Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology
by L. Antonio Curet, Shannon Lee Dawdy, and Gabino La Rosa Corzo
by L. Antonio Curet, Shannon Lee Dawdy, and Gabino La Rosa Corzo
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Subsistence of Cimarrones / 173<br />
9.8. Distribution of burn marks by site<br />
One of the most <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g pieces of evidence about human activities that<br />
can be obta<strong>in</strong>ed from faunal rema<strong>in</strong>s is butcher<strong>in</strong>g or cutt<strong>in</strong>g marks. Of the<br />
total of 840 bones identi¤ed anatomically, 83 (10 percent) presented this type<br />
of modi¤cation. Figure 9.9 shows the proportion of the types of marks <strong>in</strong><br />
the sample. The two sites with the largest number of bones with butcher<strong>in</strong>g<br />
marks were Cimarrón 1 with 12 and La Cachimba with 48. With<strong>in</strong> the different<br />
types of butcher<strong>in</strong>g marks, fractures and cuts <strong>in</strong>tended to fracture the<br />
bones were most prom<strong>in</strong>ent, followed by evidence of disarticulation and de-<br />
®esh<strong>in</strong>g, and lastly those related to portion cuts.<br />
DISTRIBUTION OF FAUNAL REMAINS WITHIN<br />
THE FLOOR PLAN OF THE SITES<br />
A characterization of the modes of meat consumption by groups that occupied<br />
these natural shelters dur<strong>in</strong>g the ¤rst half of the n<strong>in</strong>eteenth century can<br />
be obta<strong>in</strong>ed from the distribution of faunal rema<strong>in</strong>s <strong>in</strong>side the sites. With this<br />
purpose <strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>d, the spatial locations of the faunal rema<strong>in</strong>s were recorded<br />
and correlated to <strong>in</strong>dividual bones and the species they represented. 6 This sys-
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