Pleistocene occupation of Yellabidde Cave in the northern Swan Coastal Plain, southwestern Australia

Monks, Carly; Dortch, Joe; Jacobsen, Geraldine; Baynes, Alexander

doi:10.1080/03122417.2016.1244216

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“…Because of the limitations imposed on the Caladenia Cave data by differential recovery of mammal remains, further research is needed to elucidate the relationships between the original biotic communities of the Swan Coastal Plain. A re-investigation of the vertebrate assemblage in Wedge's Cave (Lundelius 1960), the ongoing investigation of Yellabiddie Cave (Monks et al 2016) or another excavation of the East Moore caves, may provide the material required for a palaeoecological comparison with both Hastings and Caladenia Cave. This study shows that excavated sediment must be processed using a 1 mm or 0.5 mm sieve mesh aperture for the entire excavation.…”

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Fossil mammals of Caladenia Cave, northern Swan Coastal Plain, south-western Australia

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Quaternary palaeoecological research in Western Australia has been focussed primarily around Perth and the extreme southwest , with very little work conducted to the north between 29° and 32°S. Using fossil remains excavated in the 1970s from Caladenia Cave in the East Moore cave area of the northern Swan Coastal Plain, we sought evidence of compositional change in the regional mammal fauna from the mid-Holocene to the present. Loss of Phascogale calura, Perameles bougainville and Lagorchestes hirsutus, species characteristic of semi-arid and arid regions, suggests an increase in rainfall from around 4700 cal. BP. A change to a smaller sieve mesh aperture in the deepest levels of the excavation caused differential recovery which constrained the extent to which ecological inferences could be made. This bias notwithstanding, the Caladenia Cave assemblage suggests major community changes did not characterise the late Holocene, indicating resilience to the impacts of environmental changes prior to European settlement.

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“…Archaeologists, palaeontologists and other researchers have uncovered an assortment of faunal remains in Australia, dating from the late Pleistocene to the historical period [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. However, the continent's often harsh environmental conditions [20][21][22], together with other factors like scavenging by marsupial carnivores [23][24][25], frequently result in a large number of highly fragmented, morphologically unidentifiable bone fragments in archaeological and palaeontological assemblages.…”

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Species identification of Australian marsupials using collagen fingerprinting

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The study of faunal remains from archaeological sites is often complicated by the presence of large numbers of highly fragmented, morphologically unidentifiable bones. In Australia, this is the combined result of harsh preservation conditions and frequent scavenging by marsupial carnivores. The collagen fingerprinting method known as zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS) offers a means to address these challenges and improve identification rates of fragmented bones. Here, we present novel ZooMS peptide markers for 24 extant marsupial and monotreme species that allow for genus-level distinctions between these species. We demonstrate the utility of these new peptide markers by using them to taxonomically identify bone fragments from a nineteenth-century colonial-era pearlshell fishery at Bandicoot Bay, Barrow Island. The suite of peptide biomarkers presented in this study, which focus on a range of ecologically and culturally important species, have the potential to significantly amplify the zooarchaeological and paleontological record of Australia.

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“…A re-investigation of the vertebrate assemblage in Wedge's Cave (Lundelius 1960), the ongoing investigation of Yellabiddie Cave (Monks et al 2016) or another excavation of the East Moore caves, may provide the material required for a palaeoecological comparison with both Hastings and Caladenia Cave. This study shows that excavated sediment must be processed using a 1 mm or 0.5 mm sieve mesh aperture for the entire excavation.…”

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Fossil mammals of Caladenia Cave, northern Swan Coastal Plain, south-western Australia

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-Quaternary palaeoecological research in Western Australia has been focussed primarily around Perth and the extreme south-west, with very little work conducted to the north between 29° and 32°S. Using fossil remains excavated in the 1970s from Caladenia Cave in the East Moore cave area of the northern Swan Coastal Plain, we sought evidence of compositional change in the regional mammal fauna from the mid-Holocene to the present. Loss of Phascogale calura, Perameles bougainville and Lagorchestes hirsutus, species characteristic of semi-arid and arid regions, suggests an increase in rainfall from around 4700 cal. BP. A change to a smaller sieve mesh aperture in the deepest levels of the excavation caused differential recovery which constrained the extent to which ecological inferences could be made. This bias notwithstanding, the Caladenia Cave assemblage suggests major community changes did not characterise the late Holocene, indicating resilience to the impacts of environmental changes prior to European settlement.

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Pleistocene occupation of Yellabidde Cave in the northern Swan Coastal Plain, southwestern Australia

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Fossil mammals of Caladenia Cave, northern Swan Coastal Plain, south-western Australia

Fossil mammals of Caladenia Cave, northern Swan Coastal Plain, south-western Australia

Species identification of Australian marsupials using collagen fingerprinting

Fossil mammals of Caladenia Cave, northern Swan Coastal Plain, south-western Australia

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