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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> 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
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>> 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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