Meat Procurement Research Articles

부분육 온라인 거래소 참여 및 거래량 결정요인

To revitalize the wholesale market function, the government intends to establish an online livestock product exchange platform, promoting online trading for cuts of meat. We surveyed 110 meat processing companies nationwide to assess factors affecting the willingness to participate in online trading of cuts of meat and trading volume, using the sequence of Heckman, Logit, and Tobit models. Favorable online trading experience, short operation time, limited workforce, and minimal meat procurement boosted the willingness to participate in the online trading. High carcass auction satisfaction and distribution/sales challenges also increased the willingness to participate and transaction volume. This implies that a company's willingness to engage in the online trading of cuts of meat may be influenced by its perception of challenges stemming from a lack of experience in livestock product auction and variations in the company's size and business history.

MEAT CONSUMPTION IN UKRAINE: REALITIES AND PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT

These studies analyzed the structure of meat production, outlined the share of sales of meat and meat products produced in Ukraine. The volume of meat export and import in time dynamics was studied in detail. It was established that the meat and meat products consumption fund fully meets the needs of the domestic market. Poultry production dominates in Ukraine. In recent years, our country has turned from an importer of this type of meat into an exporter. Chicken production has a number of competitive advantages compared to other types of meat, including the shortest raw meat procurement cycle and the lowest price. As a result, in recent years, the demand for this type of meat has been steadily growing both on the domestic and global markets. In general, the positive dynamics of poultry meat production in Ukraine indicates prospects for further expansion of its export. The volume of poultry meat exports increased to 459,000 tons. The poultry industry of Ukraine suffered significant losses due to the war and active hostilities, but at the same time, exporters managed to maintain the indicators of foreign sales at a typical level. The standard of living of the population affects the meat market, as an important component of the food market of Ukraine. The most important food products include meat and meat products. It has been studied that despite the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, producers are increasing the volume of meat products despite the decline of certain industries. The structure of the meat market is undergoing restructuring. Restaurants are expanding their range of poultry dishes. The increase in consumption is due to the growth of demand and the low solvency of the population, as the most available type of meat. However, the growth of citizens' incomes will be a significant factor in increasing the consumption of meat products, which will clearly determine the need to intensify the development of the livestock industry. Prospects for further research should be implemented in the field of development of enterprises participating in the meat products market in Ukraine. Keywords: restaurants, consumption, meat, meat products, export, import.

Meat procurement strategy from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province, China

Meat procurement strategies, displaying a great variety world-widely, are ideal for examining how geography and culture shape the subsistence. We collate zooarchaeological data from 26 Neolithic and Bronze Age sites/locales in the Guanzhong region (Shaanxi Province, China), a key region of early Chinese civilization, to demonstrate the changing process of meat procurement and its associations with environmental, demographic and societal factors. Comparing the proportion of the domesticates versus wild animals, along with the proportion of the domesticated pigs versus bovids (i.e., sheep, goat, and cattle), we summarize three characteristics of the meat procurement strategy at Guanzhong. Firstly, the changing pattern of meat procurement did not follow a linear progression of shifting subsistence from hunting to husbandry, albeit involving acceleration and regression from the pre-Yangshao period to the Western Zhou dynasty. Secondly, contrasting meat procurement strategies might have been employed between central settlements and lower-ranking settlements. Thirdly, an increasing importance of domesticated bovids was evident during the pre-Zhou and Western Zhou periods. We therefore argue population size and societal form might have shaped meat procurement strategies, in addition to natural environments. Subsistence, in turn, also lays the economic foundation for social development. It was not until the pre-Zhou and Western Zhou periods, when a more stable meat procurement strategy involving utilizing a variety of the domesticates was pervasively employed in this region, that Guanzhong had gradually gained its prominence in Chinese civilization.

Meat production in Abay district of Abay region of Kazakhstan in the context of intensification of technological processes in agro-industrial complex

The goal – is to analyze modern development of meat industry in Abay district of Abay region, identify advantages and disadvantages, as well as develop a set of measures for the effective functioning of meat and meat products market. Methods – balance, monographic, statistical and economic, settlement and constructive. Results – main indicators of development of livestock sector and meat industry of the region are considered, in particular, the share of crop and livestock production in the gross output of agricultural products (services) is shown; the number of livestock and poultry in all categories of farms, including cattle, sheep and goats, horses; production in slaughter weight; dynamics of the volume of processing of meat products. A comprehensive study made it possible to identify the problems of meat sub-complex associated with technical and technological backwardness of agricultural enterprises, the presence of inefficient and inactive economic entities, low competitiveness of meat products in foreign market, and the lack of financial resources. Conclusions – to obtain a wide range of meat products in the Abay district and in the whole region, it is necessary to take effective measures by creating a strong raw mat erial base for meat processing enterprises, developing market infrastructure, intensifying the pr ocesses of using processing enterprises of their own production capacities, while enterprises that provide a high degree of depth of processing of livestock and slaughter products will prevail at the lowest cost. An important role is played by improvement of state and ma rket regulation. For these purposes, it is necessary to develop a mechanism for increasing meat procurement. The main directions for the development of relations between agricultural producers and processing enterprises are an effective system of pricing, contractual relations, expanding the network of market infrastructure that provides technical, technological and organizational management of continuous supply to the consumer.

Analysis Level of Animal Welfare Knowledge in Medan City Slaughterhouse

Slaughterhouses has a very important role in the chain system for the availability of meat procurement. This research aims to analyze the level of knowledge of animal welfare and implementing it in Medan City Slaughter House. This research was conducted at the Medan City Slaughterhouse located on Jalan Rumah Potong Hewan, Mabar Hilir Village, Medan Deli Subdistrict, Medan City, North Sumatra in August 2021. The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive research method.The results showed that the level of knowledge was already in the category of very good. The group of slaughterer respondents had the highest percentage of answer scores at 100% followed by animal controllers at 95.36% and cattle traders at 88.62%. The application of animal welfare aspects in the process of slaughtering cattle in Medan City Slaughterhouse is already in the category of very good with the percentage of conformity rate based on the regulations and provisions of Meat and Livestock Australia ranging from 80% to 100%.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ФОРМУВАННЯ СТРАТЕГІЧНИХ АЛЬТЕРНАТИВ ДЛЯ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ М’ЯСОПЕРЕРОБНОЇ ГАЛУЗІ УКРАЇНИ

The article considers the peculiarities of the formation of strategic alternatives to the meat processing of industry Ukraine. Businesses operating in the market of this industry are affected by various environmental factors. The main ones for the industry are the reduction of raw materials and great competition. Therefore, in these conditions it is necessary to have alternative ways of development or strategic alternatives. They provide a choice of many development options that allow you to achieve the planned goals, taking into account the relevant resources.The meat processing industry is developing rapidly, provides the population of Ukraine with food and has a social orientation. The state is interested in its development because it produces such products that are very popular and consumed daily. Recent years have been difficult for the industry, as it has faced a shortage of raw materials. This was due to a decrease in the number of cattle and pigs. Therefore, the population reduced the consumption of products from these resources and switched to the consumption of poultry meat. In such conditions, the following alternatives were proposed for the industry: focusing on finding other sources of raw materials; creation of own fodder base; assistance to existing or creation of new farms; formation of intersectoral consolidation in Ukraine; reorientation from assortment groups made of this raw material to groups for the production of which other raw materials are used.The second important factor influencing the development of the industry is the presence of high competition. Currently, 1,340 meat processing plants are engaged in meat procurement and processing. Among them are powerful companies that have a strong position in the market. There are also medium and small ones who find it difficult to fight leaders. But it is difficult for consumers to distinguish between products from different manufacturers because they are very similar. In these conditions, the following alternative decisions can be made: to focus efforts on maintaining its target audience by saturating the range of products with original flavors and packaging; to expand the consumer audience at the expense of those of its participants who do not yet have established views and intentions to make purchases; use the opportunities of branded trade to form a high level of consumer satisfaction with products and increase their loyalty.In order to analyze and form strategic alternatives, the company can use such marketing tools as SWOT-analysis, product / market development matrix (I. Ansoff), McKinsey matrix, etc. Their application will allow you to determine the market position and choose the right solutions.

ЧИСТКА КОЛХОЗОВ ОТ «БАЙСКО-КУЛАЦКОГО ЭЛЕМЕНТА...»: РЕПРЕССИВНАЯ ПОЛИТИКА СОВЕТСКОЙ ВЛАСТИ В ТЕЛЬМАНОВСКОМ РАЙОНЕ КАРАГАНДИНСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ В 1932-1933 ГГ.

On the basis of archival materials, the article examines some aspects of the daily life of the local population of the Telmanovsky district of the Karaganda region in 1932-1933. The article studies the policy of the Soviet government during the dispossession of kulaks, under the name "cleansing collective farms from the "kulak-bay element" in Telmanovskiy district, Karaganda region. Particular attention is paid to the repression by the authorities during meat procurement and grain procurement, the relationship between local government and the people, the results of these reforms in the demographic and economic sphere in 1933. The archive of Temirtau, including documents of the regional and district administration: decisions and decrees of the committees of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), reports of the executive committees, and documents on the eviction of bays and kulaks, directed against the bays and the kulaks. Statistical data were compiled on the quantitative composition of the district's residents after the repressions and dispossession of kulaks, as well as lists of the evicted kulak bays during this campaign. The study shows the course of events of force collectivization, that is, the transformation of collective farms in the Telmanovsky region of livestock production into grain production.

Қазақстандағы мемлекеттік астық пен ет дайындау саясаты және шаруалар көтерілістері (1928–1932 жж.)

The article examines the mechanisms and consequences of the state campaign for grain and meat procurement, which was one of the reasons for the peasant uprisings in Kazakhstan in 1929–1932. On the basis of archival documents the authors analyze the economic significance of the campaign for grain and meat procurement, their impact on the development of the agrarian sector and the methods of coercion of the peasants of the Soviet regime. The fact that the economic and political measures of the sedentary, seminomadic regions aroused the discontent of the peasants is considered in detail. On the basis of archival data, the repressions against peasants by party, Soviet, investigative and judicial bodies in Kazakhstan are analyzed.

New perspectives on Late Bronze Age lagoon sites in the South of France revealed by animal exploitation at the La Motte I site (Hérault)

At the present time, only a few Late Bronze Age sites in the French Mediterranean have yielded faunal data. The newly excavated site of La Motte I (Hérault, France) is exceptionally well preserved owing to its underwater context. The discovery of large quantities of pottery, a wattle and some wooden poles allowed the site to be dated to the Late Bronze Age IIIb (900–775 BCE). The zooarchaeological analysis of the mammalian remains has made it possible to identify the nature of butchery operations at the site. Culling profiles show herd management practices during this period and bring to light specific dietary practices. These data reveal meat procurement behaviour in this Bronze Age Mediterranean population, highlighting regular meat acquisition from domestic livestock.

Desirable Meat: The Social Context of Meat Procurement at Albert Porter Pueblo, a Great House Community in the Central Mesa Verde Region

The Albert Porter Pueblo great house, located in the central Mesa Verde region, was surrounded by numerous residential structures during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III periods. Using a variety of exploitation measures of wild game and turkeys, we test three hypotheses to see if there are meaningful similarities or differences in the faunal assemblages from the great house and the domestic households that surrounded it. Although the great house was a unique and prominent architectural feature at Albert Porter Pueblo, the faunas from the great house are generally similar to those from surrounding structures. However, there is some evidence that more meat of cottontails and turkeys was consumed in the great house compared to domestic structures during Pueblo III. Overall, all members from Albert Porter had equal access to animal food and those used in rituals and ceremonies. We explore different interpretations of social organization suggested by faunal remains.

Problems and prospects of development of meat processing manufacturings in Ukraine

Production of meat and meat products is one of the key segments of domestic processing industry. In 2018, its share in total food production in Ukraine reached 17.78% (vs. 15.93% in 2013). At the same time, the main problem holding back the development of this segment is the reduction of the raw material base for the industrial processing of meat due to the crisis in animal husbandry, especially in pig and cattle breeding. The purpose of the article is to define the problems and to outline the prospects for the development of meat processing manufacturing in Ukraine, given the current state of the domestic and foreign markets of meat raw materials (chicken, pork, beef, etc.). The meat and meat product manufacturing in Ukraine is dominated by poultry meat, which share has increased by 7.22 pp. in the last six years. Instead, the share of meat products decreased by 6.54 pp. These trends indicate the reduction of advanced processing of meat raw materials. This is largely due to the low level of operating profitability of meat product manufacturing in Ukraine – 2.6% in 2018 vs. 3.7% in 2013, while the profitability of poultry meat manufacturing reached 11.3% (vs. 9.1%). Given the latest global trends in changing consumer preferences in favor of dietary types of meat, this poultry development trend in Ukraine has great prospects, especially in regions where there are no large agricultural companies. In contrast to poultry farming, the trends in domestic pig breeding are mostly negative, due to the decrease in the number of pigs caused by outbreaks of African swine fever. An even more critical situation in Ukraine is with the production of beef and veal, which is a direct result of the cattle livestock population reduction by more than 6 times in the last 25 years, as well as of the high cost of meat procurement. The latter is caused by poor livestock feed base. To overcome this problem, it is necessary to increase the volume of domestic production of compound feeds and their components. In particular, a promising area for the development of meat processing in Ukraine is the production of animal origin feeds, the raw material for which is food waste. Integrated use of meat raw materials will ultimately increase the level of profitability of this segment of the processing industry.

Terminal Pleistocene subsistence strategies and aquatic resource use in southern Greece

In many parts of the Mediterranean Basin, the Late Glacial was a dramatic time in terms of demographic, cultural, and technological change. One region that illustrates this especially well is southern Greece, where Upper Paleolithic lifeways transitioned to the Mesolithic with the onset of the Holocene. Previous archaeological research in this area has documented an intensification of meat resources as foragers widened their diet breadth to include more low-return prey animals, eventually shifting their focus to the Mediterranean Sea. In this paper, we synthesize and expand on these previous analyses by combining new data from Kephalari Cave with two other published sites in the Argolid (Peloponnese), Franchthi Cave and Klissoura Cave 1. These three sites provide an ideal case study for examining changes in meat procurement strategies because they have overlapping Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic chronologies and are located within about 45 km of one another. We consider each of the sites within their local environmental contexts, including the contraction of the coastal plain and moving shorelines after the Last Glacial Maximum. Changes in the composition of ungulate prey track local environmental and ecological conditions. The use of low-return species supports an overall picture of resource intensification in the region over time. At Klissoura, the most inland of the three sites, small terrestrial prey increases over the course of the Upper Paleolithic, particularly in the Late Glacial, and until the site was abandoned in the Mesolithic. At both Franchthi and Kephalari, small game are abundant in all Upper Paleolithic layers, but there is no overall trend. However, fishing appears in the Upper Paleolithic (most likely the Gravettoid phase) of Kephalari and during the Epigravettian at Franchthi. Fishing increases dramatically in later layers at both sites. At Franchthi, this trend culminates in open-water fishing of large-bodied tunny in the Upper Mesolithic. Interestingly, the use of Klissoura declined at about the time that fishing became a critical part of the economy at Franchthi, and possibly Kephalari. These subsistence shifts reflect a combination of factors, including growing human populations on a regional level and local responses that included changes in mobility patterns and site use, and more diverse toolkits, as well as changes in Pleistocene shorelines that brought an additional ecosystem closer to two of the sites. These internal and external factors allowed foragers in southern Greece to successfully move into a new ecological niche at the end of the Pleistocene.

Isotopic Evidence for Long‐Distance Mammal Procurement, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA

Previous research on the prehistoric communities of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (ca. A.D. 800–1250) provides evidence of an extensive procurement system of nonlocal food and economic goods. In this paper, we use oxygen and strontium isotope analyses to establish whether animal protein followed a similar pattern. We contextualized our isotopic analyses of the archaeofaunas from recent excavations at Pueblo Bonito with data on modern faunas across an area of approximately 100,000 km2 around the site. Our results show that most archaeological deer, rabbits, and prairie dogs were obtained from >40 km away from Pueblo Bonito with the latter two likely being garden hunted. The Chuska Mountains west of Chaco Canyon and more distant San Juan Mountains to the north were the main source areas. These results closely align with previous results on architectural wood, corn, and other key resources. The importation of small game animals suggests that the local supplies could not meet the needs of the community. Long‐distance meat procurement may have been embedded within a more complex network of ritual‐goods exchange or tribute that helped to offset the transport costs. Resource depletion may have contributed to the eventual abandonment of the region during the Medieval Warm Period.

Evaluation of the Balanced Menus Challenge: a healthy food and sustainability programme in hospitals in Maryland.

The Balanced Menus Challenge (BMC) is a national effort to bring the healthiest, most sustainably produced meat available into health-care settings to preserve antibiotic effectiveness and promote good nutrition. The present study evaluated the outcomes of the BMC in the Maryland/Washington, DC region. The BMC is a cost-effective programme whereby participating hospitals reduce meat purchases by 20 % of their budget, then invest the savings into purchasing sustainably produced meat. A mixed-methods retrospective assessment was conducted to assess (i) utilization of the BMC 'implementation toolkit' and (ii) achievement of the 20 % reduction in meat purchases. Previous survey data were reviewed and semi-structured interviews were conducted. Hospitals located in the Maryland/Washington, DC region, USA, that adopted the BMC. Twelve hospitals signed the BMC in the Maryland/Washington, DC region and six were available for interview. Three hospitals in the Maryland/Washington, DC region that signed the BMC tracked their progress and two achieved a reduction in meat procurement by ≥20 %. One hospital demonstrated that the final outcome goal of switching to a local and sustainable source for meat is possible to achieve, at least for a portion of the meal budget. The three hospitals that reduced meat purchases also received and used the highest number of BMC implementation tools. There was a positive correlation between receipt and usage of implementation tools (r=0·93, P=0·005). The study demonstrates that hospitals in the Maryland/Washington, DC region that sign the BMC can increase the amount of sustainably produced meat purchased and served.

Foodways, Animal Husbandry and Nipmuc Identity: Faunal Analysis from Sarah Boston’s Farmstead, Grafton, MA, 1790–1840

This study explores the processes by which some New England Native American households incorporated animal husbandry into their subsistence practices from the seventeenth century onward, as well as the political ramifications of this adoption. Faunal remains recovered from the Sarah Boston Farmstead site, a Nipmuc household in Massachusetts (1790–1840), suggest that the inhabitants used a variety of meat procurement strategies, including the killing of domesticated livestock, hunting wild animals, and purchasing provisions from local butchery shops. Over the course of several generations, these practices became part of habitual Nipmuc practices that continued to play a role in communal cohesion.

Environment during the Middle to Late Palaeolithic transition in southern France: The archaeological sequence of Tournal Cave (Bize-Minervois, France)

Late Pleistocene deposits of Tournal Cave, southwestern France, provided several human occupations attributed to Mousterian, Aurignacian, and Magdalenian cultures. Some human remains (Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens) were identified in each unit. This study presents a detailed temporal reconstruction of habitats surrounding the cave, using various proxies based on rich large mammal assemblages and related to biological activities. The levels correlated to MIS 3 and MIS 2 are characterized by alternating carnivore, Neanderthal, and Anatomically Modern Human (AMH) occupations. Faunal exploitation was mainly oriented towards Equus caballus and Rangifer tarandus, with a significant increase in the latter prey from the last Aurignacian level onwards. The results exhibit geographic and temporal variations of reindeer and horse body size. Reindeer can be used as a suitable ecological marker, as rapid changes are correlated to environmental turnover, whereas the horse presents a different pattern and is an accurate chronological estimator. The palaeoecological results indicate a major climate change between the two Aurignacian levels. The Mousterian and the first Aurignacian levels, documenting the Middle to Late Palaeolithic transition, show high indices of specific richness and diversity of large mammals in relation with a periglacial moderate cold and wet climate. The region developed a mixed landscape and displayed a non-analogue fauna with E. caballus, R. tarandus, Cervus elaphus, Megaloceros giganteus, Bison priscus, Bos primigenius, Capra caucasica praepyrenaica, Sus scrofa and Coelodonta antiquitatis for the ungulates and Ursus spelaeus, Ursus arctos, Crocuta crocuta spelaea, Panthera leo spelaea, Panthera pardus, Lynx spelaeus, Canis lupus and Vulpes vulpes for the carnivores. The breakdown occurring in the last Aurignacian level is characterized by a change in ecological settings, with a colder and drier climate and opening of the landscape, involving shifts in seasonality, plant phenology, reindeer body size and animal population densities. This impacted habitat fragmentation and geographic distribution of populations, implying various selective pressures that were reflected in human meat procurement and dispersal events. At Tournal Cave, the late Middle/early Late Palaeolithic transition is not directly marked by significant differences in terms of faunal exploitation, due to local climate and site function, but the major environmental shift recorded is delayed. The results indicate that abrupt climate oscillations during MIS 3 contributed to the decline of Neanderthal populations, notably because of habitat fragmentation. AMHs could have generated additional stresses.

Meat-acquisition patterns in the Neolithic Yangzi river valley, China

The authors provide an overview of animal exploitation in the Chinese Neolithic, emphasising regional differences in meat procurement strategies. While the Yellow river peoples turned from hunting wild animals to the rearing of pigs, dogs, sheep and cattle during the Neolithic, the peoples of the Yangzi valley continued to rely on an abundant supply of wild creatures into their Bronze Age. Their staples were deer, fish and birds and there was a special relationship with fish that extended even to the grave.

The Chimpanzee Has No Clothes

Chimpanzee referential models for early hominid behavior have become the most common of all current approaches. In addition to chimpanzees’ close evolutionary relationship to humans, the justification for this approach is that their behaviors are complex and human‐like compared with those of other animals. An examination of four aspects of chimpanzee society that are prominent in discussions of human evolution—bipedal posture, tool use, cooperative hunting, and culture—indicates that other animals, even nonprimates, engage in analogous behaviors. Some referential models describe early hominid niches (e.g., locomotion, meat procurement) as presumably similar to those of extant great apes, but observed fossil anatomy suggests otherwise. Others attempt to explain hominid innovations with chimpanzee‐like behaviors (e.g., bipedal posture, simple tool use, social hunting) when basic evolutionary theory dictates that only differences between closely related forms explain their divergence. Although data on the great apes are crucial for origins modeling, they are too often misapplied in reference to human behavioral evolution.

The Chimpanzee Has No Clothes: A Critical Examination of Pan troglodytes in Models of Human Evolution [with Comments

Chimpanzee referential models for early hominid behavior have become the most common of all current approaches. In addition to chimpanzees’ close evolutionary relationship to humans, the justification for this approach is that their behaviors are complex and human‐like compared with those of other animals. An examination of four aspects of chimpanzee society that are prominent in discussions of human evolution—bipedal posture, tool use, cooperative hunting, and culture—indicates that other animals, even nonprimates, engage in analogous behaviors. Some referential models describe early hominid niches (e.g., locomotion, meat procurement) as presumably similar to those of extant great apes, but observed fossil anatomy suggests otherwise. Others attempt to explain hominid innovations with chimpanzee‐like behaviors (e.g., bipedal posture, simple tool use, social hunting) when basic evolutionary theory dictates that only differences between closely related forms explain their divergence. Although data on the great apes are crucial for origins modeling, they are too often misapplied in reference to human behavioral evolution.

Taphonomy and zooarchaeology of the Upper Palaeolithic cave of Dzudzuana, Republic of Georgia

AbstractWe present the results of a detailed taphonomic and zooarchaeological study of the faunal remains from the Upper Palaeolithic layers of Dzudzuana Cave, Republic of Georgia. This study presents the first carefully analysed Upper Palaeolithic faunal assemblage from the southern Caucasus and thus serves as a significant point of reference for inter‐regional studies of Upper Palaeolithic subsistence in Eurasia. A series of intra‐site taphonomic comparisons are employed to reconstruct the depositional history of the bone assemblages within the different occupational phases at the site and to investigate subsistence, meat procurement and bone‐processing strategies. Caucasian tur (Capra caucasica), aurochs (Bos primigenius) and steppe bison (Bison priscus) were the major prey species throughout the Upper Palaeolithic. Their frequencies do not change significantly over time, and nor does bone preservation vary by layer. The assemblage is characterised by significant density‐mediated biases, caused by both human bone‐processing behaviours andin situpost‐burial bone attrition. Bone marrow extraction produced large numbers of unidentified bone fragments, many exhibiting green bone fractures. The density and size of bone assemblages and the extent of fragmentation indicate that Dzudzuana Cave was repeatedly occupied by Upper Palaeolithic foragers over many years. Skeletal part representation and butchery marks from all stages of carcass processing suggest that prey occasionally underwent field butchery. Intra‐site taphonomic comparisons highlight uniform patterns of cultural and economic behaviours related to food procurement and processing strategies. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.