Syd Lloyd
This site used to be someone’s home, and everyone knows the best thing to do in one’s home (other than sleep) is eat good food with family. As such, evidence of these meals can sometimes be found on site. This evidence can come in many forms: organic residues on cookware, (rarely) preserved organic remains, and processed or burnt bone fragments. On this site, in came in the form of a processed bone piece.
The bone pictured above is a slice of long bone (likely the tibia). This slice of bone was clearly not made by erosion, so why does it look like this, and what does it tell us?
Well, right off the bat, we can tell that this cut was caused by human processing of meat. The hind quarters of an animal (likely pig, cow, or sheep) would have been sliced up with a saw, bone and all, and served up as a steak.
The distinct hole in the center of the bone slice is pretty clear evidence of marrow consumption, so it is fairly safe to assume that these steaks may have been served bone-in, similar to the picture above.