New data on the introduction and dispersal process of small mammals in southwestern Europe during the Holocene: Castillejo del Bonete site (southeastern Spain)

García, Antonio Fernández; Laplana, César; Sevilla, Paloma; Blain, Hugues‐Alexandre; Zumajo, Norberto Palomares; Enrich, Luis Benítez de Lugo

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106008

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“…The genus Mus , which from the morphological point of view is similar to the Apodemus , was not identified. The two genera as well as the representative species are nonetheless easily distinguished based on the size of their skeletal elements and tooth morphology [ 21 , 89 ].…”

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“… Apodemus finds: Scatterplot comparing L/W ratio of upper M2 and percentage of specimens with reduced t9 (tubercle 9); L 990: Les Bagnoles, well 990; L 994: Les Bagnoles, well 994; 1: Northern France, 2: Le Claux, 3: St. Mathieu de Tréviers, 4: Camargue, 5: Burgos, 6: Kirchdorf, 7: France, 8: Kirchdorf, 9: Santeney, 10: Combe-Grenal, 11: Grimaldi, 12: Le Lazaret, 13: Cendres Cave, 14: Cueva del Agua, 15: Las Yedras, 16: El Higuerón, 17: Castillejo del Bonete. 1–16 after [ 84 , 89 ]. Photograph: Raül Soteras.…”

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Small Animals, Big Impact? Early Farmers and Pre- and Post-Harvest Pests from the Middle Neolithic Site of Les Bagnoles in the South-East of France (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur)

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Pests appear to have accompanied humans and their crops since the beginning of farming. Nevertheless, their study is only rarely integrated into research on farming in prehistory. An assemblage of invertebrates and small mammals was recovered from the waterlogged layers of three wells at the Middle Neolithic site (4250–3700 cal B.C.) of Les Bagnoles (SE France). The microfaunal remains were retrieved from sediment samples by wet sieving (wash-over technique). The most common among the rodents is the wood mouse. The assemblage also consists of insect remains of grain weevil, seed beetle, and corn ground beetle. The different finds not only offer data on the role of insect and rodent pests in the Neolithic but on the possible strategies adopted by the early farming communities in the western Mediterranean in response to pest infestation. The findings appear to confirm the hypothesis that the wood mouse was a commensal and storage pest in settlements long before the arrival of the invasive house mouse during the Bronze Age. The presence of the main storage pest, the grain weevil, suggests a long-term grain storage issue at Les Bagnoles. The combination of the results of the site’s archaeobotanical findings with those of other sites in the western Mediterranean suggests that the shift from naked to glume wheat around 4000 B.C. may also stem from a reaction to the problem of grain weevil infestation.

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