Hi. I published an article many years ago on the issue:
Greenfield, H. J.
1989 Bone Consumption by Pigs in a Contemporary Serbian Village: Implications for the Interpretation of Prehistoric Faunal Assemblages. Journal of Field Archaeology 15(3):473-479.
Best
Haskel
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Dear All,
I have been working on this issue for some time, conducting actualistic experiments with pigs/dingoes in Australia. Some of the pig data has been published in another form in EA. The full reference is:
Fillios, M. 2011.In press. Testing the impact of environmental zone on experimental faunal models. Environmental Archaeology 16(2): 111-121.
The remaining data (which will focus solely on this issue), should be out within the year, but please feel free to contact me off list with any questions/comments, etc.
Best wishes,
Melanie
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On 3/09/12 4:45 PM, "[log in to unmask]"
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> Sheryl, I have to wonder whether we ever see any pig-chewed bone. My
> experience with actual pigs is that if something goes in the front
> end, it never comes out again, so that everything et by porky goes
> through porky's digestive tract. The dog by contrast takes time to
> savor his bone, and I have many cattle and ovicaprine limb bones at
> Vindolanda that are classic dog products in the sense that they look
> like the chewed ends of old cigars. Nonetheless I too would be
> interested if anyone could post a photo or make me aware of literature
> showing a bone that a pig had gnawed. -- Deb Bennett
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>> Hi everyone! Firstly thank you to everyone who supplied me with
>> articles on bones going through the digestive track of animals (and
>> humans!). They were very useful. If anyone would like me to send
>> through references I have, please let me know. I do have some of the
>> actually papers as well. Today I was hoping if anyone could direct me
>> on literature about the difference in pig and dog attrition marks on
>> bones. I have a site with a lot of attrition but I wasn't too sure
>> how to identify pig from dog because I do not have any images of pig
>> chewed bone.
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>> Any help would be much appreciated! And happy spring/autumn to
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