The utilisation of carnivore scavenging evidence in the interpretation of a protohistoric French pit burial

摘要: Abstract Scavenging is one of the main taphonomic changes that bone assemblages undergo. This paper presents specific data on modification by canids from French archaeological site Duisans ‘La Seche-Epee,’ dating Tene A' period (500–400 BC). Anthropological description and analysis two incomplete male skeletons found in a pit allows us to document postmortem alteration bodies canid scavengers poses several questions about nature deposit. The morphology these marks, which are sometimes similar antemortem lesions, disarticulation dispersal anatomical parts crucial elements need be accurately described accounted for or forensic contexts. evidence violent death secondary treatment cadavers can interpreted as either an opportunistic votive burial, actual sacrifice with ritual pattern, more traditionally, deviant deposit individuals were deprived funerals exposed scavengers.