Importance and role of neotaphonomic collections: the example of microvertebrate and experimental collection management
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18 juin 2023
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- doi: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2223230
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Christiane C. Denys et al., « Importance and role of neotaphonomic collections: the example of microvertebrate and experimental collection management », HAL-SHS : archéologie, ID : 10.1080/08912963.2023.2223230
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The development of taphonomy has improved our knowledge of site formation and palaeoenvironmentalreconstructions. It has also stimulated many neotaphonomic analyses that bring clues to some of thealterations and modifications processes of fossilisation and accumulations. This article aims to show thatsuch neotaphonomic analyses and experiments, by generating a lot of valuable material and associate data,need to be integrated into official collections for future preservation. We will focus here upon two examplesof neotaphonomic collections: 1 owl pellet microvertebrate collections and 2 collections resulting fromexperimental work (simulation and monitoring). We detail some problems for incorporating such new typeof materials in Museums and some requirements for their curation. In the era of open science, there is a needto improve the management and curation of such unconventional collections to incorporate them intofuture classical comparative research, training and education as well as exhibitions.