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Foreword | |
Preface | |
Introduction | |
History and Background | |
Taphonomy: Its History and Role in Community Evolution | |
Paleogeomorphology and Continental Taphonomy | |
Modern Ecology and Models for the Past | |
Linking the Ecology of Past and Present Mammal Communities | |
The Role of Modern Ecological Studies in Reconstruction of Paleoenvironments in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
Taphonomy in Modern Environments | |
The Recent Bones of Amboseli National Park, Kenya, in Relation to East African Paleoecology | |
Ethnoarcheological Contributions to the Taphonomy of Human Sites | |
Some Criteria for the Recognition of Bone-Collecting Agencies in African | |
Early Postmortem Damage to the Remains of Some Contemporary East African Mammals | |
Taphonomy in the Laboratory | |
Fluvial Taphonomic Processes: Models and Experiments | |
Functional Anatomy and Taphonomy | |
Trace Elements in Bones as Paleobiological Indicators | |
Organic Geochemistry of Bone and Its Relation to the Survival of Bone in the Natural Environment | |
Paleoecology | |
The Interpretation of Mammalian Faunas from Stone-Age Archeological Sites, with Special Reference to Sites in the Southern Cape Province, South Africa | |
The Significance of Bovid Remains as Indicators of Environment and Predation Patterns | |
Community Evolution in East Africa during the Late Cenozoic | |
Conclusion | |
References | |
List of Contributors | |
Index | |
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