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Environmental heterogeneity and productivity drive the assemblage of benthic diatom: a case study of the Three Gorges Reservoir
Dam construction has a critical effect on river ecosystems in the world, resulting in a rapid decline in biodiversity and ecosystem health. However,...
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Intra-site spatial approaches based on taphonomic analyses to characterize assemblage formation at Pleistocene sites: a case study from Buena Pinta Cave (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid, Spain)
Buena Pinta Cave (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid) has been interpreted as a hyena den with sporadic occupations of Homo neanderthalensis in the western...
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Sharing food with hyenas: a latrine of Pachycrocuta brevirostris in the Early Pleistocene assemblage of Fuente Nueva-3 (Orce, Baza Basin, SE Spain)
The Early Pleistocene archeological site of Fuente Nueva-3 (FN3) preserves some of the oldest evidence of hominin presence in Western Europe,...
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A body size approach to understanding Holocene seal hunting at Lake Baikal in Siberia
Baikal seals ( Pusa sibirica ) are a unique freshwater pinniped that inhabits Lake Baikal in the interior of Eastern Siberia. These seals were critical...
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Recent Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages in the Western Part of the East Siberian Sea
AbstractBenthic foraminiferal assemblages were studied in twenty surface sediment samples collected in the western part of the East Siberian Sea in...
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On the traces of lost identities: chronological, anthropological and taphonomic analyses of the Late Neolithic/Early Eneolithic fragmented and commingled human remains from the Farneto rock shelter (Bologna, northern Italy)
The present study examines the prehistoric human skeletal remains retrieved starting from the 1920s in the deposit of the Farneto rock shelter,...
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The Fossil, the Dead, the Living: Beach Death Assemblages and Molluscan Biogeography of the Uruguayan Coast
Shelly death assemblagesDeath assemblage are major sources of information for Actualistic Taphonomy studies. They preserve a sample, often biased, of...
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Scratching the surface? A histotaphonomic study of human remains at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Recent bioarchaeological analyses at the Neolithic Anatolian site of Çatalhöyük have revealed considerable variation in skeletal completeness,...
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Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Lycoptera: A Case Study from the Lower Jehol Group in Western Liaoning, Northeastern China
Taphonomy and paleoecology (biological behavior) of the Early Cretaceous fish fossils are poorly described. This study reports for the first time a...
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The dik-diks of Guli Waabayo: Late Pleistocene net-hunting and forager sociality in eastern Africa
Net-hunting is closely linked to organized labor and hunter-gatherer cooperation in many world regions. At the Rifle Range Site (RRS) in southern...
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The late Early Pleistocene site of Fuente Nueva-3 (Guadix-Baza Depression, SE Spain): a hyena latrine developed on a quicksand trap for megaherbivores?
The late Early Pleistocene archaeological site of Fuente Nueva-3 (FN3), which lies in the Guadix-Baza Depression (SE Spain) and is dated to ~ 1.4 Ma,...
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Identification and quantification of projectile impact marks on bone: new experimental insights using osseous points
Shifts in projectile technology potentially document human evolutionary milestones, such as adaptations for different environments and settlement...
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New data on the marine Upper Triassic palaeobiota from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in Austria
Here we report new data on the Upper Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Northern Calcarous Alps of Lower Austria. We examined new fossil...
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Being “elite” among Goths: multi-proxy analysis of a Roman period cremation princely grave from Czarnówko (Pomerania, North Poland)
Interactions with the Roman Empire presumably enhanced social differentiation and caused the emergence of an elite class among Gothic communities in...
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The dirty dozen: taxonomical and taphonomical overview of a unique ankylosaurian (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) assemblage from the Santonian Iharkút locality, Hungary
Ankylosaurian fossils are usually standard elements of Cretaceous continental vertebrate localities; however, bone-yielding horizons including more...
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Milk production in pottery. Evidence for various exploited resources used by the first farmers in Central Pyrenees using the morphological, chemical and stable carbon isotopic composition of organic residues from ceramic vessels
From the second part of the 6th millennium BC onwards, pottery manufacture is attested throughout the western Mediterranean. The study of the...
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Local Persistence of Large Benthic Foraminifera (LBF) under Increasing Urban Development: A Case Study from Zanzibar (Unguja), East Africa
Coastal marine management is vital for socio-ecological sustainability of develo**, tropical ecosystems, which calls for diverse tools to monitor...
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Subaqueous Flows of Pyroclastic Debris and Their Deposits
In this chapter, we consider the intriguing and provocative topic of what happens when pyroclastic density currents enter the sea or large lakes from...
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The place beyond the trees: renewed excavations of the Middle Stone Age deposits at Olieboomspoort in the Waterberg Mountains of the South African Savanna Biome
Olieboomspoort is one of the few rock shelters in the vast interior of southern Africa documenting pulses of occupation from the Acheulean until the...
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Late Permian Reef Buildups and the Puguang Gas Field in the Northeastern Sichuan Basin, SW China
The Yangtze region is one of the regions with the best stratigraphic record and the most abundant fossils of the Permian–Triassic in the East Tethys...