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The region, about 75 miles SE of Mexico City, was known for its abundance of animal fossils, and Irwin-Williams described Hueyatlaco as a "kill site" where animals were hunted and butchered. [ 4 ] Excavations were conducted via standard protocols, including securing the sites to prevent trespass or accidental disturbances . [ 5 ]
One important aspect of taphonomy is assessing how a specimen became damaged; understanding the taphonomy of a faunal assemblage can explain how and why bones were damaged. [10] One source of damage to animal bones is humans. [10]: 169 Cut marks on animal bones provide evidence for butchering.
Positioning the Bison occidentalis skeleton bones for butchering would have required a great deal of manual effort. The Olsen-Chubbuck hunters ate the tongues of the bison as they worked, given the isolated occurrences of tongue bone in the piles. It would have likely taken half a day for 100 people to butcher all of the bison. [1]
Animal sacrifice was general among the ancient Near Eastern civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia, as well as the Hebrews (covered below).Unlike the Greeks, who had worked out a justification for keeping the best edible parts of the sacrifice for the assembled humans to eat, in these cultures the whole animal was normally placed on the fire by the altar and burned, or ...
In addition to the Middle Stone Age lithics industry assemblage, the same deposit contained a hearth, charcoal fragments, burnt animal bone fragments, and faunal remains with evidence of human alteration and butchery. [4] Together, these lines of evidence point to a specialized butchery and tool-making activities over repeated short periods of ...
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At the so-called "spear horizon", referred to within the stratigraphic sequence as Schöningen 13 II-4, numerous remains (representing 20-25 individuals [2]) of butchered horses belonging to the extinct species Equus mosbachensis have been found associated with wooden spears (the famous Schöningen spears), among the oldest known wooden spears, [1] [3] other wood tools, including throwing ...
Another method of analysing the animal remains is to investigate the techniques and methods of butchering that would have been used on the ecofact. For example, if the faunal remains appear to have been butchered or sawn by hand, it is possible to link the remains to the 19th and early 20th century where this method of butchering animals for ...