The presence of pig bones in a refuse dump from Islamic Iberia can tell you a lot about who was doing the eating back then.
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Investigador Postdoctoral, Universidad de Alicante
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Vertebrate Palaeontology PhD Candidate and Casual Academic, Flinders University
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Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Profesor de Arqueología Medieval y Posmedieval, Universidad de Granada
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