The hooting past. Re-evaluating the role of owls in shaping human-place relations throughout the Pleistocene

Hussain, Shumon T.

doi:10.5252/anthropozoologica2021v56a3

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“…Furthermore, there are hypotheses for synanthropic birds in the Late Pleistocene. These refer either to commensal synanthropism, as for ravens from archaeological sites in Moravia or to environmental synanthropism, as for owls at cave sites (Kost and Hussain 2019;Hussain 2021). There is also evidence for commensal synanthropic behavior of foxes in the Near East prior to the Neolithic period.…”

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The paleo-synanthropic niche: a first attempt to define animal’s adaptation to a human-made micro-environment in the Late Pleistocene

Baumann

2023

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Synanthropic behavior, i.e., the behavior of wild animals that benefit from a shared ecology with humans, has existed long before the sedentarization of Homo sapiens during the Neolithic, around 10,000 years ago. This study describes and discusses the concept of an older animal-human relationship: paleo-synanthropic behavior and the associated paleo-synanthropic niche. Key features of this new niche are anthropogenic food waste from mobile hunter-gatherers as a stable food base for small opportunistic scavengers and a human-near environment safe from large predators. By linking the niche to human behavior rather than to a specific location or structure, this niche was accessible for a long time, even in the Late Pleistocene. Like modern synanthropic animals, members of the paleo-synanthropic niche experienced an increase in population density and a decrease in home range. This, in turn, made it easier for humans to capture these animals and use them as resources for meat, fur, or feathers, as seen in the zooarchaeological record of many European Late Pleistocene sites. As a disadvantage, diseases such as zoonoses may have spread more easily.

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Section: The Earliest Synanthropic Behavior In the European Late Plei...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The paleo-synanthropic niche: a first attempt to define animal’s adaptation to a human-made micro-environment in the Late Pleistocene

Baumann

2023

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Using bioacoustic tools to clarify species delimitation within the Blakiston's Fish Owl (Bubo blakistoni) complex

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Birds of prey in the historical past of Eastern Europe: Evidence from bones

Gorobets,

Volynskyi,

Kovalchuk

2024

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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The hooting past. Re-evaluating the role of owls in shaping human-place relations throughout the Pleistocene

Abstract: Anthropozoologica est une revue en flux continu publiée par les Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, avec le soutien du CNRS.

Cited by 4 publications

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The paleo-synanthropic niche: a first attempt to define animal’s adaptation to a human-made micro-environment in the Late Pleistocene

The paleo-synanthropic niche: a first attempt to define animal’s adaptation to a human-made micro-environment in the Late Pleistocene

Using bioacoustic tools to clarify species delimitation within the Blakiston's Fish Owl (Bubo blakistoni) complex

Birds of prey in the historical past of Eastern Europe: Evidence from bones

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