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      RESEARCH NOTES AND APPLICATION REPORTS ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION MAPS IN FOSSIL BONES

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      Archaeometry
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          Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering

          Bones of recent mammals in the Amboseli Basin, southern Kenya, exhibit distinctive weathering characteristics that can be related to the time since death and to the local conditions of temperature, humidity and soil chemistry. A categorization of weathering characteristics into six stages, recognizable on descriptive criteria, provides a basis for investigation of weathering rates and processes. The time necessary to achieve each successive weathering stage has been calibrated using known-age carcasses. Most bones decompose beyond recognition in 10 to 15 yr. Bones of animals under 100 kg and juveniles appear to weather more rapidly than bones of large animals or adults. Small-scale rather than widespread environmental factors seem to have greatest influence on weathering characteristics and rates. Bone weathering is potentially valuable as evidence for the period of time represented in recent or fossil bone assemblages, including those on archeological sites, and may also be an important tool in censusing populations of animals in modern ecosystems.
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            Patterns of chemical change during bone fossilization

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              Successful application of uranium series dating of fossil bone

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                Journal
                Archaeometry
                Archaeometry
                Wiley-Blackwell
                0003-813X
                1475-4754
                August 1988
                August 1988
                : 30
                : 2
                : 237-247
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                10.1111/j.1475-4754.1988.tb00450.x
                2c5ac0da-d875-438b-8ecd-af069381703c
                © 1988

                http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1

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