Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "taphonomy"
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Bear in Mind: Bear Hunting in the Mesolithic of the Southern Caucasus
(Elsevier, 2009)We present new faunal data from Kotias Klde rockshelter, Republic of Georgia, where a substantial part of the faunalv assemblage consists of brown bear remains (Ursus arctos) found in clear association with Mesolithic ... -
Covariance of Microfossil Assemblages and Microbialite Textures Across an Upper Mesoproterozoic Carbonate Platform
(Society for Sedimentary Geology, 2013)Early diagenetic chert nodules and beds in the upper Mesoproterozoic Angmaat (formerly Society Cliffs) Formation, Baffin and Bylot islands, preserve microfossils and primary petrofabrics that record microbial mat deposition ... -
Organic Chemical Differentiation Within Fossil Plant Cell Walls Detected with X-ray Spectromicroscopy
(Geological Society of America, 2002)Organic matter preserved in cell walls of permineralized plant fossils was analyzed by using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy at energies near the 1<i>s</i> absorption edge of carbon. Microchemical ... -
Resource Intensification in the Late Upper Paleolithic: A View from Southern China
(Elsevier, 2009)Resource intensification is often viewed as a precursor to sedentism and thereby to agriculture. Late Upper Paleolithic sites in China are also seen as important precursors to the beginnings of sedentism and agriculture, ... -
Taphonomy and Zooarchaeology of the Upper Palaeolithic Cave of Dzudzuana, Republic of Georgia
(John Wiley & Sons, 2008)We present the results of a detailed taphonomic and zooarchaeological study of the faunal remains from the Upper Palaeolithic layers of Dzudzuana Cave, Republic of Georgia. This study presents the first carefully analysed ...