Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the two major goals of butchery analysis within an
historic context of several decades ago. It focuses on analytic techniques that have been …

The extent to which vertebrate carnivores shift facultatively between predation and
scavenging has recently been emphasized. Potentially, all carnivores have to do is wait until …

Palaeolithic societies have been a neglected topic in the discussion of human origins. In this
book, which succeeds and replaces The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe, published by …

Titanosauria was the most diverse and successful lineage of sauropod dinosaurs. This clade
had its major radiation during the middle Early Cretaceous and survived up to the end of that …

Zooarchaeologists have become accustomed to high levels of confidence in their inferences
about the origins, functions, and responses to stress of animal remains. This confidence …

How to respond to growing elephant numbers in the Kruger National Park and elsewhere in
southern Africa continues to be a contentious issue. In contrast to the public perception …

The existence of shaped bone and ivory points, to be used as awls or with wooden hafts,
has been suggested for the Lower Paleolithic sites of Torralba and Ambrona and for several …

Taphonomic and sedimentologic attributes of three dinosaur bone beds discovered within
the Campanian Two Medicine Formation of Montana suggest drought-related mortality. Two …

Hundreds of non-cultural elephant bone sites have been studied in southern Africa, starting
at or before the actual moments of death and continuing through bone burial or destruction …

The sedimentology and taphonomy of in-situ fossils from earliest Triassic strata (Induan) in
the southern Karoo Basin of South Africa is presented as evidence for episodes of drought …