| Title: |
Small fragments make small differences in efficiency when rendering grease from fractured artiodactyl bones by boiling
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| Issue: |
J Archaeol Sci 30 (8) |
| Series: |
Journal of Archaeological Science
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| Volume: |
30
(8)
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| Page Start/End: |
1077 - 1084 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
Part of the conventional wisdom of modern zooarchaeology is that in order for grease to be efficiently rendered from bones by boiling, skeletal elements must be broken into very small pieces. Experimental boiling of fresh long bones (humeri, femora, tibiae) of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) reduced to various sizes indicates this is not necessarily true. No significant difference was found in the efficiency (rate) of rendering grease from bone fragments generated by hammerstone breakage (fragment maximum dimension 5cm) or from bones cut into pieces of 4, 2, or 1cm maximum dimension. All produced over 80% of their renderable grease in two-three hours of boiling. Long bones cut into three pieces comprising the complete diaphysis and two epiphyses were the least efficiently boiled; 80% of their grease was rendered in 5 hours. The small amount of grease rendered suggests that the extraction of fat-soluble trace nutrients other than lipids may be an additional reason that bone fragments were boiled. |
| Year of Publication: |
2003
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Hammerstone (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Boiling Long Bones (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Bone (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Bones (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Boiled (Auto Detected Subject) |
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Uncertain
(BIAB)
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Bones (Animal)
(BIAB)
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| Source: |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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| Created Date: |
03 Feb 2004 |
