6th International Bone Diagenesis Meeting,
18.9. – 21.9.2009, University of Bonn, Germany
Organizing committee:
Thomas Tütken, University of Bonn & Hervé Bocherens, University of Tübingen
International Scientific Advisory Committee:
Julia Lee-Thorp, Bruce MacFadden, Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner, Noreen Tuross, Torsten Vennemann
The Bone Diagenesis (BD) meeting looks back on a successful history of more than 2 decades. The meeting was originally initiated by Robert Hedges from the Department of Archaeology, University Oxford. The first BD meeting took place in 1988 and about every 4 years thereafter. The scientific results have been published in several special issues of high-ranking international journals from a range of disciplines.
The purpose of the BD meeting is to bring together scientists from different disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, palaeontology, palaeobiology, geochemistry, mineralogy, genetics, forensics, taphonomy and others working on ancient bones and teeth as archives to reconstruct the behaviour and life history of vertebrates as well as their environment and their taphonomy.
Fossil bones and teeth yield important information about the phylogeny and evolution of vertebrates as well as the life history of the individual animal or human being. With regard to their chemical composition fossils record information about the growth, diet, thermophysiology and mobility of the individual as well as climate and habitat. Ancient DNA may enable us to infer phylogenetic relations and the geographic origin of species.
Such in vivo signals may be altered during the process of fossilisation of bones while their histology is often preserved and increasingly used in vertebrate palaeontology. The chemical and mineralogical changes during diagenesis are a valuable source of information in their own right. They enable us to characterize the post mortem history, taphonomy and diagenetic milieu as well as to trace the fossil provenance.
For the 6th BD meeting we are looking for scientific contributions dealing with the:
(1) Understanding of the post-mortem diagenetic processes and their role in the preservation or destruction of primary information;
(2) Development of new proxies and analytical methods to quantify diagenetic alteration and processes;
(3) Use of chemical or histological proxies in fossil bones and teeth to infer lifetime or taphonomic processes.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact either:
Dr. Thomas Tütken
Steinmann Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie - Arbeitsbereich Mineralogie-Petrologie - Universität Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, 53115 Bonn
e-mail: tuetken@uni-bonn.de
Tel. (Büro) +49 (0)228-73 65 45
Más información: University of Bonn
18.9. – 21.9.2009, University of Bonn, Germany
Organizing committee:Thomas Tütken, University of Bonn & Hervé Bocherens, University of Tübingen
International Scientific Advisory Committee:
Julia Lee-Thorp, Bruce MacFadden, Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner, Noreen Tuross, Torsten Vennemann
The Bone Diagenesis (BD) meeting looks back on a successful history of more than 2 decades. The meeting was originally initiated by Robert Hedges from the Department of Archaeology, University Oxford. The first BD meeting took place in 1988 and about every 4 years thereafter. The scientific results have been published in several special issues of high-ranking international journals from a range of disciplines.
The purpose of the BD meeting is to bring together scientists from different disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, palaeontology, palaeobiology, geochemistry, mineralogy, genetics, forensics, taphonomy and others working on ancient bones and teeth as archives to reconstruct the behaviour and life history of vertebrates as well as their environment and their taphonomy.
Fossil bones and teeth yield important information about the phylogeny and evolution of vertebrates as well as the life history of the individual animal or human being. With regard to their chemical composition fossils record information about the growth, diet, thermophysiology and mobility of the individual as well as climate and habitat. Ancient DNA may enable us to infer phylogenetic relations and the geographic origin of species.
Such in vivo signals may be altered during the process of fossilisation of bones while their histology is often preserved and increasingly used in vertebrate palaeontology. The chemical and mineralogical changes during diagenesis are a valuable source of information in their own right. They enable us to characterize the post mortem history, taphonomy and diagenetic milieu as well as to trace the fossil provenance.
For the 6th BD meeting we are looking for scientific contributions dealing with the:
(1) Understanding of the post-mortem diagenetic processes and their role in the preservation or destruction of primary information;
(2) Development of new proxies and analytical methods to quantify diagenetic alteration and processes;
(3) Use of chemical or histological proxies in fossil bones and teeth to infer lifetime or taphonomic processes.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact either:
Dr. Thomas Tütken
Steinmann Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie - Arbeitsbereich Mineralogie-Petrologie - Universität Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, 53115 Bonn
e-mail: tuetken@uni-bonn.de
Tel. (Büro) +49 (0)228-73 65 45
Más información: University of Bonn
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