Product Description
In recent years archaeologists and paleontologists have become increasingly interested in how and why vertebrate animal remains become, or do not become, fossils. Vertebrate Taphonomy introduces interested researchers to the wealth of analytical techniques developed by archaeologists and paleontologists to help them understand why prehistoric animal remains do or do not preserve, and why those that preserve appear the way they do. This book is comprehensive in scope, and will serve as an important work of reference for years to come.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 2 reviews)

Evaluation of Vertebrate Taphonomy

Overall, I have found this text to be rather useful, thus far, as an informative guide to the study of taphonomic processes. It also provides fairly detailed information regarding the methodological steps involved in faunal analysis at archaeological sites. The skeletal diagrams of different classes of animals (i.e. birds vs. mammals) have also been helpful with regard to cross-class structural comparison of related skeletal elements.
September 30, 2008

A must have for any archaeologist.

A long, technical, and amazing compilation of what every zooarchaeologist should know. Not for the beginner.
December 21, 1999

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