From 1994 to 2013, French forensic entomology laboratories investigated 1,093 cases.
Larder beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) were observed in 81 (7.5%) of these cases. To …

Abstract The Brazilian Intertropical Region (BIR) abounds with tank (natural reservoir)
deposits, a primary source of late Quaternary megafauna remains. However, most of these …

Three geographically dispersed Middle and Later Stone Age cave sites in South Africa, and
a Middle Stone Age cave site in Ethiopia, share a similar taphonomic signature that includes …

The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million
years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American …

Bioerosion trace fossils in bones are defined as biogenic structures that cut or destroy hard
bone tissue as the result of mechanical and/or chemical processes. Under the premise that …

Borings and bite marks on fossil turtle carapaces and plastra from the Miocene Moghra
Formation, northern Egypt, are herein described. All fossil turtle material from Moghra …

Unique bone damage identified on Middle Bronze Age human skeletal material from the
Southern Levant provided important information about the processes of modification and the …

The carapace and plastron bones of fossil turtles are often characterized by bone
modification features such as pits, grooves, and holes. The significance, origin, and …

Bone is a substrate for bioerosion at equal rank with xylic and lithic substrates. Accordingly,
borings in bone have to be identified in an analogous way to other ichnogenera coined for …

The La Brea Tar Pits, the world's richest and most important Late Pleistocene fossil locality,
offers unsurpassed insights into southern California's past environments. Recent studies at …