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X.Elisabeta Berendi: Archaeozoological Description of the Faunal Remnants

fa. Besides these few fragments and smaller bones the interesting thing is the huge amount of Canid bones, coming from at least 5 different individuals of different ages - there are bones of juvenile dogs, subadults and adults at the same time, in about the same percentage. As expected, cranial bones are very broken, a few teeth are conserved better, and mostly limb bones are more or less complete. Although this is very unusual at this stage, no other uncommon thing appears: no marks, no burns and no sign of eventual butchering. One left femur of an adult is different though in structure: while all the other bones have the same level of weathering, this one looks much better, maybe fresher, maybe even boiled. It has a cutting-mark on the distal part, no conclusions should be drawn however based on this one, though usually it means that the meat was cut down from it.

Pic. 4: left femur of Canis familiáris from Cx4 (upper) compared to an average sized and structured right femur bone coming from that particular pit

Cxl3: pit defined as ritual, contained more unidentified fragments and splinters, a fragment of cattle rib, some pig bones (a rib, a canine, a mandible fragment, a basisphenoid and a scapula with cutting marks), an Ovicaprinae mandible that was chewed and slashed, and 2 dog bones (maxillar bone fragment and a pelvis fragment). No indication about these bones having been ever connected to each other, thus the pit shows no ritual characteristics from the archaeozoological point of view.

Cxl4: In the archaeological description from the site a cranium of an Ovis aries was mentioned. Correction is needed, because there is only a Sus scrofa cranium in the

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