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Late with it again... but in response to Ian Baxter's original suspicion of pig chewing (and Umberto's call for onlist responsses), stuff on pig tooth marks in: Berryman, H. E. 2002. "Disarticulated pattern and tooth mark artifacts associated with pig scavenging of human remains: A case study," in Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory and Archaeological Perspectives. Edited by W. Haglund and M. Sorg, pp. 487-495. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. Although also another interesting short note in: Galdikas, B. M. F. 1978. Orangutan death and scavenging by pigs. Science 200:68-70. In my own experience of experiments with carcasses and scavengers (including feral pigs), pigs can be very significant as scavengers but aren't big bone chewers. I.e., they aren't big bone modifiers, despite having an enormous potential for being assemblage modifiers, if you know what I mean. Oliver Brown ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.