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It is commonly held in the existing literature that prehistoric peoples were compelled to kill off an abnormally high proportion of their livestock in autumn because of a lack of winter fodder. There is literary evidence for autumn killing in several European localities (n. 1). It is therefore a plausible assumption that earlier cultures are hardly less likely to have been more successful in overcoming this difficulty. This article is concerned to examine whether this assumption is valid.The inference generally made about autumn killing rests almost entirely on Watson’s report on the Skara Brae bones (n. 2). By the use of Watson’s method such a claim may also be made for the Old Sleaford sheep, and this is shown here. But there are grounds for supposing that such a claim is methodologically unjustified, and we have endeavoured to set out a method by which such claims may be tested.
Title: Autumn Killing
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It is commonly held in the existing literature that prehistoric peoples were compelled to kill off an abnormally high proportion of their livestock in autumn because of a lack of winter fodder.
There is literary evidence for autumn killing in several European localities (n.
1).
It is therefore a plausible assumption that earlier cultures are hardly less likely to have been more successful in overcoming this difficulty.
This article is concerned to examine whether this assumption is valid.
The inference generally made about autumn killing rests almost entirely on Watson’s report on the Skara Brae bones (n.
2).
By the use of Watson’s method such a claim may also be made for the Old Sleaford sheep, and this is shown here.
But there are grounds for supposing that such a claim is methodologically unjustified, and we have endeavoured to set out a method by which such claims may be tested.
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