Taphonomic and methodological problems of interpreting animal bones from archaeological sites : their application on bone assemblages from Greece and England

Differential bone loss caused by various taphonomic agents introduces serious bias in archaeozoological assemblages and interferes with the estimation of species proportions, mortality profiles, sex ratios and patterns of skeletal element representation. Inherent characteristics of bones have been s...

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Main Author: Ioannidou, Evangelia
Published: University of Leicester 1999
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.696671