Eating your tools: early butchery and craft modification of primate bones in tropical Southeast Asia · Southeast Asian Archaeology Bibliographic Database

Ref ID:	22477
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Rabett, Ryan J. Piper, Philip J.
Title:	Eating your tools: early butchery and craft modification of primate bones in tropical Southeast Asia
Date:	2012
Source:	Bones for toolstools for bone: the interplay between objects and objectives
Place of Publication:	Cambridge
Publisher:	McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Abstract:	This chapter presents preliminary observations relating to the butchery and craft modification of primate bones from late Pleistocene and early Holocene deposits in the Niah Caves, East Malaysia. An overview of the history of excavation at the site is followed by a discussion of the faunal assemblage with particular attention paid to evidence for the butchery of primates (Cercopithecidae), including remarks on the occurrence, type and placement of butchery traces. Early results suggest that primate carcasses were being processed in careful and notably selective ways. A particular feature of this processing sequence appears to have been tool production.
Date Created:	2/9/2016
Editors:	Seetah, Krish Gravina, Brad
Page Start:	131
Page End:	141
Series Title:	McDonald Institute Monographs