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
> 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 everyoneJ
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> Cheers
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> Sheryl
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