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标题：Las termitas como agentes naturales de alteraciones tafonómicas postdepositacionales en un esqueleto humano del sitio arqueológico Toca do Enoque (Piauí, Brasil)
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作者：Ana Solari ; Anne Marie Pessis ; Gabriela Martin 等
期刊名称：Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica
印刷版ISSN：1853-6387
出版年度：2020
卷号：22
期号：1
页码：16-16
DOI：10.24215/18536387e016
出版社：Universidad Nacional de La Plata
摘要：Termites are insects that often appear in archaeological contexts in Brazil, that are almost never studied as natural processes of deposit formation and archaeological contexts. The probability of founding marks of these insects that modify carcasses of animals and humans in archaeological sites in Brazil and South America makes their study relevant. From a theoretical - methodological approach that includes Icnoarchaeology and Funeral Archeoentomology, we present the case study of a human skeleton with signs of bioerosion due to the action of subterranean termites in the archaeological site at Toca do Enoque (Piauí, northeastern Brazil) from the Middle Holocene. Guided by an actualist study protocol, we were able to record that the pattern of damage observed in the bones was consistent with the osteophageal behaviour of certain termite species endemic to the neotropical region (Family: Termitidae). The macroscopic analysis shows the importance of recognizing subterranean termites as natural taphonomic agents that act in postdepositional degradation of human bone remains from archaeological burial contexts.
关键词：tafonomía;icnoarqueología;arqueoentomología funeraria;isópteros;región Neotropical