Thermo-alterations in skeletal remains result from circumstances that can be key to
understanding the context in which these appear. Here, we present the results of a series of …

Climate and environments have undergone significant changes throughout the Earth's
history, which are reflected in the faunal record. In that sense, small mammals provide …

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 …

Experiments based on the premise of uniformitarism are an effective tool to establish
patterns of taphonomic processes acting either before, or after, burial. One process that has …

The Kalahari has a powerful hold on the collective imagination as an environment of
extreme aridity where survival is a challenge. However, the current aridity of the Kalahari …

The regional climatic context in which Chalcolithic (MIR5) and Bronze Age (MIR4) levels
from El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) are framed is affected by the 4.2 …

The integral study of micromammals recovered from archaeological contexts provides a
number of contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of human occupation. In this …

Wonderwerk Cave, located in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, is a rare cave site
with a sequence of Acheulean occupation that is derived from activity within the cave rather …

Intra-crystalline protein degradation (IcPD) analysis was undertaken on 80 fossil tooth
enamel samples from four taxonomic groups (rhinocerotid, suid, equid, bovid) excavated …