Cautionary Note on Edible Meat Poundage Figures
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 42 (2), 267-270
- https://doi.org/10.2307/278990
Abstract
Dissection of certain animal specimens indicated that meat poundage figures based on modern processing practices could be unreliably high.Keywords
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