Dear colleagues,
I have two questions for you.
First, I am looking for parallels to an intriguing find from Flanders. In a Late Bronze Age pit, nearly 5 kgs of heavily fragmented calcined bone from mostly cattle and some pig were found. It looks like a complete cow and a complete pig could be represented. The bones were found together with charcoal, unburned pottery, loomweights and burned loam. Unburned bones are not preserved in this region, so may have been present originally. Has anyone encountered anything similar?
And then another question about burned bones on Bronze Age sites: I have recently worked on an Assemblage of animal bones from a Bronze Age site in the Republic of Moldova, where about 10% of the bones were burned (black or grey, not calcined). I have not yet come across sites with such a high percentage of burned bones, but then I have mostly worked on later periods. So I was wondering how much burned bones other people come across, and whether my site is unusual or not.
Best wishes,
Maaike Groot
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