In a message dated 8/28/2007 5:54:06 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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Since  the records show these people buying eggs, I am assuming they were 
not  raising chickens in their back yards.  So I'm trying to figure out 
if  the low proportion of chicken in the diet was because of the urban  
setting, the cultural background, a sign of the times, or what?   Thank 
you all for the leads so far...
Meli



Ah, chicken eggs. Now that raises an intriguing challenge: how do you  
meaningfully quantify broken chicken eggs and draw interpretation from the data?  
The Ballast Point Whaling Station and Chinese Fishing Camp yielded small  
fragments of broken egg shells, some of which were not white. Many of the egg  
shells were brownish with light blue dots, which I have learned are wild birds.  
Even some of the "white" egg shells are not necessarily domesticated bird. We  
found more of the colored egg shells in the Chinese trash pit and hypothesized  
they were raiding wild bird nests in the steep cliffs of Point Loma. Any 
ideas  on how to make sense of egg shell counts and weights?
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.



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