Taphonomy (Other Keyword)

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Observations On the Taphonomy of Spontaneous ("Natural") Mummification With Applications To the Mummies of Vanzone, Italy (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arthur C. Aufderheide. Mary L. Aufderheide.

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Opportunistic fire in the Early Palaeolithic: evidence of small mammal incidental burning at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Rio Quípar ( Murcia, Spain). (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Rhodes. Antonio López-Jiménez. Mariano López-Martinez. Maria Haber-Uriarte. Michael J. Walker.

Cueva Negra, an upland rock-shelter in southeastern Spain, has revealed a delineated ash feature containing burnt macrofauna and chert within Early Pleistocene deposits (>0.78 Ma). This paper details a novel methodology utilizing heat-altered micromammal remains to identify opportunistic fire-use by the inhabitants of this site. We hypothesize that micromammal bones deposited in the by non-human predators were unintentionally modified by anthropogenic fire, and may be used as proxy evidence of...

Orelton Farms Mastodon (1952)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E. S. Thomas.

Osteology and Archaeology of the Crow Creek Massacre (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only P. Willey. Thomas W. Emerson.

Ostrich Eggshell taphonomy and distribution at Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1 (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Sender. Daniel Peart. Hannah Keller. Naomi Cleghorn.

Analysis of ostrich eggshell (OES) fragment distribution at Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1 (KEH-1) revealed taphonomic patterns. The variation of OES features and its distribution indicates that the OES was being used and processed differently in temporal and spatial context. KEH-1, a cave on the southern coast of South Africa, was inhabited by early modern humans throughout the Middle and Late Stone Age. Hearth features are prevalent throughout the sequence, providing evidence of occupational...

Patterns of Lithic Edge Damage from the Open-air Middle Stone Age Assemblages at Vleesbaai and Oyster Bay, South Africa (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Schoville. Kyle Brown. Jayne Wilkins.

Much of our understanding of the South African Middle Stone Age (MSA) comes from deep sequences recovered from caves and rockshelters. These discreet, enclosed contexts represent one aspect of a foraging continuum; where many other activities take place on the continuous, open landscape. A different suite of taphonomic processes are also more likely to occur on open landscapes, complicating comparisons between site contexts. Developing meaningful inferences regarding past human behaviors...

“Picking at the Scabs of Ancient Wounds”: The Derry Excavations Collection (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "Taphonomy in Focus: Current Approaches to Site Formation and Social Stratigraphy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The “Derry Excavations Collection” (DEC) is a legacy collection recovered during a series of late 1970s salvage excavations conducted by archaeologist Brian Lacey in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. This project focuses on a subset of artifacts associated with a seventeenth-century “town ditch”...

Pipestem Burial: An Archaic Interment From Southeastern North Dakota (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. A. Fox. J. A. Williams.

Preliminary Analysis of Human and Nonhuman Skeletal Remains from 41 Wn 73 (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Gentry Steele. Robert A. Searles.

Preliminary Skeletal Analysis of the Burials From Site 14ML312, Mitchell County, Kansas (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Finnegan.

Proboscideans, Drought, and Cyanobacteria: Natural Death Events both Present and Past (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hitchcock. Alan Osborn. Melinda Kelly.

This is an abstract from the "A Tribute to the Contributions of Lawrence C. Todd to World Prehistory" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lawrence Todd has made substantial contributions to the studies of taphonomy, Paleoindians, and megafauna, among other topics. His foundational research provides the basis for important questions to be asked about megafaunal extinctions. Drawing first on data on elephant deaths in northern Botswana in 2020 that...

Protein Modification in Fermented and Cooked Horse Milk: Taphonomic Implications for Archaeological Chemistry (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Scott. Barney Venables. Steve Wolverton.

Archaeological chemistry continues to expand by adopting taphonomic experimentation as a means to identify the effects of particular processes and conditions on the preservation of biomolecular remains. Analysis of ancient proteins through mass-spectrometry based proteomics requires that archaeological chemists observe and record protein modifications that occur related to processing and use behaviors. We conducted cooking and fermentation experiments using horse milk; we then assessed protein...

Re-evaluation of the Archaeology of the Pali Aike Lava Field (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabiana María Martin.

This is an abstract from the "Patagonian Evolutionary Archaeology and Human Paleoecology: Commending the Legacy (Still in the Making) of Luis Alberto Borrero in the Interpretation of Hunter-Gatherer Studies of the Southern Cone" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A new research project will focus on the archaeology of the Pali Aike Lava Field, Patagonia, Chile by a restudy of the collections obtained by Junius Bird between 1936 and 1970. These objects...

Recent paleoanthropological work at DK East, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Egeland. Alexa Uberseder. Cynthia Fadem.

Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, remains one of the richest sources of information on human bio-behavioral evolution between 1-2 million years ago. While much research has justifiably focused on the gorge’s junction area and its rich collection of sites, including FLK 22 (The Zinjanthropus Floor), the older fossiliferous deposits to the west have received much less attention in recent years. The DK area, which lies along the north edge of the main gorge, is particularly intriguing and was made famous by...

Report of the Investigations of the Four Bear Site, 39DW2, Dewey County, South Dakota (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. R. Hurt, Jr.. W. G. Buckles. E. Fugle. G. A. Agogino.

Report On Documentation of Additional Skeletal Remanis Associated With the Loup River Phase and Central Plains Tradition Claimed By the Pawnee (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E. J. Bubniak. J. W. Verano.

Representing the Underworld: Manipulation and Reuse of Animal Bones from Offering 126 (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ximena Chávez Balderas. Jacqueline Castro Irineo. Karina López Hernández.

Offering 126 was discovered during the Seventh Field Season of the Templo Mayor Project. This ritual deposit was buried in the West Plaza of the Sacred Precinct, during the reign of Ahuítzotl (AD 1486-1502). Mexica priests deposited inside a box made of stone slabs, more than 9,000 animal bones from 94 individuals, corresponding to wolves, pumas, jaguars, bobcats and birds of prey, among others. These animals were covered with a layer of marine organisms such as corals, shells, snails, starfish...

Review of Vertebrate Taphonomy (1995)

DOCUMENT Full-Text David J. Rapson.

Review of Vertebrate Taphonomy

Review: Taphonomy and Archaeology in the Upper Pleistocene of the Northern Yukon Territory: a Glimpse of the Peopling of the New World By Richard E. Morlan. Archaeological Survey of Canada, Paper No. 94, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hansjurgen Muller-Beck.

Richland Crematorium: New Evidence of Plains Woodland Mortuary Practices in the Central Plains (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B. Logan.

Seminole Sink: Excavation of a Vertical Shaft Tomb, Val Verde County, Texas (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Solveig A. Turpin.

Simulating Organic Projectile Point Damage on Bison Pelves (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Speer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A Bison latifrons pelvis was discovered eroding out of shoreline sediment at American Falls Reservoir in Idaho in 1953. The ischium section had a unique groove and hole with a depth of 35 mm and 10 mm in diameter. The pelvis was X-rayed in 1961 for indicators of the origin of the damage and this could not be ascertained. An experiment was developed to...