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Animal Teeth and Human Tools: A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia
Christy G. Turner Ii
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Description for Animal Teeth and Human Tools: A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia
hardcover. A unique study of Ice Age human and carnivore bone damage and its importance in understanding ancient life in Siberia. Num Pages: 500 pages, 271 b/w illus. 33 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3B; HDDA; JHMP; PSXE; RBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 180 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1152.
The culmination of more than a decade of fieldwork and related study, this unique book uses analyses of perimortem taphonomy in Ice Age Siberia to propose a new hypothesis for the peopling of the New World. The authors present evidence based on examinations of more than 9000 pieces of human and carnivore bone from 30 late Pleistocene archaeological and palaeontological sites, including cave and open locations, which span more than 2000 miles from the Ob River in the West to the Sea of Japan in the East. The observed bone damage signatures suggest that the conventional prehistory of Siberia needs ... Read more
The culmination of more than a decade of fieldwork and related study, this unique book uses analyses of perimortem taphonomy in Ice Age Siberia to propose a new hypothesis for the peopling of the New World. The authors present evidence based on examinations of more than 9000 pieces of human and carnivore bone from 30 late Pleistocene archaeological and palaeontological sites, including cave and open locations, which span more than 2000 miles from the Ob River in the West to the Sea of Japan in the East. The observed bone damage signatures suggest that the conventional prehistory of Siberia needs ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107030299
SKU
V9781107030299
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About Christy G. Turner Ii
Christy G. Turner, II is Regents' Professor Emeritus of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University. He is internationally recognised for his work on human dentition and, more recently, for his taphonomic studies of cannibalism in the American Southwest. Nicolai D. Ovodov is Chief Research Collaborator at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk, Russia. He ... Read more
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