The dry and the wet: The variable effect of taphonomy on the dog remains from the Kohika Lake Village, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

Abstract

Since the mid 1980s, there have been several detailed taphonomic studies on New Zealand faunal assemblages, summarised by Allen and Nagaoka (2004:207–209), and these, not surprisingly given the breadth of his zooarchaeological publications, have included a contribution by Atholl Anderson (Anderson et al. 1996). However, most of these studies have been concerned with bones recovered from dry-land sites, whereas bone preserved under very different conditions in wetland archaeological sites has received little consideration.