Dear all,
I believe the only way to resolve the question of association of anuran remains with vessels and burials is to examine samples from the enclosing sediments of such burial contexts.
Vessel sediment contents are sometimes collected by excavators and fine-sieved but strategic collection of control samples would require the active involvement of the intersted zooarchaeologist on-site.
The paper 'Caprines and Toads' is available online at:
http://haifa.academia.edu/LiorWeissbrod/Papers/10600/Caprines_and_toads_Taphonomic_patterning_of_animal_offering_practices_in_a_Late_Bronze_Age_burial_assemblage
Cheers,
Lior
Lior Weissbrod
Post Doctoral Fellow
Zinman Institute of Archaeology
University of Haifa
Mount Carmel
Haifa, 31905
Israel
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