@article{b0df55e611a8432aab2ac76f72fc2d6a,
title = "FOCUS: on the use of the petrous bone for estimating cranial abundance in fossil assemblages",
abstract = "Low representation of braincase bones in zooarchaeological assemblages suggests that skulls have been intensively processed by Levantine Epipalaeolithic foragers; most cranial elements are often unidentifiable and are considered poor candidates for quantifying crania. In contrast, the petrous bone is usually found complete, and was found to be easily identifiable to body size category. Use of the petrous bone in fossil assemblages analyses leads to better estimation of the occurrence of cranial elements, and thus of skeletal part representation. We therefore suggest use of the petrous bone for detecting bone destruction and selective transport in faunal assemblages.",
keywords = "Braincase, Cranium, Petrous, Skeletal part representation, Taphonomy, Zooarchaeology",
author = "Guy Bar-Oz and Tamar Dayan",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Israel Hershkovitz for first showing us the petrous bone, Sapir Had for drawing the gazelle crania, and an anonymous reviewer for his thoughtful comments. Research was funded in part by the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant 147/04) and the Faculty of Humanities, University of Haifa.",
year = "2007",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.jas.2006.10.021",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "34",
pages = "1356--1360",
journal = "Journal of Archaeological Science",
issn = "0305-4403",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "9",
}