Grace:
 
Such large amounts of animal bone may represent slaughtering
activities--the bone being discarded in cases where the meat was dried and
the bone discarded.  As such, this may indicate seasonality--in the
southeast the primary slaughtering was conducted in the fall and early
winter, usually after the first frost.  Closing of privies, and the like
might be tied into such activities as a way to keep such waste from being
out in the open--all a part of the spring and fall cleaning activities
which most farms cycled through.
 
Erica Sanborn,
Assistant Archaeologist,
New South Associates