Variability in Faunal Assemblages: The Influence of Hunting Skill, Sharing, Dogs, and Mode of Cooking on Faunal Remains at a Sedentary Kalahari Community

Of Buffalo and Butchers: Coupling Traditional Procurement Studies with Taphonomic Analyses to Explore Intensive Wild Animal Processing Patterns at Two Early Iron Age Sites in the Kruger National Park

“…A similar dearth of usual cooking activities is evident at Le6 and Le7 in the burning. What burning that is present-most commonly manifest as scattered patches of brown or black burning on the long bones-may be indicative of occasional roasting and/or marrow warming (e.g., GiffordGonzález 1989 ;Kent 1993 ;Orton 2012 ). However, the scarcity of burning suggests that neither of these were activities regularly practised.…”

“…In the warm climate of the KNP, preservation processes would have to be started very quickly to prevent spoilage (Friesen and Stewart 2013 ). Additionally, as long-distance transport may have been a crucial factor in decisions at such a kill site, it is also likely that meat would have been filleted from the bone simply because of weight issues (e.g., Bunn et al 1988 ;Grayson 1989 ;Driver 1990 ;Gifford-González 1993 ;Kent 1993 ;Henrikson 2003 ;Lupo 2006 ).…”

“…Any portions that were eaten at the site during the larger processing activities may still display cooking damage. This type of low level, on-site consumption is highly likely, as the processing of the many large animals at Le6 and Le7 would have taken considerable time (e.g., Kent 1993 ;Lupo 2006 ). There are examples of occasional cooking (particularly roasting, as it is faster than boiling [Kent 1993 ]) and long bone marrow extraction at processing sites (e.g., Frison 1970 ;Bunn et al 1988 ;Kent 1993 ;Bamforth 2011 ), just as seen at Le6 and Le7.…”

Zooarqueologia dos grupos horticultores amazônicos no Rio Paraná inferior

“…Esta elevada redução e fragmentação poderia explicar também a baixa integridade geral que presentam, particularmente, as unidades correspondentes à região axial, característica que foi observada em contextos etnoarqueológicos nos quais se emprega este método de cocção para o consumo final das presas (ver exemplos em Kent, 1993;O'Connell et al, 1988;Oliver, 1993). A informação até aqui apresentada permite supor a existência de pautas de consumo que implicaram no processamento intensivo das presas.…”

Reassessing Marine Fishery Intensification in Southeast Queensland

“…His own and other ethnoarchaeological research has established that the remains of small-bodied animals such as fish are especially vulnerable to modification by dogs, with documented losses of up to 97% of skeletal elements (e.g. Hudson 1993;Jones 1986;Kent 1981Kent , 1993Lyon 1970;Walters 1984Walters , 1985.…”