Screen LibraryBreathing life into fossils：taphonomic studies in honor of C.K. (Bob) Brain
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Stone Age Institute Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Gosport, IN |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stone Age Institute publication series ; 2 |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 296 p.: ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
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9780979227615 (hbk.) 0979227615 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | Q911 |
| CLC: | Q911.2-532 |
| Call Number: | Q911.2-532/B828/2004 |
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Papers from the conference "African taphonomy: a tribute to the career of C.K. (Bob) Brain" held at the Stone Age Institute in Bloomington, Indiana from April 29-30, 2004. Includes bibliographical references. Fifty years of fun with fossils : some cave taphonomy-related ideas and concepts that emerged between 1953 and 2003 / C.K. Brain -- Rather odd detective stories : a view of some actualistic and taphonomic trends in Paleoindian studies / Gary Haynes -- The destruction of skeletal elements by carnivores : the growth of a general model for skeletal element destruction and survival in zooarchaeological assemblages / Naomi Cleghorn and Curtis W. Marean -- Hominids and carnivores at Kromdraai and other Quaternary sites in southern Africa / J. Francis Thackeray -- Taphonomic analysis of an excavated striped hyena den from the eastern desert of Jordan / Kathy Schick ... [et al.] -- Taphonomy and site formation of two early Miocene sites on Rusinga Island, Kenya / Alan Walker -- Are you in or out (of Africa)? : site formation at Dmanisi and actualistic studies in Africa / Martha Tappen ... [et al.] -- Changes through time in carcass survival in the Amboseli ecosystem, southern Kenya / A.K. Behrensmeyer -- Vertebrate taphonomic perspectives on Oldowan hominin land use in the Plio-Pleistocene Olduvai Basin, Tanzania / Robert J. Blumenschine ... [et al.] -- The earlier Stone Age in South Africa : site context and the influence of cave studies / Kathleen Kuman -- Taphonomy of Sterkfontein Australopithecus skeletons / Ron J. Clarke -- Taphonomy of immature hominid skulls and the Taung, Mojokerto, and Herto specimens / Gail E. Krovitz and Pat Shipman -- Carcass foraging by early hominids at Swartkrans Cave (South Africa) : a new investigation of the zooarchaeology and taphonomy of Member 3 / Travis Rayne Pickering ... [et al.]-- Equifinality in carnivore tooth marks and the extended concept of archaeological palimpsests : implications for models of passive scavenging by early hominids / Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Charles P. Egeland and Travis Rayne Pickering -- Butchering backstraps and bearing backbones : insights from Hadza foragers and implications for Paleolithic archaeology / Henry T. Bunn -- Carnivora and carnivory : assessing hominid toothmarks in zooarchaeology / Tim D. White and Nicholas Toth. |