Taphonomy (Other Keyword)

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Age (Mortality) Profiles As a Means of Distinguishing Hunted Species from Scavenged Ones in Stone Age Archaeological Sites (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard G. Klein.

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Analysis of a Human Skeleton From 14RY302 Riley County, Kansas (1966)
DOCUMENT Citation Only W. M. Bass. P. S. Willey.

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Analysis of the Human Skeletal Material From Burial Mounds In North Central Kansas (1969)
DOCUMENT Citation Only T. W. Phenice.

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Anthropogenic Thermal Alteration of Marine Bivalves, Recrystallization, and Isotope Integrity (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Larsen.

Archaeologists have given little direct attention to the taphonomic effects of cooking methods for marine invertebrates, particularly the effect on shell mineralogy. Various methods of heating and steaming shellfish directly in the shell are recorded as traditional for Northwest Coast peoples and the shell samples at the Tse-Whit-Zen Village site in Port Angeles, Washington State, contain many specimens that visually appear to be thermally altered. This type of heat exposure has been shown...


An Application of Geospatial Technology to the Collection and Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Hall. Samantha Mitchell. Patrick Lewis.

Documenting the spatial distribution of scattered and commingled skeletal elements is an important aspect of forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology. While existing methods of documentation may effectively represent scattered and commingled human skeletal remains, they do not facilitate further spatial analysis that may be useful in reconstructing taphonomic processes. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have recently been leveraged as a method of inventorying human remains, but their capacity...


Application of Neutron Activation Analysis to the Study of Element Concentration and Exchange in Fossil Bone (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Badome. R. M. Farquhar.

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Approche expérimentale de la fracturation des os des membres de grands mammifères (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J-P Brugal. A Defleur.

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Aproximación experimental al procesado de carcasas de lepóridos durante el Epipaleolitico. El caso de la Balma del Gai (Moia, provincia de Barcelona, España) (2011)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lluís Lloveras. Marta Moreno-García. Jordi Nadal. Pilar García Argüelles. Alícia Estrada.

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Archaeological Investigations Near Mobridge, South Dakota (1961)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David A. Baerreis. John E. Dallman.

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Archaeological Significance of Rabbit-Raptor Interactions in Southern California (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryan Scott Hockett.

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Archaeology and Physical Anthropology of the Gahagan-Lipe Site With Comments On Colorado Woodland Mortuary Practices (1972)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. D. Scott. T. G. Birkedal.

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Archaeology of Grove Reservoir, 1969 (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. D. Reynolds.

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The Archaeology of West Point, Seattle, Washington, 4,000 Years of Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Land Use in Southern Puget Sound Volume 1, Part 2 (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn L. Larson. Dennis E. Lewarch.

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Assessing differential fragmentation of mammal bone: a new proxy (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Redding. Andrea Poli.

Relative bone density has been utilized as a proxy for differences in survivability among mammal bones during pre- and post-depositional fragmentation/destruction processes. Since bone remodels during an animal’s lifetime to resist directional forces and cancellous bone forms patterns of trabeculae oriented in directions to compensate for forces exerted on the bone, I think that estimates of density of a bone are an inadequate proxy for survivability. In an attempt to develop a new proxy for...


A Bayesian Solution to the Controversy over the Identification of Bone Surface Modification in Paleoanthropology (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Curtis Marean. Jacob Harris. Jessica Thompson. Kiona Ogle.

Bone surface modification (BSM) remains a primary source of taphonomic inference in paleontological and archaeological contexts. However long-standing debates in BSM studies have undermined the utility of this approach. We use an objective machine-based learning algorithm rooted in Bayesian probability theory designed to quantify the level of uncertainty associated with a formal assignment of agent to individual BSM. Our multivariate Bayesian model, trained on large assemblages of...


Bioarchaeology and Looting: A Case Study from Sudan (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Kinkopf. Jess Beck.

Disturbing the dead has been considered a criminal activity in the Nile Valley since the trial of Egyptian tomb robbers in 1100 BCE. Looting is one of the most destructive forces at archaeological sites; grave robbing, in particular, leaves human remains and cultural heritage irreparably damaged. During 2007-2008, the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition (OINE) worked to identify, record, and preserve important archaeological sites that have since been destroyed by the Merowe Dam. Al-Widay, a...


Bones of Ol Pejeta: Neotaphonomic and Ecological Survey, BONES (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin Kovarovic.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The remains of fossil animals represent an abundant dataset by which to address a variety of important questions relating to human evolution, including the ecological conditions in which our hominin ancestors evolved. However, because of the multitude of processes that modify or even remove remains from the fossil record, analytical techniques that utilize them cannot assume that the once living...


Bones Wearing Bow Ties: Differential Preservation in Funerary Taphonomy (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanna K. Suckling.

The skeletal remains excavated from Scott Cemetery were well preserved while, in contrast, coffin and textile remains were generally poorly preserved. A soil pH test was conducted, with the sandy soil being an alkaline 7.8. The well preserved bone, adipocere formation, and poor textile preservation reflect established literature on the effects of alkaline soils. Burials with a high degree of roots, likely from remains of a tree that had grown through the grave shafts, were less preserved than...


Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lewis R. Binford.

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A Brief Report of the Faunal Remains from Site 18CV31, Calvert County, Maryland (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Otter.

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Burial Practices of the Teuchitlán Tradition and Changes Through Time: A taphonomic Approach (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Naomi Ripp.

Are there changes in burial practices of the Teuchitlán Tradition over time, and can any of these potential changes be identified? The data used in this analysis of burial practice was gathered from the 45 Teuchitlán Tradition burials housed at the Centro Interpretativo Guachimontones in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, Mexico. The osteology collection spans from the Late Formative Tequila II phase (350 B.C – 100 A.D) through the Late Postclassic Atemajac II phase (1400-1600). The analysis of the burials...


Butchering and Marrow Fracturing As a Taphonomic Factor in Archaeological Deposits (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nanna Noe-Nygaard.

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Butchery and Natural Disarticulation (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Hill.

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Cannibalism in the Neolithic (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola Villa. Others.

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Case of the Itinerant Bone: the Role of Sedimentological and Geochemical Evidence (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only L. A. Pavlish. P. W. Alcock.

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