Question

Studying how a large animal carcass decomposes on an African savannah to determine how long it takes the carcass to disarticulate in different seasons and which bones are carried away by carnivores is an example of:________.a) experimental archaeology.b) taphonomy.c) geoarchaeology.d) ethnoarchaeology.

Answer 1

b. taphonomy

Step-by-step explanation:

Taphonomy -

It refers to the study that how the organism decay and fossils are generated , is referred to as taphonomy .

The scientist Ivan Efremov studies the remaining parts of the organisms present in the environment .

The studies are bifurcated into the organism in phase between the death and burial known as the biostratinomy .

And ,

After the process of burial known as diagenesis .

Hence , from the given scenario of the question ,

The correct option is b. taphonomy .