A recent development in anthropology involves examination of living human populations in an attempt to better understand the ?ormationprocesses?that create archaeological remains. An ethnologist and an archaeologist collaborated in the observation and analysis of procurement,butchering and distribution of moose among a groofu pc ontemporary Athapaskan (Chipewyan) Indians in northwestern Saskatchewan in 1977.Subtleties in the behavior of one particular hunting party illustrate the complexity and variability of skeletal and anatomical spatial distributions accompanyingvarious stages in processing, distributing and consuming a moose (Alres alces rmdersoni). Variables such as seasonality, proximity to amajor settlement, transportation technologys, exual division of labor andi deational factors heavily influence the formationo f archaeo-faunal remainswithin several components of a regional settlement system.