Use Wear and Breakage Patterns on Cow and Elephant Limb Bone Produced from Anvil Contact During Breakage Experiments

Summary

Patterns of use wear and distinctive breakage are caused when a bone is broken on an anvil surface.The use wear on cortical bone surfaces consists of high polish and linear striations. Breakage patterns can include negative cones of percussion, cone flakes, rebound flakes removed from the cortical surface and V-shaped or U-shaped projections. In sites where there is only evidence of bone processing, these features, and other distinctive breakage patterns, can help identify human activities in the absence of chipped stone tools.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 14819