Hi Richard,
this little field study may be of interest as pigs are the main scavengers in Caletones:
Frisch, Hans-Jörg & Teegen, Wolf-Rüdiger (2006): Osteologische Untersuchungen an rezenten Tierknochen aus der Küstensiedlung Caletones auf Kuba. Ein Beitrag zur Ethnoarchäologie, Leipziger online-Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie 21
download: http://www.gko.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/user_upload/historisches_seminar/02urundfruehgeschichte/Online_Beitraege/OnlBei21.pdf
Frisch, Hans-Jörg (2002): Die Siedlung Caletones auf Kuba. Beobachtungen zur Haustierhaltung und Entsorgung von Küchenabfällen. – Archäologische Informationen 25/1-2, 119-121
Best
Christian
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Am 22.03.2015 um 23:50 schrieb Richard Wright:
> Hello
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> I have tracked down two informative studies on the chewing by pigs of long bones of relatively large mammals. These are
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> HASKEL J. GREENFIELD
> Bone Consumption by Pigs in a Contemporary Serbian Village: Implications for the Interpretation of Prehistoric Faunal Assemblages.
> Journal of Field Archaeology. 1: 473-479 (1988)
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> S. D. DOMINGUEZ-SOLERA AND M. DOMINGUEZ-RODRIGO*
> A Taphonomic Study of Bone Modification and of Tooth-Mark Patterns on Long Limb Bone Portions by Suids
> Int. J. Osteoarchaeol. 19: 345–363 (2009)
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> They contain excellent illustrations of the effects of chewing by pigs
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> Does anybody know of experimental studies with additional illustrations?
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> I am also interested in case studies of forensic investigation into chewing of human bones by pigs?
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> Richard Wright
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