This paper reviews the ultrastructure and chemistry of fish bone, with an emphasis on
zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis. On the basis of the chemical composition of the …

A critical review of the conceptual and practical evolution of forensic anthropology during the
last two decades serves to identify two key external factors and four tightly inter‐related …

Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone
Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic …

In growing numbers, archeologists are specializing in the analysis of excavated animal
bones as clues to the environment and behavior of ancient peoples. This pathbreaking work …

Cutmarks made by stone tools, conchoidal flake scars from hammerstone percussion,
carnivore tooth marks, striations from sedimentary abrasion, and other surface modifications …

Research in experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, geoarchaeology, and vertebrate
taphonomy has appreciably increased our general understanding of the formation …

A major aim of paleoanthropology is to learn what ancient behaviors were related to the
acquisition, processing, and consumption of meat and when these behaviors arose. For this …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses land-mammal bones, their biological properties,
the various modification processes they can undergo, and the agencies responsible for …

Taphonomy, or “the science of the laws of burial”(Efremov 1940: 93), is now an important
aspect of all studies of fauna1 remains, whether those remains derive from paleontological …

Fifteen years ago Casteel and Grayson (1977) identified potential ambiguity in the
definitions of quantitative terms and units used by zooarchaeologists. As solutions they …