Abstract
The site of Untermassfeld (Germany) documents flood catastrophes of the Werra River ca. 1 Myr years ago. Although all vertebrate individuals of an equivalent thanatocoenosis in principle underwent the same taphonomic history different mortality patterns have been observed for different animal species. It can be demonstrated that mortality patterns preserved by the fossil record are heavily affected by the physiological capability and ethology of a particular species as well as by the particular taphonomic situation prevailing at the location of final deposition. Against this background mortality patterns for the interpretation of faunal assemblages from archaeological sites are discussed in a broader context.
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