{"id":593,"date":"2010-07-03T14:23:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/?p=593"},"modified":"2010-07-03T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T21:27:09","slug":"bone-from-the-latrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/2010\/07\/bone-from-the-latrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone from the Latrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are finding many animal bones in the sink (latrine) from Block 8 being excavated this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Two of these bones are from a cow, the radius and ulna.\u00c2\u00a0 In the pictures below, you can see one end (the proximal end of the ulna) shows a growth cap having yet to seal and the other ends of both bones show a wonder saw cut marks.\u00c2\u00a0 We have many discussions at the site on why the prisoners were depositing so many bones into the latrine.\u00c2\u00a0 The garbage was carted out each day from the prison, so it was not due to needing to get rid of the waste.\u00c2\u00a0 As we get deeper into the latrine, I expect we will be recovering much more bone.<\/p>\n

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Click on this image to see the entire bonesHere is the growth cap for the ulnaThe distal ends of these bones have been cut with a saw, part of the butchering process.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The growth cap for the ulna<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The distal ends of these bones have been cut during butchering.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are finding many animal bones in the sink (latrine) from Block 8 being excavated this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Two of these bones are from a cow, the radius and ulna.\u00c2\u00a0 In the pictures below, you can see one end (the proximal end of the ulna) shows a growth cap having yet to seal and the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}