Fish heads, fish heads: An experiment on differential bone preservation in a salmonid fish

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 175-181

  Lubinski, Patrick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone Diagenesis; Cooking; pH; Salmonid archaeofaunas; Skeletal Part Representation; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BONE; DIAGENESIS; FISH; SALMONID; TAPHONOMY;

EID: 0029729144     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1996.0015     Document Type: Article

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