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Observations on the Butchering Technique of Some Aboriginal Peoples No. 2*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Theodore E. White
Theodore E. White*
Affiliation:
River Basin Surveys, Lincoln, Nebraska
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In a brief report, which was read before the 8th Conference for Plains Archeology by George Metcalf, 1 attempted to reconstruct the procedure by which the carcass of an antelope was prepared for food. The inferences thus drawn were based upon the ratio of the various elements to each other and to the greatest number of individuals represented, as well as the location of the breaks or cuts in the bones. Since the antelope is one of the smaller food animals and could be moved to a convenient butchering place, the question immediately posed itself: “How would size affect the butchering technique since a bison must necessatily be butchered where it is killed?“

The bison bone which provides the basis for this study was collected during the excavation of two archaeological sites near Pierre, South Dakota. The Dodd site was a multi-component village, but there was evidence of only a single cultural complex at the Phillips Ranch site (Lehmer, 1952).

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American Antiquity , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , October 1953 , pp. 160 - 164
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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