The impact of salting and drying on fish bones: Preliminary observations on four marine species from Parita Bay, Panamá

Archaeofauna

Volumn 6, Issue , 1997, Pages 59-66

  Zohar, Irit ^a   Cooke, Richard ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Bone damage; Butchering method; Drying; Fish remains; Middle range theory; Panama; Preservation; Salting; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003282831     PISSN: 11326891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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