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Butchering
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Published 2004
The word “butcher,” from the French boucher, dating back to the thirteenth century, is synonymous with slaughtering and meatpacking. Butchering entails dismembering animals and fowl and salvaging their parts for sale or consumption.
As evidenced by 300,000-year-old artifacts in Tornalba, Spain, Cro-Magnons pioneered butchering tools. The first butchering tools discovered in America belonged to the Clovis culture of ancient New Mexico (11,000 BCE). Early natives butchered primarily bison and turkey as diet staples until cattle were introduced in the 1500s by the Spanish and then by the British.
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