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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications
    sub title: 1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Mammal Bone Modification
  name:
    name part: Fernandez-Jalvo, Yolanda.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Andrews, Peter.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 359 p. 1131 illus., 311 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for identifying taphonomic modifications in the field, and for use in the laboratory when collections of fossils are being analyzed. Images in the book are a combination of scanning electron micrographs, regular photographs, cross-sections of bones and line drawings and graphs. By providing good quality illustrations of taphonomic modifications, with links between similar types of modification, the atlas provides a reference source for identifying the agents responsible for the modifications, the processes by which they were formed, and the potential bias introduced by the processes. The authors also aim to emphasize on the directions they consider taphonomic studies should be headed. Firstly, we should seek to quantify the degree of bias introduced into a fossil fauna and to take account of this bias before interpreting the palaeoecology of the fossil site. Secondly, we should recognize that taphonomic modifications increase the information encoded in fossils by identifying perimortem and postmortem contexts. T his provides a more dynamic and realistic view of the past.
  table of contents: Introduction and Rationale -- Methods in Taphonomy -- Part I: Surface Modifications -- Linear Marks -- Pits and Perforations -- Discoloration and Staining -- Part II: Modifications Affecting Shape -- Abrasion and Rounding -- Part III: Modifications Penetrating Bone Tissue -- Flaking and Cracking -- Corrosion and Digestion Corrosion -- Part IV: Modification by Loss of Bone Tissue or Skeletal Elements -- Breakage and Deformation -- Disarticulation and Completeness -- Part V: Conclusions -- Why Taphonomy?.
  note: by Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo, Peter Andrews.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
  identifier: 9789401774321
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7432-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 160728
    record change date: 20160920074846.0
    record identifier: 978-94-017-7432-1