The 24,000-Year-Old Bones Found In A Yukon Cave — And The Cut Marks That Pushed Humans In North America Farther Back In Time
The caribou pelvis — the other major dated specimen from the 2017 study — also tells a specific anatomical story.
The pelvis is associated with major muscle groups of the hindquarters — some of the most meat-rich areas of a large animal — and with the tendons that connect those muscles to the axial skeleton.
Cut marks on the caribou pelvis in specific locations are consistent with defleshing — the stripping of muscle from the bone surface — and with dismemberment — the separation of the hindquarters from the rest of the carcass at the sacro-iliac joint.
These are not random marks.
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