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A taphonomic study of seal remains from archaeological sites on the Western Cape coast
Bibliography: leaves 238-259.
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| author | Woodborne, Stephan Mark |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9482 A taphonomic study of seal remains from archaeological sites on the Western Cape coast Woodborne, Stephan Mark Parkington, John Smith, Andrew Archaeology Bibliography: leaves 238-259. A method of interpreting the seal body part representation from archaeological sites is presented and applied to three Holocene archaeological assemblages from the west coast of South Africa. The approach that is developed integrates several different methods that have previously been applied to terrestrial species, but that, with few exceptions, have not be.en employed in the analysis of seal remains. Most of the existing taphonomic indices cannot be applied to seals because of their unique physiology. Appropriate field observations and laboratory measurements are used to construct taphonomic indices that can be widely applied to seal bone assemblages. These include: a hardness index that mediates bone destruction through mechanical attrition, a utility index that mediates differential transport of body elements, and two indices that mediate the impact of carnivore ravaging - the carcass consumption sequence, and the carnivore destructive template. A new approach that caters for the simultaneous application of several taphonomic indices to an assemblage, where previously they have been applied individually or in pairs, is developed. In addition to the taphonomic indices, a method of determining ontogenic age is presented, and the potential limits of seal storage are explored. 2014-11-10T08:57:41Z 2014-11-10T08:57:41Z 1996 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9482 eng application/pdf Department of Archaeology Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Archaeology Woodborne, Stephan Mark A taphonomic study of seal remains from archaeological sites on the Western Cape coast |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | A taphonomic study of seal remains from archaeological sites on the Western Cape coast |
| title_full | A taphonomic study of seal remains from archaeological sites on the Western Cape coast |
| title_fullStr | A taphonomic study of seal remains from archaeological sites on the Western Cape coast |
| title_full_unstemmed | A taphonomic study of seal remains from archaeological sites on the Western Cape coast |
| title_short | A taphonomic study of seal remains from archaeological sites on the Western Cape coast |
| title_sort | taphonomic study of seal remains from archaeological sites on the western cape coast |
| topic | Archaeology |
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