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Until that was done, it would not be possible to see essential details of the taphonomy of the bones or to be confident that the age and size of the bones were accurately recorded. First, therefore, with help of the curators of the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, we arranged for all the bones to be washed. History of the project In 1991 we originally approached the investigation of the Durrington Walls’ bones with independent and different aims: one of us (UA) wanted to use the pig bones to analyze problems of biometric variability in different ages, sexes and populations and the other (DS) was interested in the implications of some unusual features of the animal bones which had been reported both by Harcourt (1971a) and also by Richards & Thomas (1984, 206).
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