tel: (01274) 235736
email: h.russ@bradford.ac.uk
Research interests: Fish and cave taphonomy - digestion - Palaeolithic
and Mesolithic Europe - Ethnography
Lluis LLOVERAS
SERP. Departament de prehistoria, Historia Antiga i Arquelogia
Facultat de Geografia i Historia
Universitat de Barcelona
Montalegre 6
08001 BARCELONA
Spain
Ph: 34- 934037545 / 34- 617032905
Fx: 61 7 3406 8355
email: lluislloveras@ub.edu
Sue TURNER
Queensland Museum, Geology & Palaeontology Annex
122 Gerler Rd
Hendra, Queensland 4011 Ph: 61 7 3406 8348 or leave message at 3840 7555
Fx: 61 7 3406 8355
email: sue.turner@qm.qld.gov.au
My research interests encompass dead fish - all aspects of the taphonomy of fossil fish and comparativeliving information.
Katerina VASILEIADOU
Department of Geology
Royal Holloway University of London
TW20 0EX, Surrey, United Kingdom
Email: k.vasileiadou@gl.rhul.ac.uk, vassiliadou_k@yahoo.com
PhD 'Micromammalian assemblages from the Late Eocene of southern England:
accumulation historyand palaeocommunity reconstruction', at Royal Holloway
University of London & Natural HistoryMuseum (London) (2003-2006)
MSc. in Tectonics-Stratigraphy at School of Geology, Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, Greece(1998-2001); master project: 'Study of the Late Miocene/Early
Pliocene micromammalian fossilassemblage from Nea Silata Chalkidikis, North
Greece'
Degree in Geology at School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece (1993-1998);undergraduate project: 'Study of the micromammals from
a new Early Pleistocene locality in MygdoniaBasin, North Greece'
Erella HOVERS
Institute of Archaeology
The Hebrew University
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905
tel : 972-2-5882426
fax : 972-2-5825548
email : hovers@h2.hum.huji.ac.il
Mariana MONDINI
Laboratorio de Zooarqueología y Tafonomía
CONICET-Museo de Antropología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Av. H. Yrigoyen 174
(5000) Córdoba, Argentina
E-mail: mmonmun@mail.retina.ar
Research interests: tafonomía de carnívoros en los Andes Sudamericanos
/ carnivoretaphonomy inAndean South America.
Publications:
Mondini, N. M. 1995. Artiodactyl prey transport by foxes in Puna rock shelters.
CurrentAnthropology 36:520-524.
Mondini, N. M. y A. S. Muñoz 1996. El desarrollo de la tafonomía
en la arqueología argentina. Estadoactual y perspectivas. II Reunión
de Tafonomía y Fosilización (ed. por G. Meléndez Hevia,
M. F.Blasco Sancho e I. Pérez Urresti), pp. 255-258. Institución
Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza.
Mondini, M. 2000. Tafonomía de abrigos rocosos de la Puna. Formación
de conjuntos escatológicospor zorros y sus implicaciones arqueológicas.
Archaeofauna 9:151-164.
Mondini, N. M. 2001. Taphonomic action of foxes in Puna rockshelters. A case
study in Antofagastade la Sierra (Province of Catamarca, Argentina). In Ethnoarchaeology
of Andean South America:Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory
(L. A. Kuznar, ed.), pp.266-295. InternationalMonographs in Prehistory, AnnArbor.
Sebastián Muñoz
Laboratorio de Zooarqueología y Tafonomía
CONICET-Museo de Antropología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Av. H. Yrigoyen 174
(5000) Córdoba, Argentina
BOCHENSKI Zbigniew M.
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Slawkowska 17,31-016 Kraków, Poland.
Phone (Secretariat): (+48)(12)422 19 01
Fax: (+)48(12)422 42 94
Email: bochenski@isez.pan.krakow.pl
Sixto Rafael FERNANDEZ LOPEZ
Depto. Paleontologia
Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas
E - 28040 - Madrid (Spain)
Tlf.: (34) 91.394.48.66
Fax: (34) 91.394.48.49
E-mail: sixto@geo.ucm.es
http://www.ucm.es/info/paleo/personal/sixto.htm
LIPECKI Grzegorz
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy ofSciences,
Slawkowska 17,31-016 Kraków, Poland.
Phone (Secretariat): (+48)(12)422 19 01>
Fax: (+)48(12)422 42 94
Email: lipecki@isez.pan.krakow.pl
MIEKINA Barbara
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Slawkowska 17,31-016 Kraków, Poland.
Phone (Secretariat): (+48)(12)422 19 01>
Fax: (+)48(12)422 42 94
Email: miekina@isez.pan.krakow.pl
WOJTAL Piotr
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Slawkowska 17,31-016 Kraków, Poland.
Phone (Secretariat): (+48)(12)422 19 01
Fax: (+)48(12)422 42 94
Email: wojtal@isez.pan.krakow.pl<
Frank Joseph DIRRIGL Jr
361 Tolland Tpke
Willington CT 06279-1518 USA
Tel: 860-429-4831
Fax: 860-429-4831
Special Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut
U-2158, Manchester Hall Room 317
344 Mansfield Road
Storrs, Connecticut; 06269-2158
Email: fdirrigl@worldnet.att.net
Research Interests:
1) Prehistory of Native North America with geographic specialties in the
East and Great Basin CultureAreas;
2) Historical ecology to examine human-environment interrelationships among
Native Americans inprehistoric, historic, and contemporary contexts;
3) Using taphonomy and zooarchaeology to develop explanatory models regarding
the regionalvariability of bone remains preserved in the archaeological record;
4) Applied anthropology in studies of environmental science and both cultural
and natural resource management.
Publications:
1) 1997 Zooarchaeology Home Page (with BarryB aker).
http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/zhp.
2) 1995-1996 Revised checklist of the native terrestrial gastropods of New
Jersey (Mollusca:Gastropoda). Walkerana 8 (20):127-138 (Dirrigl Jr, Frank
J.,and Arthu rE. Bogan).
3) 1995 The utility of insect remains to assessing human burials: A Connecticut
case study.Archaeology of Eastern North America 23:1-7 (Dirrigl Jr, Frank
J., and Bernard Greenburg).
4) 1994 Exceptional preservation of a shell specimen at the Goldkrest Site(CNGTL470),
EastGreenbush, NewYork. The Bulletin, New York State Archaeological Association
107: 17-19.
5) Cryptotis parva (Say,1823) (Mammalia: Insectivora) in Connecticut.Connecticut
Journal ofScience Education 32(1):10-13.
6) 1993 An alternative method for preparing skeletons of fluid-fixed specimens
using dermestid beetles.Herpetological Review 24(3):93-94 (Dirrigl Jr, Frank
J.,Robert E. Dubos, and Philip E.Rusch)
7) 1991 Health issues concerning animal preparation. Pp. 44-47, in Guide
to the curation ofarchaeozoological collections (Erin Henry, ed.). Proceedings
of the curation workshop, InternationalCouncil of Archaeozoology, Sixth International
Conference, Washington, D.C., 105 pp.
8) 1989 Collection management and animal preparation standards for vertebrate
collections. Journal ofMiddle Atlantic Archaeology 5:1-28.
Also, my dissertation might be of interest to your members:
ZOOARCHAEOLOGY AND TAPHONOMY OF GALLINACEOUS BIRDS IN THENORTHEASTERN UNITED
STATES
Frank Joseph Dirrigl Jr., Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 1998
The poor preservation that often characterizes archaeology in the Northeast
demands that the formationprocesses and taphonomy of sites be examined, otherwise
(1) misinterpretations and incorrectdescriptions of human use of animals
will result, or (2) descriptions must rely greatly on theethnographic record.
While archaeologists in the region note and discuss the importance of considering
site formation and taphonomic processes, the specific factors affecting bone
preservation have receivedlittle assessment. This research project examines
two important factors: 1)the differences in bird bonesurvivorship caused
by bone mineral density, and 2) the differences in bird species identifiability
resulting from the differential preservation of bird skeletal remains.
This study considers two hypotheses. First, the bones of gallinaceous species
differ in their likelysurvival because of differences in bone mineral density
among fossil classes. Second, archaeologicalreports of gallinaceous species
of birds are dependent upon the variation in the ease with which theycan
be identified from recovered samples of their bones. I propose that the differential
survivorship ofdifferent fossil elements accounts for this variation in ease.
In my review of over 140 northeasternarchaeological samples, gallinaceous
bird remains overall tend to occur commonly; however, theabundance of their
body parts is low. The variation in this abundance between archaeological
samplesreflects a combination of the survivorship and analysis of bone, scavenging
by animals, and the huntingactivity of Native Americans. Using site samples
exhibiting little or no scavenging, I develop scales ofdifferential survivorship
and differential identifiability to correct for these biases.I provide these
scales toassist archaeologists with identifying the role that gallinaceous
birds play in the hunting activity of NativeAmericans in the northeastern
United States from 9,000 BC to 1,600 AD.
Eli LOTAN
Kinneret Moshawa 15105 Israel
tel 06 67 50 037 ; fax 011 972 667 09 255
Working on : Predation - diagenesis after experimental burial and histroy
of buried bones, at
The Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem - Israel 91904
Miriam BELMAKER
Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Berman-Lublin Bldg.,
The Hebrew University,Givat Ram, Jerusalem- Israel 91904
Robert R. CHURCH
POB 1988, Columbia MO 65205, USA
tel 573-446-6482
email : c620213@showme.missouri.edu
I am currently finishing my Master's work and will be starting my PhD
work next fall. My master's workhas been on the diagenetic changes caused
to bone that has been boiled, presumably to obtain bonegrease. I have used
X-ray microanalysis,SEM imaging, polarized-light microscopy of thin sections,
andporosity changes to document the histological differences between boiled
and unboiled bone. Peter DITCHFIELD Field of interest: stable isotopic environmental reconstruction. Andrew KOS Research Interests Other interests: Forensic taphonomy. Marylene PATOU-MATHIS Dr. James T. POKINES Research interests: Taphonomic publications: Matthews THALASSA Return to Table of Contents
I am currently working on several papers for publication; one reviewing my
MA work, one onpemmican use in North America, and one on the effects of acidic
environments on osteologicalmaterials. My PhD zooarchaeological work will
be the analysis of about 100 boxes (3 seasons) of boneexcavated from a prehistoric
site on the Columbia River, in SW Washington state.
Besides faunal analysis, I am very interested in domestication. I am very
interested in the domesticationof the ferret (Mustela putorius furo
), partially because so little is known, and partially because I likethe
little critters. Lastly, I am interested in paleoecology.
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street
- Cambridge - UK
Tel: 01223 333474 - Fax: 01223 333450
e-mail address: PWD1001@rock.esc.cam.ac.uk
Research student, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , Monash
University, Clayton, 3168Melbourne - Australia
email: acos@gizmo.maths.monash.edu.au
Taphonomy of small mammals in caves; pre- and post depositional modifications
of vertebrate fossils.Depositional processes and environments in cave systems,
and their effect on vertebrate fossils.Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
of cave deposits.
Laboratoire de prehistoire, Museum national d'histoire naturelle -
UMR 9948, Institut de paleontologiehumaine, 1 rue Rene Panhard- 75013 Paris-
FRANCE
tel (33) 01 43 31 62 91 - fax (33) 01 43 31 22 79
Patou-Mathis M. (1993) Etude taphonomique et paleoethnographique de la faune
de l'Abri desCanalettes. In L'abri des Canalettes (L. Meignen. coord), EdCNRS,monogr
du CRA n° 10, p. 199-237.
Patou-Mathis M. (1993) Taphonomic and paleoethnographic study of the fauna
associated with theNeanderthal of St Cesaire. In Context of a late Neandertal
(F.Leveque, A.M. Backer and M. Guilbaudcoord), Madison Wisconsin, Prehistory
Press, Monographs in word archaeology, n 6, p. 79-102.
Patou-Mathis M. (1994) Actions anthropiques sur les assemblages osseux et
sur les ossements duPaleolithique : etat des recherches. In outillage peu
elabore en os et enbois de cervides. Treignes, Ed.CEDARC, artefacts9, t.
IV taphonomie/bone modification (Patou-Mathis coord).,p. 133-142.
Patou-Mathis M. (1994) Archeozoologie des niveaux mousteriens et aurignaciens
de la grotte Tournala Bize (Aude). Gallia Prehistoire, 36, p. 1-64.
Patou-Mathis M. (1995) Zones d'activites, zones de dechets dans les gisements
en abri duPaleolithique : informations fournies par les ossements de grands
mammiferes. 6e colloque Inter. Soc.l'homme etl'animal, Geneve1994, Anthropozoologica,
21, p. 115-122.
Patou-Mathis M. (1995) Etude preliminaire de certaines pieces osseuses de
Stranska Skala (Moravie)presentant des stigmates d'intervention humaine.In
Stranska Skala Hill. Excavation of open-airsediments 1964-1972 (R. Musiled),
Brno, Moravian Museum, Antropos ser., 26, p. 169-176.
Patou-Mathis M., Boukhima H. (1996) Les grands mammiferes des grottes des
hyenes et du Pape aBrassempouy (Landes) : resultats preliminaires. 117e congr.
Nat. Soc. Sav., Pau 1993, ed. CTHS, p. 457-472.
Patou-Mathis M. (in press) Etudes taphonomique et paleoethnographique de
la faune de la couchecastelperronienne (EJOP sup) de Saint Cesaire (Charente
Maritime).In Monogr. sur St Cesaire(F.Leveque coord), 18 p.
Patou-Mathis M. (In press) Etude de la fracturation des os longs derenne;
methode et resultats : le niveau Magdalenien "archaique" de la grotte Tournal
aBize (Aude). in1993 bone modification conf., Hot Springs, South Dakota,USA.
Compiled by L.A. Hanuus and R.P.Winham, 8th intern. Meet. Working gr.1 (resp.Patou-Mathis).
Archeology Lab., Augustana Coll., Occ.Papers 1, 21 p.
Patou-Mathis M.(In press) Les outils osseux du Paleolithique inferieur et
moyen en Europe: problemes,methodes et resultats preliminaires. In Prehistoire
d'os, hommage a H. Camps-Fraber, 16 p.
Research Associate, Field Museum, Department of Mammals, Roosevelt
Road at Lake Shore Drive,Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Home phone: 1-773-384-2574
j-pokines-3@alumni.uchicago.edu (permanent forwarding address)
jpokine@ibm.net (current direct address)
Zooarchaeology; Human ecological adaptations; Hunter-gatherers; Taphonomy;
Mammalian ecologyand paleoecology; Raptor biology; Hunting and fishing technologies
and strategies; South America,Western Europe, Near East, Eastern Africa.
Pokines, J. T. (1998) Paleoenvironment of Cantabrian Spain during the Late
Pleistocene and humanecological relationships. Paper presented at the 8th
International Congress of the International Councilfor Archaeozoology, August
27, 1998, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Pokines, J. T. & J. Kerbis Peterhans (1998) Barn owl (Tyto alba
) taphonomy in the Negev Desert,Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology, 44(1):
19-27.
Pokines, J. T. (1998) Paleoecology of Lower Magdalenian Cantabrian Spain.
British ArchaeologicalReports, International Series 713.
Pokines, J. T. (1997) Microfaunal Indicators of Paleoenvironment from El
Juyo (Santander, Spain).Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University
of Chicago, 537 pp.
Dissertation Abstract (University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, 1997):
The terrestrial mammalian microfauna from the Lower Magdalenian site of El
Juyo(Santander, Spain)and related sites are used to reconstruct the paleoenvironment
of the Cantabrian regionTaphonomicanalysis indicates that these remains were
accumulated as a result of barn owl (Tyto alba ) pelletregurgitation
within the cave vestibule. The small mammalian fauna is dominated by microtines,
primarilyof the genera Arvicola and Microtus.The
late survival of the now extinct microtine speciesPliomyslenki is
also indicated. These data are compared with other sources (pollen, large
mammalianfauna, aquatic fauna, sea level changes and macrobotanical remains)
to produce a clearer picture of theLower Magdalenian setting. These sources
indicate that the climate was very humid and cold, withopen coastal heath
the dominant terrain type. Small areas of forest and grassland wer ealso
present.Larger microfauna (primarily mustelids) are posited to have entered
the cave as the result of human furtrapping activity, ince these are represented
almost exclusively by foot elements.
Human ecological adaptations are examined as they relate to this interpretation
of thepaleoenvironment. The pattern indicated is an increasing separation
of human adaptations from theconstraints of environment. These adaptations
focused upon the "wild harvesting" of concentratedresources (red deer, salmon,
and marine molluscs) with increasing efficiency, despite major fluctuations
in local climate.These changes in many ways presage the adaptations leading
to food production.
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