Taphonomy (Other Keyword)

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Supplementary Report On the Skeletal Material From the Woodruff Ossuary 14PH4 (1967)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William M. Bass.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Tafonomia experimental aplicada á Antropología Forense: implicaçóes para a compreensăo dos registros arqueológicos (2011)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Teresa Ferreira. Eugénia Cunha.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Taphonomic analysis of the small mammal assemblage of Hayonim E:implications for paleoecology of the southern Levant during MIS 6 (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam Belmaker. Ekaterina Sevastakis.

This study presents the taphonomic history of the small mammal assemblage of Hayonim E, Israel, and compares it to those of other Middle Paleolithic (MP) sites. Levantine paleoecological changes during the MP have implications for hominin dispersal into the region. It has been suggested that a comparison of faunal assemblages from Hayonim (160–130 Kya), Qafzeh (120–90 kya) and Amud (75–45 kya) indicate a shift between glacial and interglacial fauna which mirror dispersals by Neanderthals and...

Taphonomic and Archeological Aspects of Massive Mortality Processes in Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) Caused by Winter Stress in Southern Patagonia (2008)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J B Belardi. D Rindel.

Taphonomic and Ecologic Information Form Bone Weathering (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna K. Behrensmeyer.

Taphonomic and Ecological Information from Bone Weathering (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. K. Behrensmeyer.

Taphonomic and geological approaches to the identification of in situ versus ex situ archaeological material: a case study from BK East, Bed II, Olduvai Gorge (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Wilson. Cynthia M. Fadem. Victoria P. Johnson. Audax Z. P. Mabulla. Charles P. Egeland.

A variety of post-depositional processes can add to, subtract from, and/or spatially reconfigure archaeological deposits. The challenge for archaeologists, then, is to unravel these processes in order to assess the fidelity with which a given deposit reflects hominin behavior. BK East, an early Pleistocene locality in Olduvai Gorge’s middle/upper Bed II, preserves stone tools, butchered animal bones, and hominin remains. This rich archaeo-paleontological collection rests within an interbedded...

Taphonomic and taxonomic comparisons of bird and mammal remains from Tse-whit-zen (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristine Bovy. Michael Etnier.

Birds are often relatively scarce in Northwest Coast shell middens in comparison to fish, mammal and shellfish. However, large numbers of bird bones have been recovered from Tse-whit-zen. In fact, bird bones are both more numerous and more identifiable than mammal bones at the site. In the largest house structure, 47% of the bird bones greater than ¼" in size were identified to taxon (79% of those were identified to element). In contrast, the mammal identifiability rate ranged from 7% to...

Taphonomic consequences of the use of bones as fuel: experimental data and archaeological applications (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S Costamagno. J Brugal. R Guibert. Isabelle Théry-Parisot.

Taphonomic evidence for human accumulation of small mammals from Pinnacle Point Site 5-6 and other MSA sites in South Africa (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron Armstrong.

Our capacity to detect the utilization of small prey resources by MSA humans can help shed light on subsistence strategies, cognition, and social organization during this critical period in human evolution. Recent analyses of South African MSA faunas suggest an expansion of dietary breadth after ~100 ka with the increase in the exploitation of small mammals (<5 kg) during MIS 4, but until now there has been little taphonomic evidence to support these conclusions. I present the results of a...

Taphonomic Studies At the Wahkpa Chu'gn Bison Kill Site, 24HL101: a Determination of Besent Complex Seasonality (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Brumley.

Taphonomy and Archaeology in the Upper Pleistocene of the Northern Yukon Territory: a Glimpse of the Peopling of the New World (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard E. Morlan.

Taphonomy and experimentation (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C Denys.

Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Christensin Bog Mastondon Bone Bed Hancock County, Indiana (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Graham. J. A. Holman. P. W. Parmalee.

Taphonomy and Paleoecology: a Critical Review of Archaeology's Sister Disciplines (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Gifford.

Taphonomy and Population Dynamics of an Early Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna, Knox County, Nebraska (1969)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Vorrhies.

Taphonomy and Stratigraphy in the Interpretation of Economic Patterns at Hoke River Rockshelter (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca J. Wigen. Barbara R. Stucki.

Taphonomy of a modern landscape bone assemblage in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liat Lebovich. Victoria P. Johnson. Ryan M. Byerly. Cynthia M. Fadem. Charles P. Egeland.

Bone assemblages from modern landscapes can help address a variety of issues, from the degree to which bone scatters accurately reflect local habitats to what variables condition the deposition, preservation, and spatial distribution of faunal material. In 2015, systematic pedestrian survey recovered ~350 bone specimens within a 200m x 200m area of open grassland about two kilometers north of Olduvai Gorge in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA). Weathering profiles suggest an exposure,...

The Taphonomy of cooked bone: characterizing boiling and its physico-chemical effects (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S J Roberts. C I Smith. A Millard. M J Collins.

Taphonomy's Contributions To Paleobiology (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna K. Behrensmeyer. Susan M. Kidwell.

Testing and Data Recovery at the Nance Site (AZ U:9:276[ASM]), Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce G. Phillips.

The Nance Site was a seasonally occupied field house site located in the interior of the Salt River floodplain. Current evidence indicates that the site was sporadically occupied in the late Pioneer through the middle Classic periods. Stratigraphic evidence suggests a human presence in the general vicinity of the site during the Early Agricultural/Early Ceramic Periods; a single thermal pit (Feature 19) was found 1.4 m below the surface. The economic activities of the Hohokam inhabitants...

Towards a Multivariate Model for Accurately Identifying Cutmarks (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Krasinski.

The identification of cutmarks has been integral to expanding the understanding of hominin behavior ranging from the origins of meat eating to megafaunal extinctions and the peopling of Australia and the Americas. However, paleoanthropological and archaeological research has demonstrated that while cutmark placement may be indicative of activity, cutmark morphology is more complex and influenced by multiple variables such as raw material, tool shape, and bone density. Further, significant...

Towards an Interpretive Framework for Burnt Ostrich Eggshell: An Experimental Study (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Diehl.

Ostrich eggs have been a valuable resource for Sub-Saharan populations for thousands of years, offering a rich nutritional source as well as a means of transporting water. While burned ostrich eggshell (OES) fragments are common at sites, it is difficult to determine whether they were subsistence refuse or the disposed remnants of canteens. Current tools for analyzing OES burning conditions involve expensive and time consuming isotopic analysis or scanning electron microscopy. This research aims...

A Twist on Taphonomy: Catlow Twine Basketry in Archaeological Contexts (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Camp.

This presentation is a first attempt to trace the taphonomic trajectory of specimens of Catlow Twine, an important kind of basketry technology. Catlow Twine basketry spans over ~9,000 cal B.P. years in the archaeological record of the Great Basin. The longevity of this artifact class and its appearance throughout the Northern and Western Great Basin allows for a thorough investigation of how it has been used. Catlow Twine is simple close twine technology; one of the oldest techniques in the...

Unraveling a Neanderthal Palimpsest from a Zooarcheological and Lithic Perspective: Abrigo de la Quebrada level IV (Valencia, Spain) (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Real Margalef. Aleix Eixea. Alfred Sanchis. João Zilhão. Valentín Villaverde.

Excavations at Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia) have revealed 9 archaeological levels belonging to Neanderthal occupations. Level IV, characterised by a high density of lithic (>18,000) and bone (>100,000) remains, has been dated with AMS between 43,930±750 BP (Beta-244002) and >50.8 ka BP (OxA-24855). Human presence in the shelter has been favoured by its location, giving rise to a kind of natural trap where hunting animals would be feasible. The immediate environment is varied (abrupt...