Interestingly, there are #Neolithic contexts and even physical traces on #bones which could hint at, as Hodder & Meskell put it in their 2011 article in Current Anthropology 52(2), "a concern for the processes of #bodily #articulation or #disarticulation".

http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/sites/default/files/pdf/class_text_136.pdf