Preliminary taphonomical studies of some Pleistocene fauna from the Central Narmada Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India

Badam, G. L.; Ganjoo, R. K.; Salahuddin, Salahuddin

doi:10.1016/0031-0182(86)90067-2

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“…Overall, the 50-25 ka period is a period of widespread fluvial aggradation in India as seen from the studies on alluvial sequences in Gujarat alluvial plain (Tandon et al, 1997;Juyal et al, 2000;Maurya et al, 2000), Maharashtra upland rivers (Kale and Rajaguru, 1987), Central Narmada (Badam et al, 1986;Gupta et al, 1999;Kale et al, 2003), Son and Belan valleys (Williams and Clarke, 1984) and the Indo-Gangetic plain (Singh, 1996). Well dated global fluvial sediment records from Guadalope basin in Spain (Fuller et al, 1998), the entire Mediterranean region (Macklin et al, 2002), Thames River (Maddy et al, 2001), Mississippi River (Autin, 1996;, and Australia (Nanson et al, 1992;Kershaw and Nanson, 1993) also suggest enhanced fluvial aggradation under humid climate during the 50 -30 ka time period.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…The boulder bed has been attributed to an extraordinary flood or series of great floods (Kale et al, 2003) which suggests existence of humid climate in the upper reaches of the Narmada river during Late Pleistocene. The rich mammalian fauna found in the Late Pleistocene deposits in central and upper Narmada basin has also led to the conclusion that the Central India was a mosaic of dense forests, park savannas and water bodies (Badam et al, 1986) during this period. The Narmada River in the Late Pleistocene has been inferred to be a mobile meandering river which carried large quantities of sand (Gupta et al, 1999) with periods of large floods (Kale et al, 2003).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Late Pleistocene fluvial sediments exposed in the 15-20 m high cliffs in upper and middle reaches of the Narmada River (Gupta et al, 1999;Ely et al, 1996;Kale et al, 2003) have been studied mainly for their rich mammalian fauna and archaeological artefacts (Badam et al, 1986;Biswas, 1997;Mishra and Rajaguru, 2001). The sediments comprise massive silts, cross bedded sands and layers of gravels and boulders (Gupta et al, 1999) though no stratigraphic or sedimentologic details are available on them as yet.…”

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Late Pleistocene alluvial plain sedimentation in Lower Narmada Valley, Western India: Palaeoenvironmental implications

Bhandari

Maurya

Chamyal

2005

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

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Late Pleistocene alluvial plain sedimentation in Lower Narmada Valley, Western India: Palaeoenvironmental implications

Bhandari

Maurya

Chamyal

2005

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

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“…No tocante às fraturas, Shipman et al (1981) propõem que as lisas ou irregulares (ver Tabela 1) podem ser produzidas na fase pós-fossilização, por outro lado, Badam et al (1986) discordam no que diz respeito às fraturas irregulares perpendiculares, relatando que estas podem ser geradas pela ação do desgaste ou do pisoteio de ossos na fase pré-fossilização. Para Cladera et al (2004), as fraturas perpendiculares ao maior eixo do osso obedecem aos processos ocorridos durante a etapa fossildiagenética.…”

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Tafonomia da assembleia fossilífera de mamíferos da “Fenda 1968”, bacia de São José de Itaboraí, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Bergqvist¹,

Almeida²,

Araújo³

2011

Rev. bras. paleontol.

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-TAPHONOMY OF THE FOSSIL MAMMALS ASSEMBLAGE OF THE "1968 FISSURE", SÃO JOSÉ DE ITABORAÍ BASIN, RIO DE JANEIRO STATE, BRAZIL. Significant amount of taxonomic information has beenextracted from fossil mammal assemblages of the São José de Itaboraí Basin, located at Rio de Janeiro State, Southeastern Brazil. However, taphonomic analysis, which are important for understanding the formation of these taphocoenosis, are rare and superficial. A limestone fissure excavated in 1968 (here called "1968 Fissure") stands out among the several known fossiliferous concentrations by its abundance of skeletal elements and by the unique brownish color of the specimens, which differentiate them from those collected in other fissures. This study aims to identify and interpret taphonomic features observed in the taphocoenosis "1968 Fissure", which include fractures, abrasion marks, desiccation marks, teeth marks, bone representativeness, and preservational patterns diagnostic for the occurrence and type of transport during the formation of fossiliferous concentration. Based on taphonomic analysis, the mammal taphocoenosis of the "1968 Fissure" is characterized as parautochthonous, being exposed for a short time before being deposited in the fissure after a short transport, possibly triggered by floods. Probably, predators did not influence the formation of the fossil assemblage studied. Only small mammals occur in the fissure due to a possible selection during the bioestratinomic phase. During the fossildiagenetic phase, several fractures were produced in the material due to compression generated by sediment deposition in the fissure. The observed pattern in the skeletal completeness shows the influence of anatomical features of mammals in differential preservation of skeletal remains during the process of fossilization.Key words: taphonomy, "1968 Fissure", São José de Itaboraí Basin, mammals, Itaboraian mammal age.RESUMO -Quantidade significativa de informações taxonômicas tem sido extraída das assembleias fossilíferas de mamí-feros da bacia de São José de Itaboraí, situada no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Porém, análises tafonômicas, importantes para o conhecimento da formação dessas tafocenoses, são raras e superficiais. Dentre as várias assembleias fossilíferas desta bacia destaca-se a procedente de uma fenda escavada em 1968 (denominada "Fenda 1968"), pela abundância e pela coloração marrom dos elementos esqueletais, que os diferencia dos fósseis procedentes das demais fendas. Este estudo tem como objetivo a identificação e interpretação de feições tafonômicas observadas na tafocenose da "Fenda 1968", as quais incluem fraturas, marcas de desgaste, de dentes e de dessecação, representatividade óssea, além de padrões preservacionais diagnós-ticos para a ocorrência e o tipo de transporte durante a formação desta concentração fossilífera. Com base na análise tafonômica, a tafocenose da "Fenda 1968" caracteriza-se como parautóctone, tendo ficado exposta por pouco tempo antes de ser depositada no interior da fenda por um curto tr...

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“…that specific fracture types within these (and other) systems are highly subject to equifinality on at least one important level (e.g. Dart, 1957;Zierhut, 1967;Sadek-Kooros, 1972Noe-Nygaard, 1977;Bonnichsen, 1979;Shipman & Phillips, 1976Haynes, 1980Haynes, , 1983Haynes, , 1988Myers et al, 1980;Binford, 1981;Lyman, 1989Lyman, , 1994Johnson, 1985a;Badam et al, 1986;Gibert et al, 1992Gibert et al, , 1993Charles, 1998;Marean et al, 2000). For example, although Villa & Mahieu's (1991) system of fracture angle analysis does reliably inform about the condition of bones when originally fractured (i.e.…”

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The contribution of limb bone fracture patterns to reconstructing early hominid behaviour at Swartkrans cave (South Africa): archaeological application of a new analytical method

Pickering

Domı́nguez-Rodrigo

Egeland

et al. 2005

Int. J. Osteoarchaeol.

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Recently, Alcá ntara García et al. (in press) presented a new method and criteria for distinguishing between fractures imparted by hominid hammerstone percussion and carnivores chewing on 'green' limb bones of ungulates. The method uses a combination of fracture plane and fracture angle data that are useful for elucidating the relative role of hominids in the accumulation of prehistoric archaeofaunas, especially when employed in concert with other classes of taphonomic data. We briefly summarise the method and apply it to the ungulate limb bone subassemblage from Swartkrans Member 3, a c. 1.0 million year old site from South Africa that preserves Early Stone Age lithic artefacts, hominid fossils, and an abundant mammalian fauna with cutmarked, hammerstone-percussed and burned bone specimens.Results of the fracture pattern analysis corroborate indications from other lines of taphonomic data that there was minimal carnivore-hominid interdependence in the formation of the fauna, and that carnivores were probably responsible for the majority of the bone collection in Member 3. However, we also document a significant hominid influence on assemblage formation, a finding that expands and refines our understanding of large animal carcass foraging by hominids in southern Africa during the early Pleistocene.

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Preliminary taphonomical studies of some Pleistocene fauna from the Central Narmada Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

Late Pleistocene alluvial plain sedimentation in Lower Narmada Valley, Western India: Palaeoenvironmental implications

Late Pleistocene alluvial plain sedimentation in Lower Narmada Valley, Western India: Palaeoenvironmental implications

Tafonomia da assembleia fossilífera de mamíferos da “Fenda 1968”, bacia de São José de Itaboraí, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

The contribution of limb bone fracture patterns to reconstructing early hominid behaviour at Swartkrans cave (South Africa): archaeological application of a new analytical method

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