*4.2. How Were the Bones Excavated?*

The faunal remains from these deposits were collected according to standard procedures of the Biran period of excavation (cf. Wapnish and Hesse 1991). Such included hand collecting bones and storing them in paper bags and boxes marked by area, locus, square, and collection date that were later analyzed by zooarchaeologists (Wapnish and Hesse 1991; Greer 2013). No sieving was carried out, thus biasing the collection toward larger species.
