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 …

Questions about the timing, frequency, resource yield, and behavioral and biological
implications of large animal carcass acquisition by early hominins have been a part of the …

The habitual consumption of large-animal resources (eg, similar sized or larger than the
consumer) separates human and nonhuman primate behavior. Flaked stone tool use …

The estimated period in which human colonization of Madagascar began has expanded
recently to 5000–1000 y BP, six times its range in 1990, prompting revised thinking about …

Collagen type I fingerprinting (ZooMS) has recently been used to provide either
palaeoenvironmental data or to identify additional hominin specimens in Pleistocene …

Bone surface modifications have become important indicators of hominin behavior and
ecology at prehistoric archaeological sites. However, the method by which we identify and …

Humans are unique in their diet, physiology and socio-reproductive behavior compared to
other primates. They are also unique in the ubiquitous adaptation to all biomes and habitats …

A series of experimental cut marks have been analyzed by eleven taphonomists with the
goal of assessing if they could identify similarly 14 selected microscopic variables which …

Zooarchaeologists have long relied on linear traces and pits found on the surfaces of
ancient bones to infer ancient hominid behaviors such as slicing, chopping, and percussive …

Studies of bone surface modifications (BSMs) such as cut marks are crucial to our
understanding of human and earlier hominin subsistence behavior. Over the last several …