My thanks to those who provided helpful information, on and off list.
When I originally posted, I was preparing myself to look at what I was told was a human bone that had marks of chewing by a pig.
Alas, when I examined the bone, it turned out not to be human and not to have been chewed.
I am sure many of you have had the same sort of experience!
Richard
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Hello
I have tracked down two informative studies on the chewing by pigs of
long bones of relatively large mammals. These are
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)
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)
They contain excellent illustrations of the effects of chewing by
pigs
Does anybody know of experimental studies with additional
illustrations?
I am also interested in case studies of forensic investigation into
chewing of human bones by pigs?
Richard Wright
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