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  title info:
    title: Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites
  name:
    name part: Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Egido, Rebeca Barba.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Egeland, Charles P.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 292 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: The “home base” debate -- The Hunting-versus-scavenging debate -- The “physical attribute” taphonomic approach -- Geological and paleoecological overview of Olduvai Gorge -- New estimates of tooth-mark and percussion-mark frequencies at the FLK Zinjanthropus level: the carn -- The behavioral meaning of cut marks at the FLK Zinj level: the carnivore-hominid-carnivore hypothesis falsified (II) -- A cautionary tale about early archaeological sites: a reanalysis of FLK North 6 -- A palimpsest at FLK North 1-2: independent carnivore- and hominid-made bone accumulations -- A taphonomic study of FLK North 3 and 4: a felid-hyaenid and hominid palimpsest -- Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of FLK North 5 -- Natural background bone assemblages and their ravaging stages in Olduvai Bed I -- FLK North North 1: “living floor” or natural accumulation? -- Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of FLK North North 2 -- Reanalysis of FLK North North 3: yet another case of a palimpsest? -- Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of the DK site.
  note: by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rebeca Barba Egido, Charles P. Egeland.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  classification: HM545
  classification: 301
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  identifier: 9781402061523
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6152-3
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