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| Title: | Taphonomic analysis of the Twilight Beach seals |
| Authors: | Nagaoka, Lisa
Wolverton, Steve
Fullerton, Ben
Clark, Geoffrey
Leach, Foss
O’Connor, Sue |
| Keywords: | Coastal archaeology
Coastal settlements
Island archaeology |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | ANU E Press |
| Series/Report no.: | Terra Australis
29 |
| Abstract: | Taphonomic studies have become an integral part of zooarchaeological research over the past
30 years. Understanding the processes that led to the samples of animal remains found in
archaeological sites is crucial for evaluating the validity of interpretations of these datasets (Klein
and Cruz-Uribe 1984; Lyman 1994a). It is important to recognise that taphonomic analysis, ‘as
the science of the laws of embedding or burial’ (Lyman 1994a:1), is not done for its own sake,
but to solve problems in zooarchaeological research (e.g. Gifford-Gonzalez 1991; Lyman 1994a;
Stiner 2005). The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of taphonomic analyses,
and provide an example of a detailed taphonomic analysis of a fauna – the Twilight Beach fauna
– related to particular research questions in New Zealand. |
| Description: | Chapter 30 of 'Islands of Inquiry' |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/47208 |
| ISBN: | 9781921313899
9781921313905 |
| Appears in Collections: | Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes
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