hi!
I would like to share the next idea. Last weeks I have been comment with colleague Stuart Fedel that the birds identified in prehistoric sites commonly does not show cultural marks (cut-marks, burn, etc.). However, he sends this comment:
"Last night, I saw something interesting. I was watching a DVD of a little-known movie from 1974, "The White Dawn." It's about 3 whalers who are stranded in the eastern Arctic in 1896 and live there with the local Inuit. In one scene, one of them goes goose-hunting with the native people. When they come back to the camp, he gives the killed geese to the village leader. This man takes a goose, and 4 or 5 of the Inuit grab the bird and they all pull it apart. Obviously, this form of butchery will leave no cut marks. If Paleoindians behaved the same way, it may be very difficult to demonstrate predation on birds in many cases.
Stuart
Finally, we thought that “slaughtering” method could be shows cracks, fractures o deformations on bone. Also, I consider that it could be applied to micromammals.
Someone has seen something similar or have some data about this? Any comment are welcome.
Thanks in advance
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Eduardo Corona-M.
Laboratorio de Arqueozoologia,
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Moneda 16, Col. Centro.
Mexico, 06060, D.F.
Mexico.
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