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FROM THE EDITORS: Is taphonomy a fad? Every so often, generally triggered by an unexpected discovery, certain fields of science experience a sudden burst of popularity, often accompanied by major influxes of research funding and publicity.
Stephen E. Speyer (7932611) +1 more
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Evidence of a therapsid scavenger in the Late Permian Karoo Basin, South Africa
Dicynodonts are an extinct group of herbivorous non-mammalian therapsids (‘mammal-like’ reptiles) that are widely known from terrestrial Permo-Triassic strata throughout Pangaea.
Nicholas Fordyce +2 more
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Forensic Taphonomy. In: Encyclopaedia of Forensic Sciences
Forensic taphonomy encompasses the study of the processes of decomposition, the circumstances of death, commingling, trauma analysis, and all other factors relating to the estimation of time since death. Forensic taphonomy grew out of taphonomic studies
Simmons, Tal Linda Ileen +1 more
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Could a cave hyena have made a musical instrument? A reply to Cajus G. Diedrich
The contribution is a reply to the article written by Cajus G. Diedrich and published online on the web site of the Royal Society Open Science. Diedrich’s article is fraught with factual errors and underestimations of the archaeological and musicological
Ivan Turk, Matija Turk, Borut Toškan
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The 2978 faunal bone remains recovered from the Bronze Age levels at the Castillejo del Bonete site between 2005 and 2019 were analyzed in this study. In the main structure (Great Tumulus 1, Tumulus 2, and Tomb 5), the faunal bone remains were identified
María Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena +6 more
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The taphonomy of vertebrate melanosomes
The field of fossil colour is emerging rapidly as a new focus of palaeobiological research. Evidence of melanosomes, micron-sized organelles containing melanin, found in skin, feathers and hair of exceptionally preserved fossil vertebrates has been used ...
Rossi, Valentina
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In lieu of an abstract, below is the first paragraph of the paper. Savrda and Lewis Gastaldo define taphonomy as the paleontological subdiscipline which is concerned with the process responsible for any organism becoming part of the fossil record, and ...
Rounds, Amberly
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Taphonomy and death investigations
Determining the approximate time of death in human remains presents criminal investigators with a complex dilemma. This is particularly true when advanced decomposition has already set in.
Rodriguez, Katherine M.
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Anthropoquinas : recently formed sedimentary rocks with technofossils in Southern Brazil [resumo]
Andrade Neto, Gerson Fernandino de +1 more
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