07/2025 - Adventures in taphonomy: Experimental Zooarchaeology

We had wonderful weather for the week-long experimental zooarchaeology course run by Dr. Linda Amos and Prof. Makarewicz focusing on how processing animal carcasses for meat, grease and fat leave specific taphonomic signatures on bone. Today we ran experiments testing the conditions under which bone burns and becomes calcined, and how varying volumes of bone grease and fat in bones might also affect the burning process.