Biosphere to lithosphere :  new studies in vertebrate taphonomy / 
 New studies in vertebrate taphonomy 
edited by Terry O'Connor. 
 - Oxford :  Oxbow Books ;  (c)2005. Oakville, CT :  David Brown Book Company,  (c)2005. 
 - 1 online resource (154 pages) :  illustrations, maps. 
 - Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Some taphonomic investigations on reindeer (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in West Greenland /  Magnitude of faunal accumulations by carnivores and humans in the South American Andes /  Anthropogenic versus non-anthropogenic bird bone assemblages : new criteria for their distinction /  Owls, diurnal raptors, and humans : signatures on avian bones /  Predator bias and fluctuating prey populations /  Taphonomic consequences of the use of bones as fuel : experimental data and archaeological applications /  Taphonomic influences on cremation burial deposits : implications for interpretation /  Microfossils in camelid dung : taphonomic considerations for the archaeological study of agriculture and pastoralism /  Why ancient DNA research needs taphonomy /  Bone density variation between similar animals and density variation in early life : implications for future taphonomic analysis /  Contribution to knowledge of the Pleistocene mammal-bearing deposits of the territory of Siracusa (southeastern Sicily) /  Using comparative micromammal taphonomy to test palaeoecological hypotheses : .AUbeidiya, a Lower Pleistocene site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, as a case study /  Fragments of information : preliminary taphonomic results from the middle Palaeolithic breccia layers of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel /  Bone weathering and food procurement strategies : assessing the reliability of our behavioural inferences /  Social changes in the early European Neolithic : a taphonomy perspective /  Kerstin Pasda --  Mariana Mondini --  Véronique Laroulandie --  Zbigniew Bochenski --  Jim Williams --  Sandrine Costamagno [and others] --  Fay Worley --  M. Alejandra Korstanje --  Eva-Maria Geigl --  Robert Symmons --  Corrado Marziano and Salvatore Chilardi --  Miriam Belmaker --  Guy Bar-Oz [and others] --  Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou --  Arkadiusz Marciniak. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781782979197 9781782979173 9781782979180 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Taphonomy--Congresses.<br/>Animal remains (Archaeology)--Congresses.<br/>Vertebrates, Fossil--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Archaeozoology Vertebrate taphonomy Biosphere 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QE721  / .B567 2005