A dead-serious scientist with a deceptively pixieish face and a mop of curly gray hair, Padian charges that dealers don't take the necessary pains in establishing fossils' taphonomy—the ...

This enabled me to record and analyze staining patterns with a greater degree of confidence that I am seeing a reflection of pigment application and taphonomy, rather than preservation bias." ...

Journal of Taphonomy 1, 115-141 (2003). Pobiner, B. L. & Braun, D. R. Strengthening the inferential link between cutmark frequency data and Oldowan hominid behavior: Results from modern butchery ...

Body farms are essentially outdoor laboratories where experiments using donated human cadavers investigate taphonomy - the science of decomposition. Worldwide there are several such facilities ...

Death is one of the most profound and inevitable events we experience as human beings. Despite its universality, much about ...

My research interests are broad and range from the influence of the K/T mass extinction on bivalve evolution, to the taphonomy and historical ecology of Holocene benthic mollusks in the Chesapeake Bay ...

Bison Ethology and Ecology Prehistoric Perishable Materials Culture and Technology Rockshelter and Cave Formation and Occupation Lithic Source Analysis Historic Archaeology Forensic Osteology ...

Over two half-day workshops students will learn about the principles of identification, taphonomy, basic quantification methods, and presentation of analytic results. Instruction is supported by hands ...

He has an interest in how some of these bizarre looking animals have been preserved – a branch of science known as taphonomy: “I have been looking at some fossils of softbodied animals that have been ...

This Research Topic targets interdisciplinary themes arising from the growth of exoplanetary research and biogenicity—the origin and distribution of life in the universe. By integrating insights from ...

My other research interests include the critical analysis and development of methods for osteological analysis in adults, including estimation of the biological profile, diagnosis of trauma and ...

Teodorescu 7. Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia K. Mikhailov, K. Sabath, and S. Kurzanov 8. Comparative taphonomy of some dinosaur and extant bird colonial nesting grounds J. R. Horner 9.