Various predators are known to have ubiquitously contributed to the accumulation of fossil
microvertebrate assemblages in Quaternary depositional settings. Deciphering the …

The development of taphonomy has improved our knowledge of site formation and
palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. It has also stimulated many neotaphonomic analyses …

The oldest deposit at the hominin-bearing cave of Swartkrans, South Africa, is the Lower
Bank of Member 1, dated to ca. 2.2 million years ago. Excavations of this unit have produced …

Identifying the accumulating agent (s) of small animal assemblages at archaeological sites
is challenging given the range of behaviors, skeletal plans, and body sizes of prey species …

Holocene accumulations of rodent bones digested by raptors have been found in El Bolsón,
a high-altitude valley in Catamarca, Argentina. Yet, so far there were no relevant taphonomic …

Vertebrae represent a substantial fraction of fish remains recovered from archaeological
sites. The fragility of these skeletal elements under mechanical efforts causes deformations …

Since the founding work of Efremov in 1940 [1], the discipline called “taphonomy” has
developed considerably, and its importance is now unquestionable in terms of revealing the …