The Bones from Hindby Votive Fen

Delicate Problems of Interpretation

Abstract

There is a great difficulty in distinguishing between sacred and profane bone assemblages. It is therefore necessary to study the bones from the Hindby votive fen from as many angles as possible. One starting point for this analysis is the taphonomic processes that have affected the bones before and after deposition. In the interpretation it is important, however to set the bone remains in their contemporary environmental and archaeological context.