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Anglo-Americans tend to saw bones apart, while Hispanics cut the meat off
the bone with knives. The Chinese butcher animals differently than others
(the best example I know is how they cut up chickens).
In Spanish Colonial sites, we find that the people not only cut the meat off
the bones, but they also removed the marrow and/or smashed up the bones and
boiled them to make manteca (lard).
Apart from animal bones, other ethnicity markers are scarce in 18th century
Spanish Colonial sites. For example, here at the San Diego Presidio, we know
that a servant of the commander's was a Baja California native, but have not
found anything to differentiate him from anyone else.
Anita Cohen-Williams
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