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What are the 7 Taphonomic Factors?
- Determing Triggering Event.
- Individual.
- Cultural Factors.
- Environmental Factors.
- Carcass Temperature and loss of blood.
- Atmospheric conditions.
- Location of Deposition of Body.
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"Individual" Taphonomic factors
Age, Body size, Cause of death, Physical Properties of Bone.
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"Cultural" Taphonomic Factors
Autopsies, Funeral Practices (embalming)
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"Environmental" Taphonomic Factors
Temperature outside, pH levels, Properties of Soil, Moisture Content
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"Scavenger" Taphonomic Factors
Insects, Rodents, Carnivores, Microbes (fungi)
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"Carnivores" Taphonic Factors
Mainly eat soft tissue, scalp, upper limbs/lower limbs will be disarticulated, large dispersal of remains, evisceration of thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities
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"Water" Taphonomic Factors
Temperature, Depth, or current of water
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"Burried" remains Taphonomic Factors
Less exposure to scavengers and insects, less exposure to weather, compaction of soil, moisture levels.
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