Biosphere to lithosphere
Subtitle: new studies in vertebrate taphonomy
By: edited by Terry O'Connor.
Contributors: O'Connor, T. P. 1954-
Series: Proceedings of the 9th conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002
Publisher: Oxbow; David Brown Book Company
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Taphonomy -- Congresses.; Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses.; Vertebrates, Fossil -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Some taphonomic investigations on reindeer (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in West Greenland / Kerstin Pasda; title: Magnitude of faunal accumulations by carnivores and humans in the South American Andes / Mariana Mondini; title: Anthropogenic versus non-anthropogenic bird bone assemblages : new criteria for their distinction / Véronique Laroulandie; title: Owls, diurnal raptors and humans : signatures on avian bones / Zbigniew Bochenski; title: Predator bias and fluctuating prey populations / Jim Williams; title: Taphonomic consequences of the use of bones as fuel. Experimental data and archaeological applications / Sandrine Costamagno ... [et al.]; title: Taphonomic influences on cremation burial deposits : implications for interpretation / Fay Worley; title: Microfossils in camelid dung : taphonomic considerations for the archaeological study of agriculture and pastoralism / M. Alejandra Korstanje; title: Why ancient DNA research needs taphonomy / Eva-Maria Geigl; title: Bone density variation between similar animals and density variation in early life : implications for future taphonomic analysis / Robert Symmons; title: Contribution to knowledge of the Pleistocene mammal-bearing deposits of the territory of Siracusa (southeastern Sicily) / Corrado Marziano and Salvatore Chilardi; title: Using comparative micromammal taphonomy to test palaeoecological hypotheses : 'Ubeidiya, a Lower Pleistocene site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, as a case study / Miriam Belmaker; title: Fragments of information : preliminary taphonomic results from the middle Palaeolithic breccia layers of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel / Guy Bar-Oz ... [et al.]; title: Bone weathering and food procurement strategies : assessing the reliability of our behavioural inferences / Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou; title: Social changes in the early European Neolithic: a taphonomy perspective / Arkadiusz Marciniak.