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      Bone surface modifications in zooarchaeology

      Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
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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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            Breakage patterns of human long bones

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              Systematic Butchery by Plio/Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania [and Comments and Reply]

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                Journal
                Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
                J Archaeol Method Theory
                Springer Nature
                1072-5369
                1573-7764
                March 1995
                March 1995
                : 2
                : 1
                : 7-68
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                10.1007/BF02228434
                f568a835-d0f0-4e2a-a766-f463e49624d3
                © 1995
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