Proboscideans and humans have shared habitats across the Old and New Worlds for
hundreds of thousands of years. Proboscideans were included in the human diet starting …

Abstract The North American archaeological phenomenon known as Clovis is famous for the
fact that a number of sites that contain diagnostic Clovis artifacts also contain the remains of …

Archaeological discoveries of teeth provide remarkable information on humans, animals and
the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and updated 2005 …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

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

The province of Jujuy lies in the northwestern corner of Argentina, abutting Chile and Bolivia
in the west and northeast, and ranging from 500 to 6,000 m in elevation. As a result of its …

Taphonomy plays diverse roles in paleobiology. These include assessing sample quality
relevant to ecologic, biogeographic, and evolutionary questions, diagnosing the roles of …

We show through blind tests that marks inflicted on bone surfaces by carnivore teeth,
hammerstone percussion, and metal knife cutting and scraping can be distinguished with …

Animals as geomorphic agents have primarily been considered" curiosities" in the literature
of geomorphology, whose spatial and quantitative influences have been seen as both …

An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials.
Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) …