*4.4. What Were the Results?*

Our research questions, tempered by the collection bias toward large animals, then led us to focus our study on sheep and goat remains from these intentional deposits. When these remains were compared among the various deposits, several statistically significant, non-random patterns of distribution were identified. Highlighting one for illustrative purposes here, it was noted that the percentage of bone elements from *right-sided* meaty longbone portions was about double the percentage from left-sided portions in the western chambers, but that this pattern was reversed among the courtyard deposits where the percentage of bone elements from *left-sided* meaty longbone portions was about double the percentage from right-sided portions.
