This work at Makapansgat began a research interest in the institute which is still actively pursued today namely, research into'taphonomy' literally the'laws of burial', or the study of the processes involved in the history of an organism from death to ultimate fossilisation and discovery.
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Her dissertation, published in 1975, showed that the composition of the fossil vertebrate faunas of East Turkana, Kenya, varied with sedimentary environment ( channel, floodplain, lake margin ), and this provide new information on the taphonomy and paleoecology of hominin-bearing, Plio-Pleistocene sediments.
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Since 1980 the taxonomy ( relationships ), taphonomy ( how the animals became embedded and fossilized ), biomechanics ( how their skeletons worked ), and palaeobiology ( life circumstances ) of " Plateosaurus " have been re-studied in detail, altering the interpretation of the animal's biology, posture and behaviour.
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"' Christy G . Turner II "'( November 28, 1933, Columbia, Missouri July 27, 2013, Tempe, Arizona ) was an American anthropologist known for his research on dental anthropology, perimortem taphonomy, and his theories about the populating of the American continent in three migrating waves from Northeast Asia, which received support from genetic research.
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He then summarized the findings of his research spanning nearly 20 years in the authoritative volume entitled, " Hunters or the Hunted ? : An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy " ( 1981 ) ( named after Washburn's famous article, see above ), which corroborated Washburn's hypothesis that early Australopiths were not, in fact, responsible for associated fossil accumulations found throughout southern Africa.
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Zherikhin was one of the lead authors of the multi-authored monograph " Historical development of the class Insecta " edited by his long term collaborators Boris Borisovitsch Rohdendorf and Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn, as well as the much expanded English language " History of Insects ", to which he contributed chapters on the patterns of insect burial ( taphonomy ), past terrestrial ecology, trace fossils, and on thrips and praying mantids.
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The Hauptmann finding was cited in " A Treatise on Diseases of the Hair " ( 1912 ) by Jackson, p . 71 should provide a modern answer to the question of the effect of submersion after death on hair color, but I did not find the specfic information . " Advances in Forensic Taphonomy " ( 2001 ) p 123 says " Hair color is usually modified as a result of burial and early decomposition " Melanin ( dark hair ) becomes lighter, and hair of those buried a long time ( archeological samples ) tends to make it " ginger " or reddish.
