Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is the most common statistical framework used
by scientists, including archaeologists. Owing to increasing dissatisfaction, however …

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 …

Bone surface modifications are foundational to the correct identification of hominin butchery
traces in the archaeological record. Until present, no analytical technique existed that could …

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 …

Use-wear analysis provides a means of studying traces produced on animal bone during
manufacture and use in an effort to reconstruct these processes. Often, these analyses are …

The reconstruction of perimortem and postmortem events is of critical importance to criminal
investigations. In many cases, the information required for these reconstructions can be …

All models of evolution of human behaviour depend on the correct identification and
interpretation of bone surface modifications (BSM) on archaeofaunal assemblages. Crucial …

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 …

Increasingly researchers have employed confocal microscopy and 3D surface texture
analysis to assess bone surface modifications in an effort to understand ancient behavior …

The analysis of bone breakage has always been underrepresented in taphonomic studies.
Analysts, thus, lose the opportunity to resolve an important part of the equifinality related to …