Even under the best conditions, it's not something that a novice would be successful at. I've seen 'Real Hunters' try it and fail.
Skeletal remains are a different story -- especially the pelvis, which could easily be broken into two halves.
You are as full of sh!t as a goose, and I really wish you could give it a very long rest.
I did not say I would be able to do it. I did not say YOU, or the average Joe, would be able to do it.
Somebody, however, was able to do it, for it was done.
I also did not say that it was cut up while still very fresh, necessarily, but probably was cut up while still fresh enough to hold together as a leg/ankle/foot unit, and not be dripping small pieces about. IMO. Or maybe it WAS rotten, and WAS dripping.
Like the funeral home ad, "remains to be seen."
Why is it, always, that so many wish I would shut up, without saying where I am wrong? Surely you admit this dismemberment DID occur?