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Natural Disarticulation and Bison Butchery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Andrew Hill  and
Anna Kay Behrensmeyer
Andrew Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Anna Kay Behrensmeyer
Affiliation:
Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
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Abstract

Information regarding the order of natural disarticulation in a wider variety of ungulate species than previously studied emphasizes the need for caution in claiming that any particular pattern of dismemberment is uniquely distinctive of human activity. However, it also suggests possibly distinctive features of North American Indian butchery practices on prehistoric Bison.

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 141 - 145
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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