Funerary taphonomy has come of age as an important field in osteoarchaeology. Its goal is
to reconstruct funerary practices by using taphonomic evidence, including both evidence …

Since work began on the first volume Forensic Taphonomy in 1993 (Haglund and Sorg,
1997a), traditional taphonomy and forensic research has undergone significant change …

Taphonomy is central to many attempts to address social questions from archaeological
animal remains, especially where those questions relate to practices of consumption and …

Mass deposits of altered human bone have been found at more than 30 sites in the
American Southwest affiliated with the Chaco Anasazi culture. Anasazi bone deposits …

An introduction to the range of factors that affect the composition and condition of human
bone assemblages recovered from archaeological contexts, with discussion of the …

The objective of this paper was to integrate excavation and post‐processing of
archaeological and osteological contexts and material to enhance the interpretation of these …

Objectives Humanly induced modifications on human and non‐human bones from four
archaeological sites of known funerary rituals (one interpreted as cannibalism and three …

The main goals in any forensic skeletal analysis are to answer who is the person
represented (individualization), how that person died (trauma/pathology) and when that …

Prehistoric burial practices are diverse, but they serve to tell us much about the life of the
communities practising them. Humans are the only species that pay attention to their dead …

Links have recently been established between the study of death assemblages by
archaeologists and paleontologists (taphonomy) and the application of physical …