Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Noncultural Modifications to Mammalian Bones in Sites of Mass Deaths and Serial Predation
AU  - Haynes G
Y1  - 1991
VL  - 29
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 151
EP  - 156
KW  - Taphonomy
KW  - Noncultural Bone Sites
KW  - Mass Deaths
KW  - Serial Predation
N2  - 
N2  - This paper abstracts some patterns that have emerged from taphonomic field studies over the past 10 years documenting the death and post-mortem processes affecting bones of hundreds of large mammals (about 30 different taxa) in southern Africa, north central Canada, and central Australia. Bone densities are high in both mass death sites and serial predation loci. Appendicular elements are well-represented; trampling by large mammals spirally fractures many limbs-bones (proportions range from 0 % to 62 % of the total numbers of bones); false cutmarks (mimics created by noncultural agencies) are present in some assemblages; toothmarking in uncommon at death sites; bone weathering varies widely even within the same site. These site characteristics are similar to those found in archeological and nonarcheological sites from around the world, such as early hominid sites in Africa.
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