Sentences with word «taphonomy»

That said, the erosional trajectory or taphonomy of aluminum cans is pretty straightforward on the benthos.

Palaeontologists can decipher how ancient organisms lived and interacted using taphonomy, the study of how fossils form.

They range from a dig in Israel to skeletal taphonomy, from the development of the thoughts of Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin on human evolution to the debate about the status of Neanderthalers.

Working in collaboration with the municipal government of Subirats, which owns the land, the scientists intend to recover additional fossil remains which may contribute to improving the available information on the fauna, paleo - environment and taphonomy of the site as a whole and on the taxonomy and paleo - biology of specific species.

Thus, interpreting the Ardipithecus - bearing sediments requires that we deduce the physical and biological conditions under which the fossils accumulated and the degree to which these biases operated at the time of deposition — a practice called «taphonomy.»

Research interests: Paleoanthropology; Plio - Pleistocene hominin evolution; evolution of the genus Homo; paleoecology; taphonomy; Africa.

Research interests: Paleoanthropology; paleoecology, environmental context of human evolution; early hominid habitat use; taphonomy; zooarchaeology; East Africa; Oldowan

These include: 1) finding and describing new fossils in Precambrian strata, 2) using analytical tools to examine those fossils in order to determine taxonomic affinity, taphonomy, functional morphology, and paleoecology, 3) using modern analogs to determine phylogenetic relationships and physiology of early eukaryotes and animals, and 4) combining multiple sources of data to create a timeline of biotic and abiotic events in the Precambrian.

We were in Mongolia to investigate the taphonomy of eukaryotic microfossils between Cryogenian ice ages.