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Cautionary Note on Edible Meat Poundage Figures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Abstract

Dissection of certain animal specimens indicated that meat poundage figures based on modern processing practices could be unreliably high.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1977

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