Fragments of information: preliminary taphonomic results from the Middle Palaeolithic breccia layers of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel

Mina Evron, Guy Bar-Oz, Perry Livne, Yossi Zaidner

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Abstract

Bone remains embedded in breccia layers are common in numerous prehistoric cave sites in karstic regions. Archaeological breccia is a type of indurated cave sediment in which anthropogenic residues are incorporated, including lithics and occasionally bone remains (Haughton 1947; Brain 1958; Wilkinson 1983). Although the preservation of bones in cave breccias may be extremely good (Brain 1981), their excavation presents a number of difficulties. The major problem is that bones are much more fragile than the surrounding matrix. Therefore, in many cases, when a bone specimen is discovered, it is only after it has been already broken, sometimes into many...
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiosphere to Lithosphere: New studies in vertebrate taphonomy
EditorsTerry O’Connor
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP)
Pages126-134
StatePublished - 2002

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