Biosphere to lithosphere : new studies in vertebrate taphonomy : proceedings of the 9th conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002 / / edited by Terry O'Connor

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2005; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 566
• Soggetto topico: Taphonomy; Animal remains (Archaeology); Vertebrates, Fossil
• Persona (resp. second.): O'ConnorTerry
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Biosphere to lithosphere
• ISBN: 1-78297-917-4; 1-78297-919-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910164876503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II