Download or read book Owls, Caves and Fossils written by Peter Andrews and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-08-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owls, Caves, and Fossils is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated account of small mammal taphonomy. The study of small mammal remains has previously been neglected in favor of such large mammals as elephants, bovids, and carnivores, and Andrews remedies this deficiency by analyzing the taphonomic processes significant in the preservation of small mammal fauna in caves.