Corroded, Thinned and Polished Bones Created by Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos): Taphonomic Implications for Archaeological Interpretations

Leporids as a potential resource for predators (hominins, mammalian carnivores, raptors): An example of mixed contribution from level III of Teixoneres Cave (MIS 3, Barcelona, Spain)

“…Tyto alba: Hockett, 1991. Aquila: Cruz-Uribe and Klein, 1998Hockett, 1993Hockett, , 1995Hockett, , 1996Lloveras et al, 2008a;Martínez Valle, 1996;Schmitt, 1995. Vulpes vulpes: Cochard, 2004a, 2004cHockett, 1999;Hockett and Haws, 2002;Krajcarz and Krajcarz, 2012;Lloveras et al, 2012b;Mondini, 2000;Sanchis, 1999Sanchis, , 2000Sanchis, , 2010Pascual, 2011.…”

“…This has led to their importance in the food chain of a wide variety of predators -several diurnal and nocturnal raptors as well as mammal carnivore species. This is why some studies have focused on distinguishing the agent generating leporid accumulations, such as nocturnal raptors (e.g., Cochard, 2004aCochard, , 2004bGuillem and Martínez Valle, 1991;Lloveras et al, 2009aLloveras et al, , 2012aMartínez Valle, 1996;Sanchis, 1999Sanchis, , 2000Sanchis, , 2001Yravedra, 2004Yravedra, , 2006, diurnal raptors (Hockett, 1993(Hockett, , 1995(Hockett, , 1996Lloveras et al, 2008a), wolves and dogs (Payne and Munson, 1985;Schmitt and Juell, 1994), the Iberian lynx (Lloveras et al, 2008b;Rodríguez-Hidalgo et al, 2013), foxes (e.g. Cochard, 2004aCochard, , 2004cHockett, 1999;Hockett and Haws, 2002;Krajcarz and Krajcarz, 2012;Lloveras et al, 2012b;Mondini, 2000;Sanchis, 1999Sanchis, , 2000Sanchis, , 2010Sanchis and Pascual, 2011) and hominins (e.g., Fernández Peris, 2012a, 2012b;Blasco et al, 2013;Cochard et al, 2012;Hawkes et al, 2001;Landt, 2004Landt, , 2007Lloveras et al, 2009b;Lupo and Schmitt, 2002;…”

The reconstruction of past environments through small mammals: from the Mousterian to the Bronze Age in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)

“…One taphonomic issue of interest is the agent of bone deposition. Bone digestion and breakage patterns were examined to identify depositional agents based on the work of Andrews (1990), and Hockett (1996). Extensive bone taphonomic data is not presented here because it will be published in a separated paper (in preparation).…”

Lagomorph predation represented in a middle Palaeolithic level of the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Spain), as inferred via a new use of classical taphonomic criteria

“…Carnivores and raptors were great hunters of rabbits throughout the Pleistocene, and many sites are home to accumulations of rabbit skeletal remains, some of which show traces of consumption (Pillard, 1972;Desclaux, 1992;Stiner, 1994;Blasco-Sancho, 1995;Martínez Valle, 1996;Fern andezJalvo and Andrews, 2000;Guennouni, 2001;Cochard, 2004Cochard, , 2007Sanchís Serra and Fern andez-Peris, 2008;Lloveras et al, 2010Lloveras et al, , 2011. In recent years, much effort has been invested in characterising the accumulations left by these predators, and in finding diagnostic features that might reveal the species responsible (Andrews, 1990;Schmitt and Juell, 1994;Hockett, 1996;Cruz-Uribe and Klein, 1998;Sanchís-Serra, 2000;Cochard, 2004;Yravedra, 2004;Lloveras et al, 2008aLloveras et al, , 2008bLloveras et al, , 2009aSanchís-Serra and Pascual-Benito, 2011;Lloveras et al, 2012a;Alvarez et al, 2012;Rodríguez-Hidalgo et al, 2013b). The majority of these diagnostic features have been obtained via actualistic studies.…”