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Coprolitic

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cop·ro·lite  (kpr-lt)
n.
Fossilized excrement.

copro·litic (-ltk) adj.


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LeBlanc, Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999), simply ignore the logical possibilities of many other kinds of violent behavior to produce the skeletal and coprolitic evidence trumpeted as demonstrations of cannibalism, and instead blithely assume a relation to expansive warfare.
The identification of coprolitic material: a chemical method of confirming the faecal origin of suspected coprolites, Proceedings of Archaeological Science Conference, York, 1991.
 
 
 
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