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The Edge of Humanity: Why Commonsensical Notions about Nature Impede our Understandings of Structural Violence in the Arizona Desert (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason De Leon.

Since the 1990’s Border Patrol has employed a strategy known as "Prevention Through Deterrence." This policy emphasizes heightened security around urban ports of entry so that undocumented migrants will attempt to cross the border in more remote areas that are difficult to traverse but easy for law enforcement to patrol. Rather than deterring migration, hundreds of thousands of people each year now spend days in the desert attempting to walk across one of the most extreme environments in North...

Effects of Varying Levels of Soil pH on the Preservation and Appearance of Chicken Bones (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucyna Bowland.

Past studies have noted the carnivore digestion process results in the enlargement of foramina and expansion of Haversian canals within the bones; however, it is not clearly known or taphonomically documented whether acid erosion from soil produces similar signatures.Although bones are oftentimes found within soil matrices, some at highly acidic levels, undoubtedly affecting the preservation and appearance of the remains, the effects are still poorly understood.Studies of erosion on bone mainly...

"Etched in Bone": The Forensic Taphonomy of Undocumented Migration in the Sonoran Desert (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine M.W. Hall. Anna Antoniou. Jess Beck. Jason De León.

Since 1998, the remains of over 2,500 undocumented migrants have been recovered along the Arizona-Mexico border. Many of these remains are unidentified due to the rapid rate of decomposition, the disarticulation and dispersal of skeletons by animals, and the tendency of many migrants to travel without identification. In this paper we examine the nexus of taphonomic and political processes and actors that influence the decomposition, recovery, and identification of migrant bodies as well as...

An Examination of Anthropogenic Burning in Old Kiyyangan Village, Ifugao (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Downey. Alan Farahani. Stephen Acabado.

The rapid expansion of the Old Kiyyangan Village (OKV) in Ifugao, Philippines was accompanied by population increase and a shift in crop production—from taro to wet-rice. Archaeological excavations at OKV have also uncovered larger-than-expected quantities of wood charcoal that likely represent burning episodes associated with this shift. Preliminary analysis of the distribution of wood charcoal indicates that specific locations within the OKV were for anthropogenic burning practices. Moreover,...

Excavations At Magic Mountain: a Diachronic Study of Plains-Southwest Relations (1966)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Irwin-Williams. H. J. Irwin.

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.

Experimentando con lobos; secuencia de acceso, consumo y dispersión de una carcasa de équido en la Sierra de la Culebra, Zamora (Península Ibérica) (2011)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Cáceres. Montserrat Esteban-Nadal. Carlos Tarazona.

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...

Experiments in taphonomy (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only P Andrews.

Exploring Taphonomic and Contextual Comparability in Eastern Archaic Faunal Datasets (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bonnie Styles. Mona Colburn. Sarah Neusius.

The Eastern Archaic Faunal Working Group (EAFWG), established with funding from NSF, is preserving Archaic period faunal databases from interior portions of the Eastern Woodlands in tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record) in order to undertake data integration at multiple scales that examines the use of aquatic resources across time and space during the Archaic. A major initial question about our existing datasets is how comparable they are taphonomically and contextually. Protocols for...

Extracting Information from Concentrations of Desiccated Plant Remains (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Naomi F. Miller. Chantel E. White.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists periodically encounter concentrations of uncharred plant remains. Whether excavated or never actually buried, they are a challenge for interpretation. In addition to identification, the archaeobotanical tasks include determining the agent of deposition and the source and date of the material. This...

Faunal Remains from Klasies River Mouth (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lewis R. Binford.

Field Work In the Council Grove Reservoir (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only T. A. Witty, Jr..

Fire and Death in the Great Platform of Tzintzuntzan, Mexico (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Ibarra López. Marcela Lázaro Tovar. Alfonso Gastélum Strozzi. José Luis Punzo Díaz.

This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Just as fire and firewood were considered very important elements in the cosmovision of the Tarascan culture, so were war and sacrificial practices. Prisoners of war were sacrificed to two types of deities, the first linked to the celestial bodies and the second linked to the earth and water. Historical sources mention that...

The Fossil Signature of Late Pleistocene Patagonian Carnivores (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Borrero. Fabiana María Martin. Francisco J. Prevosti.

A regional study of Late Pleistocene bone assemblages is used for the study of Patagonian extinct carnivore niches. The excavation of dens, distributional patterns, habitat and prey selection and the study of living analogs are some of the main research lines. This study offers information about the conditions of the environment immediately before the arrival of humans, and indicates the conditions under which Patagonian archaeological bone assemblages are destroyed or contaminated with bones...

From Agamemnon to the Animals: Zooarchaeological Research on Human-Animal Boundaries at Mycenae, Greece (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline Meier. Thalia Lynn. Kim Shelton.

This is an abstract from the "If Animals Could Speak: Negotiating Relational Dynamics between Humans and Animals" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the Late Bronze Age site Mycenae in Greece, animals have long been understood mainly in terms of records preserved on clay tablets and sealings, artistic depictions, and later references in Homeric epic echoed by Schliemann. The archaeological remains of animals record a more detailed record of complex...

Fuel management (bone and wood) during the lower Airignacian in the Pataud Rock Shelter (Lower Palaeolithic, Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne, France): contribution of experimentation and anthraco-analysis to the study of the socio-economic bahaviour (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabelle Théry-Parisot.

General Taphonomy and Diagenesis of a Submerged Pleistocene Skeleton from the Cenote of Hoyo Negro, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico: Preliminary Results (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only PATRICIA QUINTANA. Vera Tiesler. Diana Arano. Dominique Rissolo. James Chatters.

This paper examines the macroscopic taphonomy and the diagenesis of a partially lifted preceramic skeleton of a female juvenile (called "Naia"), dated approximately between 13,000 and 12,000 yrs. AP. Naia was recovered at 41 meters below sea level in a submerged karstic cave. Despite the good general preservation of Naia’s remains, the bone segments are brittle, showing changes attributable to time, weathering, changing salinity and micro-organisms. The external bone layer is only loosely...

Geology and Soils of the Colby Site. In the Colby Site: Taphonomy and Archaeology of a Clovis Kill In Northern Wyoming (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John P. Albanese.

Ginsberg Experiment: Modern and Prehistoric Evidence of a Bone-Flaking Technology (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Stanford. Robson Bonnichsen. Richard E. Morlan.

Gordon Creek Burial (1966)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Duane C. Anderson.

Halaf Seasonality and Mobility: An Archaeobotanical View from Fistikli Höyük, Turkey (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Allen.

Settlement patterns and mobility during the Halaf period (ca. 6000-5400 B.C.) are known primarily from Late Halaf sites. On the basis of the Late Halaf pattern, Halaf economies have been characterized as having segmentary organization with some degree of pastoral specialization reflecting a broad pattern of long-term mobility. However, the paucity of floral and faunal studies, particularly for the Early Halaf, limits the visibility of economic variability over the course of the Halaf. In this...

Hopewellian Burial Site In the Lower Republican Valley, Kansas (1948)

DOCUMENT Citation Only F. Schultz. A. C. Spaulding.

Housepit 54: Dogs and their Changing Roles (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emilia Tifental. Kathryn Bobolinski.

Excavations at the Bridge River site, British Colombia have been on going since 2003. The careful study of these housepits have significantly increased our understanding of the communities that inhabited the Middle Fraser Canyon over 1,000 years ago. The completion of the Housepit 54 excavation has provided further evidence of the many facets of indigenous life at Bridge River; among these is the role of dogs. The possession and many uses of dogs in the Middle Fraser Canyon is well documented...

Human Osteological Remains From the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clyde Collins Snow. John Fitzpatrick.

Human Skeletal Material From 14LC301 and 14LC302, Lincoln Co., Kansas (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William M. Bass.

Human Skeletal Material from an Upper Republican Site: the White Mound 14MO323, Morris, Kansas (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. E. Schutte. W. M. Bass.