4.1.3. What Type of Deposits Are Represented?

Though deposits of charred material were discovered elsewhere in the precinct, these seven deposits were interpreted as the remains of eating events based on the lack of extensive burning and patterns of cut marks and chop marks associated with the preparation and consumption of meals (cf. Binford 1978, 1981; Grantham 1995, 2000; Klenck 1995). Associated artifacts, such as metal and flint blades as well as cooking pots and eating vessels, also suggested that these pits contained the remnants of meals.
