The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as
comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both …

Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the
dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology …

Gough's Cave is still Britain's most significant Later Upper Palaeolithic site. New ultrafiltered
radiocarbon determinations on bone change our understanding of its occupation, by …

This paper reviews four archaeological indicators of ritual behavior guided by two broad
hypotheses:(1) that evidence of costly ritual behavior will emerge at around 150,000 ybp as …

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British
Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years …

Projections of the sea level contribution from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (GrIS
and AIS) rely on atmospheric and oceanic drivers obtained from climate models. The Earth …

Methods The Koi chewed bones could only be analyzed with the naked eye and
photographed using a digital camera. European experimental bone collections and fossils …

During excavations of the Bronze Age levels at El Mirador Cave, a hole containing human
remains was found. Taphonomic analysis revealed the existence of cutmarks, human …

This second of two companion chapters intends to demonstrate that prehistoric war was not
ubiquitous, that it is in fact rare in very early archaeological records, and becomes common …

In this paper we present an experimental study of bone modifications caused by human
chewing during consumption. Traditionally, tooth marks have been attributed to non-human …