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Author Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel.

Title Deconstructing Olduvai : a taphonomic study of the Bed 1 sites / by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rebeca Barba Egido and Charles P. Egeland
Published Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 337 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series
Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology.
Contents The "home base" debate / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, C.P. Egeland and R. Barba -- The hunting-versus-scavenging debate / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, C.P. Egeland and R. Barba -- The "physical attribute" taphonomic approach / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, C.P. Egeland and R. Barba -- Geological and paleoecological overview of Olduvai Gorge / C.P. Egeland. M. Domínguez-Rodrigo and R. Barba -- New estimates of tooth-mark and percussion-mark frequencies at the FLK Zinjanthropus level : the carnivore-hominid-carnivore hypothesis falsified. 1 / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo and R. Barba -- The behavioral meaning of cut marks at the FLK Zinj level : the carnivore-hominid-carnivore hypothesis falsified. 2 / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo and R. Barba -- A cautionary tale about early archaeological sites : a reanalysis of FLK North 6 / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo [and others] -- A palimpsest at FLK North 1-2 : independent carnivore- and hominid-made bone accumulations / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo and R. Barba -- A taphonomic study of FLK North 3 and 4 : a felid-hyaenid and hominid palimpsest / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, R. Barba and E. Organista -- Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of FLK North 5 / C.P. Egeland -- Natural background bone assemblages and their ravaging stages in Olduvai Bed 1 / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo and E. Organista -- FLK North North 1 : "living floor" or natural accumulation? / R. Barba and M. Domínguez-Rodrigo -- Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of FLK North North 2 / C.P. Egeland -- Reanalysis of FLK North North 3 : yet another case of a palimpsest? / M. Domínguez-Rodrigo and R. Barba -- Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of of the DK site / C.P. Egeland
Summary Plio-Pleistocene sites are a rare occurrence in same sites. This combination of factors is the archaeological record. When they are unique in East African Plio-Pleistocene uncovered, the faunal materials so crucial to archaeology and has stimulated much debate unlocking their behavioral meaning are often over the socioeconomic function of early sites. poorly preserved. For example, at Koobi Fora, Influential models of early hominid behavior Kenya, a prolific region that preserves several in the late 1960s and early 1970s were based classic Plio-Pleistocene sites, many bones are exclusively on information from Olduvai affected by poor cortical surface preservation Gorge (Leakey, 1971). Although Isaac's (e. g., (Isaac, 1997). Such taphonomic vagaries limit 1978) work at Koobi Fora expanded their the range of questions that can be addressed application, the subsequent critiques, modi- with these assemblages. In other instances, cations, and reformulations of these models access to materials can be limited due to local were based almost solely on studies from politics or rivalries between individual Olduvai (Binford, 1981, 1984; Bunn, 1981; research teams. As a result, many important Potts, 1982, 1988; Bunn and Kroll, 1986; assemblages either remain unstudied or have Blumenschine, 1995; Rose and Marshall, been interpreted without the advantage of a 1996; Domínguez-Rodrigo, 1997a, 2002; fully developed taphonomic framework, a sit- Plummer, 2004). Having said that, it is also uation that all but guarantees stagnant inter- clear that continued work at Koobi Fora and pretations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Fossil hominids -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge
Paleontology -- Pleistocene.
Paleoanthropology -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge
Animals, Fossil -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge
Fossil hominids -- Tanzania.
Paleoanthropology.
paleoanthropology.
NATURE -- Fossils.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Animals, Fossil
Antiquities
Fossil hominids
Paleoanthropology
Paleontology
Pleistocene Geologic Epoch
SUBJECT Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) -- Antiquities
Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002447
Subject Tanzania
Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge
Form Electronic book
Author Barba Egido, Rebeca.
Egeland, Charles P.
ISBN 9781402061523
1402061528
1402061501
9781402061509