couldn't be a case of differential preservation?

basedowm schrieb:
> I had a paleozoologist specializing in wild mammalia look this over (in
> consultation with an environmental zoologist) -  and she looked for evidence
> of carnivore activity and didn't find any. She had several arguments against
> this which I can ask her to write up and post either here or on the excavation
> website. The feet may have been disarticulated (as a result of skinning) --
> the bones were so small they had to be fine-sieved out of the fill. We could
> only be sure that the skull/jaw was articulated -- for the long bones it was a
> reasonable assumption given their deposition. Smaller elements were
> distributed throughout the fill.
>
> I thought of this one too - that it was a buried pet that had been devored by
> a dog or something similar, having come across similar, though not identical
> (I've never seen all of the torso gone with no damage or disarray to the other
> skeletal parts) remains in a non-archaeological context before.
>


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