"After setting forth the interpretive framework that governs their use of numbers in faunal analysis, Richard G. Klein and Kathryn Cruz-Uribe survey various measures of taxonomic abundance, review methods for estimating the sex and age composition of a fossil species sample, and then give examples to show how these measures and sex/age profiles can provide useful information about the past. In the second part of their book, the authors present the...

Describes animal mummies, some of the most famous animal mummies and where they have been found, how animals are mummified, how scientists study them, and what they can teach us about the past.