Animal Teeth and Human Tools

Christy G. Turner, II is Regents' Professor Emeritus of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University. He is internationally recognised for his work on human dentition and, more recently, for his taphonomic studies of cannibalism in the American Southwest. Nicolai D. Ovodov is Chief Research Collaborator at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk, Russia. He is well-known in Russia for his important contributions to Siberian palaeontology and palaeoanthropology. Olga V. Pavlova was a translator with the Russian Academy of Sciences for over 30 years in both the Institute of Geology and Geophysics and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction. What is perimortem taphonomy, and why study it in Siberia?; 2. Bone damage and its meaning; 3. The 30 Siberian archaeological and palaeontological sites, distributed from the Ob River to the Sea of Japan; 4. Discussion: analyses, comparisons, inferences, and hypotheses; 5. Conclusions for seven questions; Appendices; References; Index.

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