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A synthesis of carcass decomposition studies conducted at a tropical (Aw) taphonomy facility: 2013–2022 [PDF]

open access: yesForensic Science International: Synergy, 2023
Decomposition studies have been conducted in several regions of the world, but relatively few have investigated taphonomy in tropical environments. Even fewer have explored carcass decomposition during multiple tropical seasons, leaving the relationships
David O. Carter   +6 more
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Mammal Taphonomy in a Cave Deposit From Quaternary of Brazil

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
In Brazil, the Quaternary caves of the Brazilian Intertropical Region (BIR) host important fossiliferous deposits of terrestrial vertebrates, whose fossil content is taxonomically well known.
Lucas Henrique Medeiros da Silva Trifilio   +7 more
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Taphonomical investigation applied to clandestine graves

open access: yesAtti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti : Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, 2023
Taphonomy originates as a branch of palaeontology addressed to the study of processes occurring from the pre-agonic stages of an organism to the recovery of the fossilized palaeontological record.
Antonella Cinzia Marra
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L'Archeologia Forense e CSI

open access: yesArcheomatica, 2021
International law enforcement agencies adopt a standard procedure to analyse a crime scene, beginning with a landscape macroscopic study (e.g., remote sensing) till a microscopic evidence analysis (e.g., archaeological stratigraphy) following ...
Pier Matteo Baone
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Taphonomic bias in preservation and representativeness of skeletal samples (a case of Gonur Depe) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2022
The topic of this article is theoretical and practical issues underlying the problems of representativeness of skeletal samples, as well as age and sex biases in preservation of skeletal remains, and the impact of these factors on paleodemographic ...
Kufterin V.V.   +2 more
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Revisiting the concept of entomotoxicology

open access: yesForensic Science International: Synergy, 2020
Until now, the term entomotoxicology has only been used in medico-legal sciences. However, entomotoxicology as a whole has a much wider scope and forensic entomotoxicology is just one of its branches.
Jiri Hodecek
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A Tale of Two Taphonomies

open access: yesSources, 2021
The Kadruka concession represents an area of study grouping together a large number of funerary (as well as habitat) sites located in Upper Nubia in modern day Sudan.
Emma Maines
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The Microvertebrates of Shanidar Cave: Preliminary Taphonomic Findings

open access: yesQuaternary, 2022
Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, is one of the most important Palaeolithic sites in Southwest Asia. This is due to the long sequence of hominin occupation of the cave and the discovery of multiple Neanderthal individuals from the original Solecki ...
Emily Tilby   +2 more
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Taphonomy of Early Triassic fish fossils of the Vega-Phroso Siltstone Member of the Sulphur Mountain Formation near Wapiti Lake, British Columbia, Canada

open access: yesJournal of Palaeogeography, 2013
The taphonomy of fishes living in lacustrine environments has been extensively studied in both the laboratory and the fossil record; the taphonomy of marine fishes, however, is poorly known.
Karen Anderson, Adam D. Woods
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Minerals in the gut: scoping a Cambrian digestive system [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2016
The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland contains the first exceptionally preserved mat-ground community of the Cambrian, dominated, in terms of abundance, by trilobites but particularly characterized by iconic arthropods and lobopods, some also ...
K. M. Strang   +2 more
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