FAUNAL remains. Thus, the correct order is: Palaeontology is the study of the remains of dead organisms over an enormous span of TIME. Within this discipline, molecular biology and DNA studies have been used to understand hominid evolution. Hominid evolution answers the QUESTIONS about what ancient people LOOKED LIKE, and to plot patterns of migration. Bones provide a piece of great information. The distribution of faunal remains (animal bones) at a site can indicate which areas were used for butchering, cooking, eating, bone tool-making and refuse dumping. Faunal analysis gives information about the animals people hunted and domesticated, the age of animals at death, and the diseases that afflicted them.