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Applied Zooarcheaology - Taphonomy - Coggle Diagram
Applied Zooarcheaology - Taphonomy
What is it?
Study of how organic remains pass from
biosphere
to the
lithosphere
Greek --> Burial law
To determine how plant and animal remains accumulate and differentially perserve within archaeological sites
Taphonomic process
Life assamblage
Death assamblage
Deposited assemblance
Biotic
Abiotic
Post-depositional Process
Fanal assamblage
Sample assamblage
Taphonomic changes
Physical
Mechanical (e.g. erosion)
Thermal (e.g cremation)
Chemical or Biological
Fungi, bacteria, beetles, etc.
Plant activity
Animals (e.g.predation)
Man (e.g. tomb robbing)
Multiple processing episodes of a single carcasses
starvation
Equifinality
How different historical processes may lead to similar outcome or social formation