Pat Shipman sets forth the taphonomic methods of analyzing how animal remains are acted upon and altered, both by biological and by geographic phenomena, in their passage from the biosphere of bones and carcass into the lithosphere of fossils. She explains the role of disease, predation, accidents, postmortem destruction, and transport in the life history of a fossil, and provides an introduction to the relevant geological concepts and to faunal analysis.
- ISBN10 0674530853
- ISBN13 9780674530850
- Publish Date 16 September 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English