Zooarchaeology

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Across
  1. 3. package of traits that commonly appears in domesticated animals
  2. 5. head to tail
  3. 6. evidence of cooking, cremation, and waste disposal
  4. 9. the shaft of long bones
  5. 12. mammal long bones contain fat that can be exploited
  6. 13. MNI
  7. 14. cutmarks but absence of cutmarks could indicate experience
  8. 16. specimen of bone, tooth, or antler than can be assigned to an anatomical position on the animal skeleton
  9. 17. some skeletal parts are more likely to survive in the archaeological record
  10. 18. low food utility elements are often removed prior to transport of animal from kill to occupation site
Down
  1. 1. closer and farther to the axial system
  2. 2. study of animal remains from archaeological contexts
  3. 4. evidence of scavenging, feeding of domestic dogs, rodent activity
  4. 7. NISP
  5. 8. closer and further away from the central line
  6. 10. index value of how much food is associated with a skeletal parts
  7. 11. aspect of an element
  8. 15. the rounded ends of long bones