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DOCUMENT Full-Text Marit Bovee.

Small mammal remains, rodents, lagomorphs and insectivores, are commonly found within archaeological sites. However, presence does not equate to cultural use. Small mammals can become part of the archaeological record because of natural death, pitfalls, raptors and mammalian carnivores; as well as human use. Here these processes are compared and three main criteria are suggested for differentiating the cultural from non-cultural processes – environmental, archaeological context, and bone...