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10 th International Plant Taphonomy Meeting. Held November 20-21, 1999 in
Leeds, United Kingdom.
Web site: http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/tapho/leeds.html
6th International Workshop on Plant Taphonomy. Held November, 1994, Bonn,
Germany.
Proceedings Published in dedicated 1996 issue of Neues Jahrbuch Fur
Geologie Und Palaontologie Abhandlungen, 202(2). Text
in English. Abstracts in English and German.
Additional Published Proceedings
Behrensmeyer, A.K., and Hill, A.P. (1980). Fossils in the making: vertebrate taphonomy
and paleoecology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Part of a published series on “Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology”, this volume
brings together papers presented at a symposium held in July, 1976, entitled
“Taphonomy and Vertebrate Paleoecology, with Special Reference to the Late
Cenozoic of Sub-Sarahan Africa” (Burg Wartenstein Symposium No. 69). Papers fall
into a range of categories, including the history of taphonomic studies, implications
for studies of modern ecology, archaeological taphonomy, taphonomic methodology,
and applications in paleoecology.
Bonnichsen, R., and Sorg, M.H. (eds.). (1989). Bone Modification. Orono, ME: Center for
the Study of the First Americans, Institute for Quaternary Studies, University of Maine.
A dedicated collection of bone studies in archaeology and paleontology. Reviews
methods of interpreting various physical forces on bone, and tools used to examine
and catalog bone modifications. Text includes eleven archaeological case studies
Papers were originally presented at the first International Conference on Bone
Modification, held in Carson City, Nevada in 1984.
Huntley, J.P., and Stallibrass, S. (eds.). (2000). Taphonomy and interpretation. Oxford:
Oxbow Books.
Articles presented at the 1993 annual conference of the Association for
Environmental Archaeology, held at Durham University, September 18-21, 1993.