Expansion of the referential framework for the rabbit fossil accumulations generated by Iberian lynx

Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Antonio; Saladié, Palmira; Marín, Juan; Canals, Antoni

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.11.010

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“…In the last decades, numerous taphonomic studies examining the role of small carnivores as possible agents of bone accumulation in archaeological deposits have been published (Schmitt and Juell 1994;Sanchis 2000;Mondini 2002;Cochard 2004;Gómez and Kaufmann 2007;Lloveras et al 2008a;Mallye et al 2008; Sanchis Serra and Pascual Benito 2011;Alvarez et al 2012;Lloveras et al 2012a;Stiner et al 2012;Rodríguez-Hidalgo et al 2013;Krajcarz and Krajcarz 2014;Rodríguez-Hidalgo et al 2015;Amstrong 2016). They are especially relevant to the discussion about subsistence strategies and ways of life of hunter-gatherer communities.…”

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When wildcats feed on rabbits: an experimental study to understand the taphonomic signature of European wildcats (Felis silvestris silvestris)

Lloveras

Thomas

Cosso

et al. 2016

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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“…In fact, given that these completeness values can vary slightly as consequence of intraspecific variabiles (age of the prey, age of the predator, rabbit abundance, etc.) (Lloveras et al 2012a;Rodríguez-Hidalgo et al 2013, 2015, values obtained for different carnivores could overlap, making any distinction difficult.…”

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When wildcats feed on rabbits: an experimental study to understand the taphonomic signature of European wildcats (Felis silvestris silvestris)

Lloveras

Thomas

Cosso

et al. 2016

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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“…De acuerdo con los restos de depredadores presentes en el sitio (Gerber, 1973, Texier, 1974, los carnívoros que probablemente intervinieron sobre las carcasas de las aves pudieron ser pequeños cánidos como el zorro o félidos como el gato salvaje y el lince. En terminos generales, los daños derivados de la masticación observados sobre los huesos avianos de Pié Lombard coinciden con los daños generados por el lince sobre aves y pequeñas presas , 2015 No obstante, existen algunas marcas de dientes sobre huesos con marcas de corte con características similares a otros generados en trabajos experimentales de consumo humano de aves (p. e., Romero et al, 2016a). Este hecho nos permite plantear que algunas marcas de dientes pertenecen muy probablemente a humanos.…”

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Aves de caza. Estudio tafonómico y zooarqueológico de los restos avianos de los niveles musterienses de Pié Lombard (Alpes-Maritimes, Francia)

Romero¹,

Fernández-Lomana²,

Brugal³

2018

Munibe, Antropol.-Arkeol.

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El yacimiento musteriense de Pié Lombard (Alpes-Maritimes, Francia) está localizado en un entorno montañoso de medio rango y posee un conjunto óseo rico y diversificado en el cual los restos de aves son abundantes. Su estudio tafonómico y zooarqueológico brinda cuestiones importantes sobre la explotación de aves por parte de rapaces, carnívoros y neandertales, y añade otro yacimiento en el cual se lleva a cabo la explotación de pequeñas presas en Europa Occidental. LABURPENAPié Lombard-eko (Itsas Alpeak, Frantzia) aztarnategi mousteriarra maila ertaineko ingurune menditsuan dago, eta hezur-multzo aberatsa eta dibertsifikatua du. Oso ugariak dira hegaztien hondakinak. Azterketa tafonomikoak eta zooarkeologikoak harrapariek, karniboroek eta neandertalek hegaztiekin lotuta egindako ustiapenari buruzko gai esanguratsuak azaleratu ditu. Gainera, mendebaldeko Europan harrapakin txikien ustiapena egin deneko beste aztarnategi bat azaldu da. ABSTRACTTraditionally small fast game exploitation is characteristic of the end of Upper Palaeolithic or modern humans. Nevertheless, several authors demonstrated recently small fast game exploitation by fossil hominins able to capture, process and consume small animals for different purposes, despite numerous methodological and technical problems. In this work, we provide results of a taphonomical and zooarchaeological study on all bird bones from the Middle Palaeolithic levels of Pié Lombard using various analytical tools.The Mousterian site of Pié Lombard is a narrow rock shelter located in a middle-range mountainous environment near Tourrettes-sur-Loup (Alpes-Maritimes, France). The Middle Palaeolithic bird bone assemblage retained 18 taxa, all adults. The most represented taxa are choughs and pigeons that represent rocky species, characteristic of mild-temperate climate. The third most common specie is the partridge, although to a lesser extent. Long bones are predominant and anatomical representations are different between the frequent species. Various taphonomical alterations are visible on bird remains, including human modifications (cut marks -incisions and scraping marks-and burnt bones), other non-human predator activities (usually tooth marks and digestion processes) and some diagenetic alterations (especially concretion, corrosion and root marks). The majority of the bones are characterized by curved outline, mixed angles and jagged textures.The bird remains exhibit significant breakages due to various consumption processes (humans, raptors and small carnivores) completed by natural burial process. The birds of prey (probably nocturnal raptors) transported their prey (usually choughs) to the rock shelter where they were consumed and regurgitated. Secondly, small and medium-sized carnivores (small felids like lynx or wild cat had a relevant role) predate occasionally on birds. Neanderthals occupations were occasional, where they exploited herbivores but are also in to some extent at the source of bird accumulation. The humans captured almost exclusively pigeons and partr...

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“…Modifications produced by carnivores and avian raptors were very infrequent: only 36 (0.61%). Although European rabbits are the occasional prey of many carnivores; only in two species – lynx and fox – do rabbits comprise a significant proportion of the modern diet (Lloveras et al ., , ; Rodríguez‐Hidalgo et al ., , ). Fossil bones attributed to Lynx sp.…”

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“…Rodriguez‐Hidalgo et al . () studied undigested rabbit remains fed by a female lynx to her cubs in denning season, finding the aforementioned taphonomic signals as well as small scores and pits produced by the teeth of infant lynxes. Arriaza et al .…”

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Rabbits as Food at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic at Molí del Salt (Catalonia, Spain)

Martínez‐Polanco

Blasco

Rosell

et al. 2016

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Many factors have been causally linked to the diversification of hunting during the European Palaeolithic: declining supplies of high‐ranked prey, considerable human demographic growth, reduced residential mobility, larger populations of ubiquitous small mammals and significant technological developments. However, small prey exploitation was not uniform: the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is the most frequent species in the Upper Palaeolithic archaeological record of the Iberian Peninsula – south and Mediterranean area – and Southern France. This is demonstrated at Molí del Salt, an Upper Palaeolithic site located at Vimbodí (Catalonia, Spain), whose mammal fauna stands out for the predominance of rabbits [91% of minimum number of individuals (n = 136)]. We analysed the faunal remains from one level [Asup (c. 12 700–13 000 cal BP)] in order to identify the agent responsible for the faunal accumulation, and to reconstruct aspects of procurement and consumption that shed light on Palaeolithic subsistence strategies in the Northeast Iberian Peninsula. Our results indicate that human agency rather than carnivore activity was responsible for the bone accumulation at Molí del Salt. We identified all the stages in the consumption sequence from skinning to ingestion. We argue that the rabbits were mostly harvested during summer or winter or both seasons. Clearly, the European rabbit was a target species for the human groups which lived at Molí del Salt providing meat, and skin. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Expansion of the referential framework for the rabbit fossil accumulations generated by Iberian lynx

Cited by 32 publications

References 55 publications

When wildcats feed on rabbits: an experimental study to understand the taphonomic signature of European wildcats (Felis silvestris silvestris)

When wildcats feed on rabbits: an experimental study to understand the taphonomic signature of European wildcats (Felis silvestris silvestris)

Aves de caza. Estudio tafonómico y zooarqueológico de los restos avianos de los niveles musterienses de Pié Lombard (Alpes-Maritimes, Francia)

Rabbits as Food at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic at Molí del Salt (Catalonia, Spain)

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