Human Burials
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چکیده
Taphonomic factors significantly affect the preservation of bone specimens that are ultimately available for examination by the researcher. Burial practices can disturb previous interments, as does rodent burrowing. Soil pH can greatly alter or destroy many smaller bone or bone with less density. Flooding and erosional episodes, as discussed in the last paper, can severely disturb burials. Finally, recovery methods reduce the true sample of bone which can be accounted for in the live population.
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