Trampling as a cause of bone surface damage and pseudo-cutmarks

Behrensmeyer, Anna K.; Gordon, Kathleen D.; Yanagi, Glenn T.

doi:10.1038/319768a0

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“…A questão aqui, como no caso das fraturas, é que, muitas vezes, identificar o agente humano como o responsável pelos sinais observados nas superfícies ósseas não é tão simples, uma vez que, também nestes casos, vários agentes tafonômicos (carnívoros, roedores, abrasão, pisoteio de animais, raízes, entre outros) podem ocasionar alterações na superfície óssea semelhantes às marcas de cortes intencionais, produzidas por diversos instrumentos de corte (Behrensmeyer et al, 1986;Binford, 1981;Bunn, 1981;Olsen;Shipman, 1988;Potts;Shipman, 1981;Rose, 1983Rose, , 1984Walker;Long, 1977;White, 1992).…”

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Sepultamentos secundários com manipulações intencionais no Brasil: um estudo de caso no sítio arqueológico Pedra do Cachorro, Buíque, Pernambuco, Brasil

Solari

Silva

2017

Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Ciênc. hum.

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Resumo Este artigo apresenta o estudo de caso de um sepultamento secundário escavado no sítio Pedra do Cachorro, 760 ± 30 A.P., Buíque, em Pernambuco, Brasil, contendo remanescentes ósseos humanos de um indivíduo adulto, masculino, cuja análise bioarqueológica revelou sinais de descarnamento ativo do cadáver e outras evidências de manipulação intencional em ossos frescos, como cortes, fraturas, golpes e esmagamento. A metodologia de análise adotada para a identificação das manipulações perimortem nos ossos permite a reflexão acerca da complexidade desta prática funerária e do seu contexto em relação a outros achados arqueológicos da pré-história brasileira.

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Sepultamentos secundários com manipulações intencionais no Brasil: um estudo de caso no sítio arqueológico Pedra do Cachorro, Buíque, Pernambuco, Brasil

Solari

Silva

2017

Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Ciênc. hum.

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“…cannibalism or defleshing) (Figure 6). The typical micro-morphological characteristics of cut-marks (internal microstriations, shoulder effect and Hertzian cones) (Andrews and Cook, 1985;Behrensmeyer et al, 1986;Bello and Soligo, 2008;Boulestin, 1998;Greenfield, 1999;Shipman, 1981;Shipman and Rose, 1988;White and White, 1992) are absent on these modifications, which appear more rounded and wavy. They might be associated with natural bone features, but more likely are related to excavation or post-excavation damage such as removal of the wax used to consolidate the material on site (Garrod notebook, 1928).…”

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Sir Arthur Keith's Legacy: Re-discovering a lost collection of human fossils

Groote¹,

Bello²,

Kruszynski³

et al. 2014

Quaternary International

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“…However, it is the trampling activities of large mammals (cf. Andrews and Cook, 1985;Behrensmeyer et al, 1986), probably coming down to the channel to drink, that are considered here to have amplified the degree of bone breakage. Trampling not only fragments bone but also causes a wide range of surface scratches, gouges, scrapes and cuts, some of which may superficially resemble butchery marks.…”

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The taphonomy of a Middle Devensian (MIS 3) vertebrate assemblage from Lynford, Norfolk, UK, and its implications for Middle Palaeolithic subsistence strategies

Schreve

2006

J Quaternary Science

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The association of a rich lithic assemblage with a Middle Devensian mammalian assemblage at Lynford was initially thought indicative of a mammoth butchery locality, a rare occurrence for a European Middle Palaeolithic open site. However, taphonomic analyses suggest that the specimens have very different depositional histories and were incorporated into a palaeochannel in several stages. Most specimens are extremely fragmentary, probably the result of extensive trampling, and signs of weathering and root-damage provide further indications of exposure before burial. Carnivore damage is minimal but establishing the degree of interaction between the mammal fauna and alternative predators, such as Neanderthals, is problematic. Direct evidence of butchery is not present and the best indication of any form of mammoth exploitation lies in more circumstantial evidence such as the virtual absence of long bones from the main channel deposit and the mammoth age profiles. Instances of pathologies are also unusually common in the mammoths, implying that their greater vulnerability may have led to an accelerated demise either naturally or at the hands of a predator. The best evidence for direct faunal exploitation at the site is from green bone fractures and broken teeth that suggest marrow extraction in horse, reindeer and woolly rhinoceros.

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Trampling as a cause of bone surface damage and pseudo-cutmarks

Cited by 408 publications

References 13 publications

Sepultamentos secundários com manipulações intencionais no Brasil: um estudo de caso no sítio arqueológico Pedra do Cachorro, Buíque, Pernambuco, Brasil

Sepultamentos secundários com manipulações intencionais no Brasil: um estudo de caso no sítio arqueológico Pedra do Cachorro, Buíque, Pernambuco, Brasil

Sir Arthur Keith's Legacy: Re-discovering a lost collection of human fossils

The taphonomy of a Middle Devensian (MIS 3) vertebrate assemblage from Lynford, Norfolk, UK, and its implications for Middle Palaeolithic subsistence strategies

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