Elephant Bird Bone Chop Marks (IMAGE)

Zoological Society of London

Elephant Bird Bone Chop Marks

Caption

This chop mark would have been made with a large sharp tool. The clear straight line of the cut with no continued cracks indicate the mark was made on fresh bone and chopped into different cuts of meat.

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