Taphonomic skeletal disturbances in the Sima de los Huesos postcranial remains
Authors
Sala Burgos, NohemiIdentifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/64511DOI: 10.1002/ar.25197
PMID: 36877151
ISSN: 1932-8486
Date
2023-03-06Academic Departments
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Geología, Geografía y Medio Ambiente
Teaching unit
Unidad Docente Antropología Física
Funders
European Research Council
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Bibliographic citation
Sala, N. et al. (2024) ‘Taphonomic skeletal disturbances in the Sima de los Huesos postcranial remains’, Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007), 307(7), pp. 2437–2450. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25197.
Keywords
Middle Pleistocene hominins
Bone breakage
Taphonomy
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14 p.
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Abstract
The postcranial skeleton of fossil hominins is crucial for reconstructing the processes that occurred between the time of death and the recovery of the bones. Thousands of postcranial skeletal fragments from at least 29 hominin individuals have been recovered from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site in Spain. This study's primary objective is to address the main taphonomic features of the postcranial remains from the Sima de los Huesos sample, including antemortem, perimortem, and postmortem skeletal disturbances. We present an updated assessment of the bone surface modification analysis, the fracture pattern analysis, and the skeletal part representation to facilitate interpretation of the biostratinomic and fossil-diagenetic processes in this large paleoanthropological collection. We conclude that carnivores (probably bears) had limited access to the hominin bones and complete bodies were probably placed in the site.
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