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Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites

Plio-Pleistocene sites are a rare occurrence in same sites. This combination of factors is the archaeological record. When they are unique in East African Plio-Pleistocene uncovered, the faunal materials so crucial to archaeology and has stimulated much debate unlocking their behavioral meaning are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel (Autor), Barba, Rebeca (Autor), Egeland, Charles P. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The "home base" debate
  • The Hunting-versus-scavenging debate
  • The "physical attribute" taphonomic approach
  • Geological and paleoecological overview of Olduvai Gorge
  • New estimates of tooth-mark and percussion-mark frequencies at the FLK Zinjanthropus level: the carn
  • The behavioral meaning of cut marks at the FLK Zinj level: the carnivore-hominid-carnivore hypothesis falsified (II)
  • A cautionary tale about early archaeological sites: a reanalysis of FLK North 6
  • A palimpsest at FLK North 1-2: independent carnivore- and hominid-made bone accumulations
  • A taphonomic study of FLK North 3 and 4: a felid-hyaenid and hominid palimpsest
  • Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of FLK North 5
  • Natural background bone assemblages and their ravaging stages in Olduvai Bed I
  • FLK North North 1: "living floor" or natural accumulation?
  • Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of FLK North North 2
  • Reanalysis of FLK North North 3: yet another case of a palimpsest?
  • Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of the DK site.