num_pages: 154
description: Taphonomic studies are a major methodological advance, the effects of which have been felt throughout archaeology. Zooarchaeologists and archaeobotanists were the first to realise how vital it was to study the entire process of how food enters the archaeological record, and taphonomy brought to a close the era when the study of animal bones and plant remains from archaeological sites were regarded mainly as environmental indicators. This volume is indicative of recent developments in taphonomic studies: hugely diverse research areas are being explored, many of which would have been totally unforeseeable only a quarter of a century ago.
language: English
title: Biosphere to Lithosphere: New Studies in Vertebrate Taphonomy
titlecomplete: Biosphere to Lithosphere: New Studies in Vertebrate Taphonomy
ratings_count: 1
series: Proceedings of the 9th ICAZ Conference, Durham 2002
publisher: Oxbow Books