| Nota de contenido: | What is Taphonomy?
The history and structure of taphonomy.
Taphonomy in practice and theory.
Structure and quantification of vertebrate skeletons.
Vertebrate mortality, skeletonization, disarticulation, and scattering.
Accumulation and dispersal of vertebrate remains.
Frequencies of skeletal parts.
Butchering, bone fracturing and bone tools.
Other biostratinomic factors.
Burial as a taphonomic process.
Diagenesis.
Taphonomy of fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians.
Discussion and conclusions.
Bibliography.
Glossary of taphonomic terminology. |
Vertebrate Taphonomy / Cambridge : Cambridge University Press (1994)
