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Forensic Taphonomy and Ecology of North American Scavengers compiles research on vertebrate scavenging behavior from numerous academic fields, including ecology and forensic anthropology. Scavenging behavior can displace remains from their depositional context, confound postmortem interval estimation, destroy osteological markers, and inflict damage that mimics or disguises perimortem trauma. Consequently, the actions of vertebrate scavengers can significantly impact the medicolegal investigation of human remains. It is therefore critical when interpreting a death scene and its associated evidence that scavenging be recognized and the possible effects of scavenging behavior considered. This book is an ideal reference for both students and medicolegal professionals, serving as a field manual for the identification of common scavenging species known to modify human remains in North America. In addition, this book presents a framework to guide investigators in optimizing their approach to scavenged cases, promoting more complete recovery of human remains and the accuracy of forensic reconstructions of peri- and postmortem events.--

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The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for identifying taphonomic modifications in the field, and for use in the laboratory when collections of fossils are being analyzed. Images in the book are a combination of scanning electron micrographs, regular photographs, cross-sections of bones and line drawings and graphs. By providing good quality illustrations of taphonomic modifications, with links between similar types of modification, the atlas provides a reference source for identifying the agents responsible for the modifications, the processes by which they were formed, and the potential bias introduced by the processes. The authors also aim to emphasize on the directions they consider taphonomic studies should be headed. Firstly, we should seek to quantify the degree of bias introduced into a fossil fauna and to take account of this bias before interpreting the palaeoecology of the fossil site. Secondly, we should recognize that taphonomic modifications increase the information encoded in fossils by identifying perimortem and postmortem context s. This provides a more dynamic and realistic view of the past.

Earth sciences. --- Paleontology. --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Taphonomy --- Mammals, Fossil --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Fossilization --- Fossilification --- Fossilisation --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Taphonomy. --- Paleontology --- Paleontology . --- Human beings --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Amniotes, Fossil --- Vertebrates, Fossil --- Bioarchaeology --- Primitive societies --- Taphonomie --- Mammifères fossiles --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Fossilization. --- Human remains (Archaeology). --- Mammals, Fossil. --- Social sciences

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Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species, Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual provides an important new reference for students, avocational archaeologists, and even naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts. Using the basic principles outlined here, the bones of any vertebrate animal, including humans, can be identified and their relevance to common research questions can be better understood.Because the interpretation of archaeological s

Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeological assemblages --- Taphonomy --- Archaeological surveying --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Assemblages archéologiques --- Taphonomie --- Prospection archéologique --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Identification --- Guides, manuels, etc --- Guides, manuels, etc. --- Archéozoologie -- Manuels d'enseignement --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Assemblages archéologiques --- Prospection archéologique --- Animal remains (Archaeology). --- Archaeological assemblages. --- Archaeological surveying. --- Archäologie. --- Archäozoologie. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Funde. --- Taphonomy. --- Tierknochen. --- Identification. --- Recording --- Recording. --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Archaeological finds --- Artifact assemblages --- Assemblages, Archaeological --- Antiquities --- Paleontology --- Surveying --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Methodology

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Fossils are essential to the reconstruction of the evolution of life and episodes in Earth history. Knowledge of biomineralization - the processes associated with the formation of mineralized biological structures - is essential to properly evaluate data derived from fossils. This book emphasizes skeletal formation and fossilization in a geologic framework in order to understand evolution, relationships between fossil groups, and the use of biomineral materials as geochemical proxies for understanding ancient oceans and climates. The focus is on shells and skeletons of calcareous organisms, and the book explores the fine structures and mode of growth of the characteristic crystalline units, taking advantage of most recent physical methodological advances. The book is richly illustrated and will be of great interest to advanced students and researchers in paleontology, Earth history, evolution, sedimentology, geochemistry, and materials science.

Biomineralization. --- Fossilization. --- Fossilification --- Fossilisation --- Taphonomy --- Biological mineralization --- Mineralization, Biological --- Minerals in the body --- Biomineralization --- Fossilization --- 330.8 --- 330.81 --- 330.35 --- 330.35 Economische groei. Kwantitatieve toename. Technische vooruitgang --zie ook {338.09} --- Economische groei. Kwantitatieve toename. Technische vooruitgang --zie ook {338.09} --- 330.81 Voorlopers van Adam Smith. Mercantilisme. Colbertisme. Fysiocraten. Kameralisme --(economisch denken) --- Voorlopers van Adam Smith. Mercantilisme. Colbertisme. Fysiocraten. Kameralisme --(economisch denken) --- 330.8 Economisch denken. Economische scholen. Economische theorieen --- Economisch denken. Economische scholen. Economische theorieen

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Physical anthropology --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Paleopathology --- Paléontologie --- Paléopathologie --- Anthropologie physique --- Paleopathology. --- Physical anthropology. --- Périodiques. --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Medical archaeology --- Pathology --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Anthropology, Physical --- Bone and Bones --- Paleontology --- pathology --- Phylogeography --- Bone --- Bones --- Bones and Bone --- Bones and Bone Tissue --- Bony Apophyses --- Bony Apophysis --- Condyle --- Bone Tissue --- Apophyses, Bony --- Apophysis, Bony --- Bone Tissues --- Condyles --- Tissue, Bone --- Tissues, Bone --- Skeleton --- Physical Anthropology --- Bioarchaeology --- Anthropology, Physical. --- Paleontology. --- pathology. --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Anthropologie physique. --- Paléontologie. --- Paléopathologie. --- physical anthropology. --- paleontology. --- Periodicals. --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Taphonomy