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Taphonomy in Archaeology: Bibliography

Bibliographic References in Taphonomy: Barton to Hill

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Barton, R. N. E. 1987. Vertical distribution of artefacts and some post-depositional factors affecting site formation. In Mesolithic Northwest Europe: recent trends. P. Rowley-Conwy, Marek Zvelebil, and H. P. Blankholm, eds. Pp. 55-62. University of Sheffield: Department of Archaeology and Prehistory.

Bartram, Laurence E. Jr. and Curtis W. Marean. 1999. Explaining the "Klasies Pattern": Kua ethnoarchaeology, the Die Kelders middle stone age archaeofauna, long bone fragmentation and carnivore ravaging. Journal of Archaeological Science 2:69-29.

Bednarik, Robert G. 1994. A taphonomy of palaeoart. Antiquity 68:68-74.

Behrensmeyer, Anna K. and Andrew P. Hill. 1980. Fossils in the making: vertebrate taphonomy and paleoecology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Behrensmeyer, Kay 1978 Taphonomic and ecological information from bone weathering. Paleobiology 41:50-162.

Berger, L. R. and R. J. Clarke 1995 Eagle involvement in accumulation of the Taung child fauna. Journal of Human Evolution 29:275-299

Blumenschine, Robert J. 1995. Percussion marks, tooth marks, and experimental determinations of the timing of hominid and carnivore access to long bones at FLK Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution 29:21-51.

Blumenschine, Robert J., Curtis W. Marean, and Salvadore D. Capaldo. 1996. Blind tests of inter-analyst correspondence and accuracy in the identification of cut marks, percussion marks, and carnivore tooth marks on bone surfaces. Journal of Archaeological Science 23:493-507.

Buenger, Brent 2001 Patterns of Appendicular Skeletal Disarticulations: A Taphonomic Investigation of the Hudson-Meng Bonebed. Plains Anthropologist 46(175):

Butler, Virginia L. 1993. Natural versus cultural salmonid remains: Origin of the Dalles roadcut bones, Columbia River, Oregon, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science 20:1-24.

Butler, Virginia L. 1996. Tui chub taphonomy and the importance of marsh resources in the western Great Basin of North America. American Antiquity 61(4):699-717.

Canti, M. G. 2003. Earthworm activity and archaeological stratigraphy: A review of products and processes. Journal of Archaeological Science 30135-148.

Capaldo, Salvadore D. and Robert J. Blumenschine. 1994. A quantitative diagnosis of notches made by hammerstone percussion and carnivore gnawing on bovid long bones. American Antiquity 59(4):724-747.

Chase, Philp G. and April Nowell. 1998. Taphonomy of a suggested Middle Paleolithic bone flute from Slovenia. Current Anthropology 39(4):549-553.

Church, Robert R. and R. L. Lyman. 2003. Small fragments make small differences in efficiency when rendering grease from fractured artiodactyl bones by boiling. Journal of Archaeological Science 301077-1084.

Cruz-Uribe, Kathryn and Richard G. Klein. 1994. Chew marks and cut marks on animals bones from the Kasteelberg B and Dune Field Midden Later Stone Age Sites, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 2135-49.

Dibble, Harold L., Philip G. Chase, Shannon P. McPherron, and Alain Tuffreau. 1997. Testing the reality of a "living floor" with archaeological data. American Antiquity 62(4):629-651.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 2001 Shellfish Feeders, Carrion Eaters, and the Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations. American Antiquity 66(3):413-432.

Fisher, John W.Jr. 1995. Bone surface modifications in zooarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2(1):7-88.

Frison, George. 2000. Observations on pronghorn behavior and taphonomic analysis of bonebeds: Implications for analysis of the Eden-Farson Pronghorn Kill. In Pronghorn: Past and Present. Memoir 32, ed by Jana V. Pastor and Patrick M. Lubinski. Plains Anthropologist 45(174):29-37.

Frostick, Lynne and Ian Reid. 1983. Taphonomic significance of sub-aerial transport of vertebrate fossils on steep semi-arid slopes. Lethaia 16:157-164.

Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane P., et al. 1985. The third dimension in site structure: An experiment in trampling and vertical dispersal. American Antiquity 50(4):803-818.

Gregg, John B. and Pauline S. Gregg. 1993. Holes in bones: Trephination, artifacts, natural? South Dakota Archaeology 17:35-52.

Hill, Andrew. 1979. Butchery and natural disarticulation: An investigatory technique. American Antiquity 44(4):739-744.

Hill, Matthew E. Jr. 2002. The Milnesand Site: Site Formation Study of a Paleoindian Bison Bonebed in Eastern New Mexico. Plains Anthropologist 47(183):323-337.

Hill, Matthew E. Jr. 1996. Paleoindian bison remains from the 12 Mile Creek site in western Kansas. Plains Anthropologist 48(158):359-372.

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