Szakács Sándor szerk.: A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 1990-1991 (Budapest, 1991)

TAKÁCS ISTVÁN: The history of pig (Sus scrofa dorn L.) butchering and the evidence for singeing on subfossil teeth

Fig.3: Qeaning the carcass by scraping after singeing (photo: Mrs. M. Bodnár) Fig.4: Deformations caused by singeing on the teeth of modem pigs /photo: I.

Takács/ third incisors were slightly burnt, while the second incisors were more burnt. These latter were blackly discolored as well. The crowns of the canines were burnt and chipped. In the lower toothrow, the right first decidious incisor covered the eurpting first permanent incisor so that it remained intact. The second incisors, on the other hand, are rather heavily burnt, the left third decidious incisor suffered minor burning, while no damage is apparent on the right side counterpart of this tooth. Crowns of the canines are split, especially on the left side. Of the bones neither the maxilla nor the mandible display deformation or marks of burning. The other skull (Hungarian Agricultural Museum, Inventroy number: 76.2.1-2) came from an eight months old female from the same litter (Fig. 5). The decidious first upper incisor was heavily burnt, the permanent teeth, however remained unaltered. Among other teeth of the upper tooth row, the right