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Whether cannibalism or defleshing, if warriors you would expect a specific age cohort.
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"The defleshing might (have) minimized the decay of the bones and their endogenous DNA," Krause explained.
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Are there just cut marks, maybe an indication of defleshing only, or were certain bones crushed to facilitate marrow extraction?
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According to some sources, Cusabo funerary practices involved defleshing of the corpse, then placement of the bones in bundles or boxes.
Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006
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In this area of the body, defleshing is less easy.
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Sometime around the beginning of the fifth millennium B.C. the Chinchorro began mummifying their dead -- eviscerating the corpses and defleshing the bones.
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Before defleshing your skins, prepare the tanning solutions which are made up of two parts, namely: a. In a pail dissolve 500 grams of powdered alum in one gallon of warm water.
1. Slaughtering 1982
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"We found a lot of Early Archaic materials from approximately 3500 B.C., which are of significant interest, including two Guadalupe tools that were used either for woodworking or the defleshing of hunted game," said Jon Dowling, CAR project archaeologist.
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"We found a lot of Early Archaic materials from approximately 3500 B.C., which are of significant interest, including two Guadalupe tools that were used either for woodworking or the defleshing of hunted game," said Jon Dowling, CAR project archaeologist.
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Cutting grass, sectioning tubers, defleshing carcasses, and perhaps even woodworking - two million years ago Genius: The Modern View
Neuroanthropology 2009
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