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"This edited volume provides researchers with an in-depth look at cutting-edge innovations in the art and science of taphonomy--the branch of paleontology that deals with the processes of fossilization--bringing them up to date on current knowledge and defining future directions for research"--

Fossilization --- Taphonomy --- Fossilization. --- Taphonomy.

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This is the first book-length treatment of Neolithic burial in Britain to focus primarily on cave evidence. It interprets human remains from forty-eight caves and compares them to what we know of Neolithic collective burial elsewhere in Britain and Europe. It reviews the archaeology of these cave burials and treats them as important evidence for the study of mortuary practice. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, anthropology, osteology and cave science, the book demonstrates that cave burial was one of the earliest elements of the British Neolithic. It also shows that Early Neolithic cave-burial practice was highly varied, with many similarities to other burial rites. However, by the Middle Neolithic, a funerary practice which was specific to caves had developed.

Neolithic period --- Actor-network theory. --- Agency. --- Britain. --- Cave sedimentology. --- Caves. --- Funerary Archaeology. --- Neolithic burial. --- Object biography. --- Taphonomy.

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The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for identifying taphonomic modifications in the field, and for use in the laboratory when collections of fossils are being analyzed. Images in the book are a combination of scanning electron micrographs, regular photographs, cross-sections of bones and line drawings and graphs. By providing good quality illustrations of taphonomic modifications, with links between similar types of modification, the atlas provides a reference source for identifying the agents responsible for the modifications, the processes by which they were formed, and the potential bias introduced by the processes. The authors also aim to emphasize on the directions they consider taphonomic studies should be headed.  Firstly, we should seek to quantify the degree of bias introduced into a fossil fauna and to take account of this bias before interpreting the palaeoecology of the fossil site. Secondly, we should recognize that taphonomic modifications increase the information encoded in fossils by identifying perimortem and postmortem contexts. T his provides a more dynamic and realistic view of the past.

Earth sciences. --- Paleontology. --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Taphonomy --- Mammals, Fossil --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Fossilization --- Fossilification --- Fossilisation --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Taphonomy. --- Paleontology --- Paleontology . --- Human beings --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Amniotes, Fossil --- Vertebrates, Fossil --- Bioarchaeology --- Primitive societies --- Taphonomie --- Mammifères fossiles --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Fossilization. --- Human remains (Archaeology). --- Mammals, Fossil. --- Social sciences

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Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species, Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual provides an important new reference for students, avocational archaeologists, and even naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts. Using the basic principles outlined here, the bones of any vertebrate animal, including humans, can be identified and their relevance to common research questions can be better understood.Because the interpretation of archaeological s

Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeological assemblages --- Taphonomy --- Archaeological surveying --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Assemblages archéologiques --- Taphonomie --- Prospection archéologique --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Identification --- Guides, manuels, etc --- Guides, manuels, etc. --- Archéozoologie -- Manuels d'enseignement --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Assemblages archéologiques --- Prospection archéologique --- Animal remains (Archaeology). --- Archaeological assemblages. --- Archaeological surveying. --- Archäologie. --- Archäozoologie. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Funde. --- Taphonomy. --- Tierknochen. --- Identification. --- Recording --- Recording. --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Archaeological finds --- Artifact assemblages --- Assemblages, Archaeological --- Antiquities --- Paleontology --- Surveying --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Methodology

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When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first but encompasses the recent spectacular discoveries that have continued to revolutionize the field. A state-of-the-science view of current world research, the volume includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. Its internationally renowned authors-forty-four specialists on the various members of the Dinosauria-contribute definitive descriptions and illustrations of these magnificent Mesozoic beasts. The first section of The Dinosauria begins with the origin of the great clade of these fascinating reptiles, followed by separate coverage of each major dinosaur taxon, including the Mesozoic radiation of birds. The second part of the volume navigates through broad areas of interest. Here we find comprehensive documentation of dinosaur distribution through time and space, discussion of the interface between geology and biology, and the paleoecological inferences that can be made through this link. This new edition will be the benchmark reference for everyone who needs authoritative information on dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs. --- Reptiles, Fossil. --- Synapsida --- Amniotes, Fossil --- Vertebrates, Fossil --- Dinosauria --- Reptiles, Fossil --- Paleontology - Mesozoic. --- archaeology. --- avian dinosaurs. --- biogeography. --- biology. --- dinosaur biology. --- dinosaur distribution. --- dinosaur life history. --- dinosaur reproduction. --- dinosaur science. --- dinosaur systematics. --- dinosaurs. --- extinction. --- fossils. --- geology. --- mesozoic period. --- mesozoic radiation of birds. --- natural history. --- non avian dinosaurs. --- ornithischia. --- paleoecology. --- paleontology. --- reptiles. --- saurischia. --- scientists. --- species. --- taphonomy. --- thermoregulation. --- world research.