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      Butchering and marrow fracturing as a taphonomic factor in archaeological deposits

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      Journal: Paleobiology
      Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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          A major aim of the analysis of faunal remains from archaeological sites is the reconstruction of the palaeoecology of early man. Since taphonomic work must precede palaeoecological work, theories concerning the palaeoecology of early man would benefit from firmly based taphonomic studies of the archaeological deposits. One of the numerous taphonomic factors to be considered is the bone fragmentation produced by early man.

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          Sedimentology and taphonomy of the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta (Canada)

          Peter Dodson (1971)
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            Taphonomy and Information Losses in Fossil Communities

            DAVID R. LAWRENCE (1968)
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              Primitive Bone Fracturing: A Method of Research

              Hind Sadek-Kooros (1972)
              A preliminary study of the form and fracture patterns of sheep metatarsals from Jaguar Cave is used to illustrate a method for the quantitative analysis of primitive bone fracturing techniques. Criteria of form, fracture, and function are defined and weighted, on the basis of experiments with green bone, and the aid of computers is enlisted to process the archaeological specimens via these criteria. The data is searched for: a. the definition of a technique of intentional fracture, b. the formation of classes of intentionally fractured and retouched bone fragments, and c. the identification of statistically perfect tools and not-tools, determined by higher or lower correlations of weighted sums. Conclusions are drawn from the analysis of the Jaguar Cave bone and bone from other early collections. The application of linear decision theory to the analysis of bone fractures was first attempted in a Ph.D. dissertation (Sadek-Kooros 1966), and a shorter version of the present paper was read at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, on May 2, 1969.
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                Journal ID (publisher-id): applab
                Title: Paleobiology
                Abbreviated Title: Paleobiology
                Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                ISSN (Print): 0094-8373
                ISSN (Electronic): 1938-5331
                Publication date Created: 1977
                Publication date (Print): April 2016
                Volume: 3
                Issue: 02
                Pages: 218-237
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                DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300005285
                SO-VID: 152a94b4-12ae-420b-818b-4187bd55ec77
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