Dear Jacqui
The Icelandic Agricultural Information Service, in "The Shoppers Guide to
Icelandic Food" (1967) mention the preparation of smoked puffin, although
further details are lacking.
I also recall hearing that on St Kilda, puffins were added to porridge in
order to add flavour (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2134537.stm).
Lastly, I have read about a method of butchering small game birds that would
result in a concentration of wing elements (but with the absence of proximal
humerii). If this sounds helpful I would gladly dig out the full reference.
Best
Rob
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] puffin butchery and consumption
Hello Zooarchers,
Does anyone have any good references (or recipies) for puffin? We have a
puffin-dominated Iron Age assemblaged dominated by wing elements - does
anyone know of comparible sites? I have a student working on the material
and we have drawn a blank on any accounts of puffin preparation/butchery.
I hope you can help.
Jacqui
Jacqui Mulville (PhD)
Zooarch Listowner,
Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology,
School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff
CF10 3EU
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/archaeology/jm1/
Tel: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4247
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