Susan

You might take a look at the Hoff Store Report (SHA Special Publication
Series, No. 7, 1990) -- the chapter titled "Packed Pork and Other Foodstuffs
from the California Gold Rush" (pp. 82-86) has a good discussion on
butchering.

Anne Stoll
Statistical Research, Inc.

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> Hi
>      One of our honours students is researching the bone collection from
an
> execavation that was done of a butcher's shop in among residential houses
> from the nineteenth century. The butcher appears to have been doing his
own
> slaughtering at the site, primarily of sheep. Does anyone know of a
similar
> type of site that has been published ?
>                    Thanks
>                     Susan
>
> Susan Piddock
> Archaeology
> School of Cultural Studies
> Flinders University of South Australia
> P.O. Box 2100
> Adelaide, 5001
> South Australia
>