The long–term survival of bone: the role of bioerosion

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What Happened Here? Bone Histology as a Tool in Decoding the Postmortem Histories of Archaeological Bone from Castricum, The Netherlands (2012, background): “Trueman and Martill (2002) have also identified focal destructions, which they called Wedl type 2.”
The Chemical and Microbial Degradation of Bones and Teeth (2007, background): “…in histological sections – Wedl or centrifugal tunnelling, linear longitudinal tunnelling, budded tunnelling and lamellate tunnelling (Hackett, 1981; Trueman and Martill, 2002; Jans et al., 2004) – only two broad classes of bacteria seem to be involved: aerobic bacteria in normal archaeological…”
The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov Volume III: Mammalian Taphonomy. The Assemblages of Layers V-5 and V-6 (2011, unknown): “Experimental taphonomy has shown that deposition environment, water presence, soil pH level, animal size and animal condition prior to burial (Denys 2002) are crucial factors in bone survival, as well as the lack of earlier collagen microbial degradation (Trueman and Martill 2002).”
Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone. (2004, background): “Indeed, the relative absence of bacterial mfd in paleontological bone shows that biological alteration needs to be prevented if bone is to survive into the fossil record [39].”