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Breathing life into fossils : taphonomic studies in honor of C.K. (Bob) Brain / editors, Travis Rayne Pickering, Kathy Schick, Nicholas Toth.
Penn Museum Library QE721.2.F6 B74 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Stone Age Institute publication series ; 2.
- Stone Age Institute publication series ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brain, C. K. (Charles Kimberlin).
- Brain, C. K.
- Taphonomy--Congresses.
- Taphonomy.
- Fossils--Congresses.
- Fossils.
- Fossils--Africa--Congresses.
- Animals, Fossil--Congresses.
- Animals, Fossil.
- Antiquities.
- Africa--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gosport, IN : Stone Age Institute Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Fifty years of fun with fossils : some cave taphonomy-related ideas and concepts that emerged between 1953 and 2003 / C.K. Brain
- Rather odd detective stories : a view of some actualistic and taphonomic trends in Paleoindian studies / Gary Haynes
- The destruction of skeletal elements by carnivores : the growth of a general model for skeletal element destruction and survival in zooarchaeological assemblages / Naomi Cleghorn and Curtis W. Marean
- Hominids and carnivores at Kromdraai and other Quaternary sites in southern Africa / J. Francis Thackeray
- Taphonomic analysis of an excavated striped hyena den from the eastern desert of Jordan / Kathy Schick ... [et al.]
- Taphonomy and site formation of two early Miocene sites on Rusinga Island, Kenya / Alan Walker
- Are you in or out (of Africa)? : site formation at Dmanisi and actualistic studies in Africa / Martha Tappen ... [et al.]
- Changes through time in carcass survival in the Amboseli ecosystem, southern Kenya / A.K. Behrensmeyer
- Vertebrate taphonomic perspectives on Oldowan hominin land use in the Plio-Pleistocene Olduvai Basin, Tanzania / Robert J. Blumenschine ... [et al.]
- The earlier Stone Age in South Africa : site context and the influence of cave studies / Kathleen Kuman
- Taphonomy of Sterkfontein Australopithecus skeletons / Ron J. Clarke
- Taphonomy of immature hominid skulls and the Taung, Mojokerto, and Herto specimens / Gail E. Krovitz and Pat Shipman
- Carcass foraging by early hominids at Swartkrans Cave (South Africa) : a new investigation of the zooarchaeology and taphonomy of Member 3 / Travis Rayne Pickering ... [et al.]
- Equifinality in carnivore tooth marks and the extended concept of archaeological palimpsests : implications for models of passive scavenging by early hominids / Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Charles P. Egeland and Travis Rayne Pickering
- Butchering backstraps and bearing backbones : insights from Hadza foragers and implications for Paleolithic archaeology / Henry T. Bunn
- Carnivora and carnivory : assessing hominid toothmarks in zooarchaeology / Tim D. White and Nicholas Toth.
- Notes:
- Papers from the conference "African taphonomy: a tribute to the career of C.K. (Bob) Brain" held at the Stone Age Institute in Bloomington, Indiana from April 29-30, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780979227615
- 0979227615
- OCLC:
- 156832392
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