Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites
Plio-Pleistocene sites are a rare occurrence in same sites. This combination of factors is the archaeological record. When they are unique in East African Plio-Pleistocene uncovered, the faunal materials so crucial to archaeology and has stimulated much debate unlocking their behavioral meaning are...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Series: | Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6152-3 |
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Table of Contents:
- The “home base” debate
- The Hunting-versus-scavenging debate
- The “physical attribute” taphonomic approach
- Geological and paleoecological overview of Olduvai Gorge
- New estimates of tooth-mark and percussion-mark frequencies at the FLK Zinjanthropus level: the carn
- The behavioral meaning of cut marks at the FLK Zinj level: the carnivore-hominid-carnivore hypothesis falsified (II)
- A cautionary tale about early archaeological sites: a reanalysis of FLK North 6
- A palimpsest at FLK North 1-2: independent carnivore- and hominid-made bone accumulations
- A taphonomic study of FLK North 3 and 4: a felid-hyaenid and hominid palimpsest
- Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of FLK North 5
- Natural background bone assemblages and their ravaging stages in Olduvai Bed I
- FLK North North 1: “living floor” or natural accumulation?
- Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of FLK North North 2
- Reanalysis of FLK North North 3: yet another case of a palimpsest?
- Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of the DK site.