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Carnivore Modifications

Carnivore Modifications is a taphonomic phenomenon characterized by skeletal alterations resulting from the feeding activities of carnivorous animals, distinguished from other postmortem changes by specific patterns of tooth marks, bone breakage, and digestion traces that provide evidence of biogenic origin within archaeological and paleontological contexts.

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Frequencies of Spiral and Green-Bone Fractures on Ungulate Limb Bones in Modern Surface Assemblages

Gary Haynes · American Antiquity · 1983 · 206 citations

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A study of dimensional differences of tooth marks (pits and scores) on bones modified by small and large carnivores

Miriam S. Andres, Agness Gidna, José Yravedra et al. · Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences · 2012 · 183 citations

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Taphonomic modifications produced by modern brown bears (<i>Ursus arctos</i>)

Palmira Saladié, Rosa Huguet, Antonio Rodríguez‐Hidalgo et al. · International Journal of Osteoarchaeology · 2011 · 102 citations

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Changing patterns of carnivore modification in a landscape bone assemblage, Amboseli Park, Kenya

J. Tyler Faith, Anna K. Behrensmeyer · Journal of Archaeological Science · 2006 · 94 citations

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A critical re-evaluation of bone surface modification models for inferring fossil hominin and carnivore interactions through a multivariate approach: Application to the FLK Zinj archaeofaunal assemblage (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Henry T. Bunn, José Yravedra · Quaternary International · 2013 · 93 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JY
    José Yravedra

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

    9 publications · 588 citations

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  2. MD
    Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

    6 publications · 413 citations

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  3. LA
    Lloyd A. Courtenay

    Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

    4 publications · 107 citations

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  4. EB
    Enrique Baquedano

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

    4 publications · 137 citations

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  5. RH
    Rosa Huguet

    Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Spain

    3 publications · 149 citations

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  1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, Spain

    8 h-index

    16 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Tarragona, Spain

    8 h-index

    22 publications

    1K citations

  3. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social

    Tarragona, Spain

    7 h-index

    21 publications

    1K citations

  4. Museo de San Isidro

    Madrid, Spain

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    750 citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    199 citations

  6. Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, Spain

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    357 citations

  7. Catholic University of Ávila

    Ávila, Spain

    4 h-index

    13 publications

    318 citations

  8. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    13 publications

    421 citations

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  1. Journal of taphonomy

    5 publications · 200 citations

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  2. PLoS ONE

    4 publications · 181 citations

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  3. Journal of Archaeological Science

    3 publications · 202 citations

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  4. Scientific Reports

    2 publications · 42 citations

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  5. Evolution

    2 publications · 82 citations

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