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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AB</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Archaeologia Baltica</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-5520</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-5520</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">12_046-056_DAUGNORA_GIRININKAS</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Butchery in the Early Bronze Age (Kretuonas 1C settlement data)</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Daugnora</surname>
            <given-names>Linas</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:daugnora@lva.lt">daugnora@lva.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_000">Veterinary Academy</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Girininkas</surname>
            <given-names>Algirdas</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:algis@post.skynet.lt">algis@post.skynet.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_001">Klaipėda University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>12</volume>
      <fpage>46</fpage>
      <lpage>56</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>25</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>25</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>30</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2009</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>03</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2009</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2009</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Analysis of the osteological and archaeological material discovered at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Kretuonas 1C suggests that the settlement’s hunted game and reared animals were slaughtered within the settlement, not far from the dwellings. We analyse the butchering technology of the Early Bronze Age based on Kretuonas 1C’s osteological material. The tools used for butchering and the macroscopic analysis of the slaughtered artiodactyls’ axial skeleton and long bones enabled an assessment of split bone in the butchering area, as well as of chop and cut marks acquired during the butchering process.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>butchering technology</kwd>
        <kwd>Kretuonas 1C</kwd>
        <kwd>Early Bronze Age</kwd>
        <kwd>East Lithuania</kwd>
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