The effect of skinning is uncertain, but it may partially account for the lower contamination in imported chicken.
These remains may represent the production of multi-component regalia, involving hide skinning and working, the production of bone/shell adornments, and other non-faunal crafting activities.
And they preach unashamedly that the poor man should submit to the skinning and fleecing which the tyrants have prepared for him.
Skinning and freezing may have contributed to reduced pathogen contamination.
There is no corroborating bone evidence of butchering or skinning, so the likelihood is that this is evidence of hide working rather than food production.
Most of the lithic use-wear evidence indicates meat and hide processing, and an almost complete jaguar skeleton recovered here, with several bones (particularly metapodials) marked by skinning, suggests hide removal.
However, our sample of butchering and skinning evidence on bone is small, and future research should focus on the question of specialized butchering and/or skinning.
Our evidence also suggests that skinning and butchering animals should be considered in light of specialized craft activities rather than simply as a domestic activity carried out by all householders.
