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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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Pleistocene hominins as a resource for carnivores. A c. 500,000-year-old human femur bearing tooth-marks in North Africa (Thomas Quarry I, Morocco) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In many Middle Pleistocene sites, the co-occurrence of hominins with carnivores, who both contributed to faunal accumulations, suggests competition for resources as well as for living spaces.
Abderrahim, Mohib   +6 more
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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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A review of experimental design in forensic taphonomy: moving towards forensic realism

open access: yesForensic Sciences Research, 2020
Forensic taphonomy as a discipline requires standardization to satisfy Daubert criteria for scientific data to be admissible in court. In response, there has been a shift towards quantification of methodology and estimating the postmortem interval ...
Kelly L Miles, D. Finaughty, V. Gibbon
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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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