And taphonomy is basically a technique for understanding what lead to the death and burial of the animal or the plant itself.

埋葬学基本上就是一种用来了解动物或植物死亡和被埋原因的技术。

And by studying how those bones are situated in the sediments, we practice a science called taphonomy.

通过研究这些骨头在沉积物中的位置，我们实践了一门叫做埋葬学的科学。

Taphonomy is basically looking at what happened to a fossil from the time of death of an animal until it actually is buried and fossilized.

埋葬学基本上是研究古生物从死亡到被埋葬成为化石而被保存下来的学科。

And taphonomy basically tells us what happened between the time of death of an animal and the time that it was buried and eventually dug up by paleontologists.

埋葬学基本上告诉我们从动物死亡到它被埋葬并最终被古生物学家挖掘出来之间发生了什么。

Now, by using taphonomy, we can learn something about the environments those dinosaurs were living in, we can also learn something about, perhaps what caused the death of those dinosaurs.

现在，通过埋藏学，我们可以了解一些关于那些恐龙生活环境的信息，我们还可以了解一些信息，也许是什么导致了这些恐龙的死亡。