Biosphere to lithosphere : new studies in vertebrate taphonomy / edited by Terry O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference (9th : 2002 : Durham, England)

Contributor:

O'Connor, Terry (Archaeologist)

Series:

International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference 2002 : Durham, England). (9th : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology.

Proceedings of the 9th conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taphonomy--Congresses.

Taphonomy.

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Congresses.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Vertebrates, Fossil--Congresses.

Vertebrates, Fossil.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

154 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Company, [2005]

Contents:

Some taphonomic investigations on reindeer (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in West Greenland / Kerstin Pasda

Magnitude of faunal accumulations by carnivores and humans in the South American Andes / Mariana Mondini

Anthropogenic versus non-anthropogenic bird bone assemblages : new criteria for their distinction / Véronique Laroulandie

Owls, diurnal raptors and humans : signatures on avian bones / Zbigniew Bochenski

Predator bias and fluctuating prey populations / Jim Williams

Taphonomic consequences of the use of bones as fuel. Experimental data and archaeological applications / Sandrine Costamagno ... [et al.]

Taphonomic influences on cremation burial deposits : implications for interpretation / Fay Worley

Microfossils in camelid dung : taphonomic considerations for the archaeological study of agriculture and pastoralism / M. Alejandra Korstanje

Why ancient DNA research needs taphonomy / Eva-Maria Geigl

Bone density variation between similar animals and density variation in early life : implications for future taphonomic analysis / Robert Symmons

Contribution to knowledge of the Pleistocene mammal-bearing deposits of the territory of Siracusa (southeastern Sicily) / Corrado Marziano and Salvatore Chilardi

Using comparative micromammal taphonomy to test palaeoecological hypotheses : 'Ubeidiya, a Lower Pleistocene site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, as a case study / Miriam Belmaker

Fragments of information : preliminary taphonomic results from the middle Palaeolithic breccia layers of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel / Guy Bar-Oz ... [et al.]

Bone weathering and food procurement strategies : assessing the reliability of our behavioural inferences / Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou

Social changes in the early European Neolithic: a taphonomy perspective / Arkadiusz Marciniak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1842171186

OCLC:

59876631