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Reconstructing dietary practices at Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) during the Bronze and Iron Age III / Persian to Hellenistic periods using plant micro-remains from dental calculus and stable isotope analysis of bone collagen 利用牙结石中的植物微遗迹和骨胶原的稳定同位素分析，重建 Tell Kamid el-Loz（黎巴嫩）青铜和铁器时代 III 期/波斯至希腊化时期的饮食习惯

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02000-w

Shira Gur-Arieh, Stefanie Eisenmann, Amanda G. Henry, Mary Lucas, Daniela Lenz, Ptolemaios Paxinos, Hélène Weber, Lionello F. Morandi, Jeffery R. Stone, Michael Schultz, Patrick Roberts, Philipp W. Stockhammer

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Osteological age-at-death estimation in an archaeological sample avoiding age-mimicry: a six-step approach 避免年龄模仿的考古样本中的骨龄估计：六步方法

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02034-0

Denise U. Navitainuck, Werner Vach, Kurt W. Alt, Sandra L. Pichler

{"title":"Osteological age-at-death estimation in an archaeological sample avoiding age-mimicry: a six-step approach","authors":"Denise U. Navitainuck, Werner Vach, Kurt W. Alt, Sandra L. Pichler","doi":"10.1007/s12520-024-02034-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12520-024-02034-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In human osteoarchaeology, individual age-at-death is traditionally assigned by scoring characteristic expressions of specific traits and applying formulas or algorithms. However, it is well known that the resulting age estimates in target samples suffer from bias due to the effect of age-mimicry, both at the individual and at the population level. A general statistical methodology to obtain unbiased estimates of the age-at-death distribution in skeletal samples has been available for more than two decades. Even so, the procedure is rarely used. This may be related to the fact that this methodology requires external input which has selection of distributional characteristics to be reported. In this paper, we translate the general methodology into a clearly stated six-step procedure to be followed. We illustrate the six steps using an archaeological sample of 675 adult individuals and 15 scoring methods from traditional age-estimation procedures. By clearly identifying the actions that are necessary for its application we intend to make the approach more accessible for osteoarchaeologists while at the same time highlighting some challenges that need to be addressed in the future. Our study demonstrates that the approach is feasible and illustrates the absence of age-mimicry. A combined analysis of five informative traits allowed to obtain estimates of several characteristics of the target sample age distribution. However, its routine use will benefit from improved input from relevant reference samples and improved statistical software.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8214,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences","volume":"16 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12520-024-02034-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141783095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Saint-Jean de Todon and Saint-Victor-la-Coste: exploring diet and social status in medieval southern France (C. 9TH – 13TH AD) using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses Saint-Jean de Todon 和 Saint-Victor-la-Coste：利用稳定碳和氮同位素分析探索中世纪法国南部（公元 9 世纪至 13 世纪）的饮食和社会地位

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02035-z

Jane Holmstrom, Tosha Dupras, Yann Ardagna, Laurent Vidal

{"title":"Saint-Jean de Todon and Saint-Victor-la-Coste: exploring diet and social status in medieval southern France (C. 9TH – 13TH AD) using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses","authors":"Jane Holmstrom, Tosha Dupras, Yann Ardagna, Laurent Vidal","doi":"10.1007/s12520-024-02035-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12520-024-02035-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Religion played an important role in many facets of life during the Middle Ages; however, most knowledge comes from historical documents of the elite and church leaders and biochemical signatures from skeletons buried in church cemeteries. This research explores diet among individuals buried in contemporaneous cemeteries that served individuals of distinct social statuses, the elite site of Saint-Jean de Todon (9th – 13th century AD), and the lower-status site of Saint-Victor-la-Coste (9th – 13th century AD). Individuals from Saint-Jean de Todon (<i>n</i> = 173) show a <i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>C value range from − 21.6 to − 17.4‰ and a <i>δ</i><sup>15</sup>N value range from 8.1 to 12.5‰. Individuals from Saint-Victor-la-Coste (<i>n</i> = 16) show a <i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>C‰ value range from − 20.9 to − 18.3‰ and a <i>δ</i><sup>15</sup>N value range from 8.6 to 10.8‰. There were statistically significant differences for <i>δ</i><sup>15</sup>N values between males and females at Saint-Jean de Todon (<i>p</i> = .025), suggesting males having more animal protein in their diet. A statistical significance in comparison of <i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>C and <i>δ</i><sup>15</sup>N between Saint-Jean de Todon and Saint-Victor-la-Coste was found (<i>p</i> < .001 and <i>p</i> = .002, respectively), indicating differential diet due to status differences of the burial populations. The variety in burial styles at Saint-Jean de Todon suggest individuals with differing levels of social power; however, isotopically, their diet is similar to the rest of the cemetery population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8214,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences","volume":"16 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141783099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Scientific investigation on the provenance of marble of free-standing sculptures from the archaeological museum of Kavala/northern Greece 对希腊北部卡瓦拉考古博物馆独立雕塑大理石来源的科学调查

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02028-y

Y. Maniatis, D. Damaskos, W. Prochaska, V. Anevlavi, D. Tambakopoulos

{"title":"Scientific investigation on the provenance of marble of free-standing sculptures from the archaeological museum of Kavala/northern Greece","authors":"Y. Maniatis, D. Damaskos, W. Prochaska, V. Anevlavi, D. Tambakopoulos","doi":"10.1007/s12520-024-02028-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12520-024-02028-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A series (thirty) of marble sculptures from the Archaeological Museum of Kavala, in North Greece, coming from Amphipolis and the greater area of East Macedonia, have been examined and analyzed in order to determine the provenance of their marble. A detailed in-situ examination with optical techniques was carried out, followed by sampling and laboratory analyses with the techniques of Stable Isotope Analysis (IRMS) for carbon and oxygen, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (EPR), selective petrography and optical microscopy. In addition, the results from a new quarry near Kavala (Chalkero) that was field-examined and analyzed isotopically are presented for the first time. The results from the sculptures show that the dominant origin of the marble for a lot of them is Thasos, both the dolomitic marble quarries at Vathy and Saliara and the calcitic ones from Aliki or Cape Fanari. A very interesting find was that the source of the marble for several sculptures of the Hellenistic and Roman periods was the Chalkero quarry. Paros marble is used for five sculptures, Penteli and Asia Minor are also represented among the thirty sculptures examined. The marble provenance results have largely contributed to the archaeological/art historical interpretation regarding workshops and sculptors and facilitated the dating of some sculptures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8214,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences","volume":"16 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141783149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reindeer prey mobility and seasonal hunting strategies in the late Gravettian mammoth steppe 格拉维蒂晚期猛犸草原上驯鹿猎物的流动性和季节性狩猎策略

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02019-z

A. J. E. Pryor, T. Nesnídalová, P. Šída, G. Lengyel, C. D. Standish, J. A. Milton, M. J. Cooper, B. Hambach, J. Crowley, J. Wilczyński

{"title":"Reindeer prey mobility and seasonal hunting strategies in the late Gravettian mammoth steppe","authors":"A. J. E. Pryor, T. Nesnídalová, P. Šída, G. Lengyel, C. D. Standish, J. A. Milton, M. J. Cooper, B. Hambach, J. Crowley, J. Wilczyński","doi":"10.1007/s12520-024-02019-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12520-024-02019-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Reindeer are part of the faunal suite that dominated central Europe during the last glacial cycle. Their importance to Late Gravettian hunters as prey and a source of raw materials (hide, bone, antler) is well attested, however the context of Late Gravettian reindeer predation is lesser understood. This paper presents an investigation of human and reindeer predator-prey interactions at the Late Gravettian kill-butchery site of Lubná VI, Czech Republic. We reconstruct seasonal mobility (<sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr, δ<sup>18</sup>O), diet (δ<sup>13</sup>C, δ<sup>15</sup>N) and season of death (dental cementum) of up to nine reindeer prey, to inform on the strategic choices made by Late Gravettian hunters. Results indicate that most hunted reindeer lived year-round in the foothills of the Bohemian-Moravian highlands near where Lubná is located, at altitudes between ~ 200–450 m above present sea level, while a smaller number showed evidence of seasonal migration between this area and the open plains of the Elbe river corridor (Bohemian Cretaceous basin). No evidence for long distance migration of reindeer was detected, indicating that productive local environments were supporting reindeer herds within a single annual territory. Meanwhile, areas higher than ~ 450 m above present sea level were avoided entirely by all analysed individuals, consistent with these areas being topographic barriers to movement due to climate severity. We conclude that hunters visited Lubná as part of a logistically-organised subsistence strategy, deliberately targeting reindeer in late autumn when fat supplies, hides and antler are in prime condition knowing that they would reliably encounter their prey at this location.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8214,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences","volume":"16 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12520-024-02019-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141744694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Modelling land and water based movement corridors in the Western Mediterranean: a least cost path analysis from chalcolithic and early bronze age ivory records 地中海西部水陆移动走廊建模：从旧石器时代和青铜时代早期的象牙记录中进行最小成本路径分析

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-20 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02029-x

Giacomo Bilotti, Michael Kempf, Jose Miguel Morillo Leon

{"title":"Modelling land and water based movement corridors in the Western Mediterranean: a least cost path analysis from chalcolithic and early bronze age ivory records","authors":"Giacomo Bilotti, Michael Kempf, Jose Miguel Morillo Leon","doi":"10.1007/s12520-024-02029-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12520-024-02029-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The transportation of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age ivory raw materials and artefacts across the Mediterranean has been in the focus of archaeological research for over a century now. However, tracing the flow of ivory has mostly been restricted to traditional theoretical models of raw materials distribution deriving from socio-culturally centred considerations. Environmental conditions, potential transportation networks and dissemination routes have not yet been considered decisive for the spread of ivory raw material from the African shores and the eastern Mediterranean towards the Iberian Peninsula. Implementing computational environmental and archaeological modelling, we present a fully reproducible quantitative approach to estimate potential communication and transportation networks based on environmental covariates. We deploy a Network Analysis model and a predictive model based on Least Cost Path density to propose a potential land- and sea-based movement corridor for the western Mediterranean Basin that could have enabled the cultural spread of resources during the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. Using the presented model and the open-source data underlying the analyses, distribution patterns of multiple material resources from different chronological subsets or regions can be developed, which will contribute to understanding prehistoric human patterns across the Mediterranean.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8214,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences","volume":"16 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12520-024-02029-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141744695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Genetic affinity of cave burial and Hmong-Mien populations in Guangxi inferred from ancient genomes 从古基因组推断广西洞穴埋葬和苗族-苗族人群的遗传亲缘关系

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02033-1

Jianxin Guo, Haifeng He, Guangmao Xie, Le Tao, Xi Mai, Kongyang Zhu, Qiusheng Qin, Xiaomin Yang, Ying Xie, Rui Wang, Hao Ma, Jing Zhao, Dawei Li, Shiyang Gong, Chuan-Chao Wang

{"title":"Genetic affinity of cave burial and Hmong-Mien populations in Guangxi inferred from ancient genomes","authors":"Jianxin Guo, Haifeng He, Guangmao Xie, Le Tao, Xi Mai, Kongyang Zhu, Qiusheng Qin, Xiaomin Yang, Ying Xie, Rui Wang, Hao Ma, Jing Zhao, Dawei Li, Shiyang Gong, Chuan-Chao Wang","doi":"10.1007/s12520-024-02033-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12520-024-02033-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cave burial has been prevalent in southern China for thousands of years since the Shang and Zhou Dynasties (3600 − 2200 BP). The population history and the genetic contribution of cave burial groups to the formation of present-day southern minorities are largely unknown due to the lack of ancient genomic data. Here, we present the genomic data from four ancient individuals from cave burial sites Baitaishan and Huatudong from the Late Yuan to Ming Dynasties (650 − 300 BP) in Guangxi. We observed a close genetic affinity between the four individuals and published contemporaneous cave burial samples. However, our studied individuals received gene flows from northern East Asians compared to the cave burial groups around 1600 − 1400 years ago. We identified a strong genetic link between these ancient cave burial groups and present-day Hmong-Mien-speaking populations, particularly the geographically adjacent Baiku Yao population, indicating population stability in the mountainous region of southern China over the past few centuries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8214,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences","volume":"16 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141744868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ancient genomes provide insights into the genetic history in the historical era of southwest China 通过古代基因组了解中国西南历史时期的遗传史

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02036-y

Fan Zhang, Xinglong Zhang, Bin Bai, Changguo Hu, Chen Duan, Haibing Yuan, Ruojing Zhang, Pengcheng Ma, Bisu Zhou, Chao Ning

{"title":"Ancient genomes provide insights into the genetic history in the historical era of southwest China","authors":"Fan Zhang, Xinglong Zhang, Bin Bai, Changguo Hu, Chen Duan, Haibing Yuan, Ruojing Zhang, Pengcheng Ma, Bisu Zhou, Chao Ning","doi":"10.1007/s12520-024-02036-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12520-024-02036-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Southwest China was characterized by its ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity, but the genetic profile and dynamic history of past populations in this region are not well attested. Here, we present genome-wide ancient DNA data from seven Ming Dynasty (1368 CE–1644 CE) individuals from the heart of southwest China, Guizhou province. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first ancient genomic data from the region. We found that compared to other published historical genomes from southwest China, the Ming Dynasty Dasongshan individuals in Guizhou share more affinity with northern Chinese, and were genetically admixed by ancient populations from southern China and northern China agriculturalists from the Yellow River region. Analysis of short runs of homozygosity fragments suggests that the Dasongshan people constituted a small-sized population with probable exogamous customs. Furthermore, present-day Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, and Hmong-Mien groups in southwest China carry additional ancestry associated with ancient Yellow River agriculturists, indicating a genetic influx from northern China within recent centuries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8214,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences","volume":"16 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141721246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lithic technologies at Guanyindong cave, Southwest China: diversity and innovation during the Chinese Middle Palaeolithic 中国西南观音洞的石器技术：中国中旧石器时代的多样性和创新性

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02022-4

Yue Hu, Ben Marwick, Hongliang Lu, Yamei Hou, Weiwen Huang, Bo Li

{"title":"Lithic technologies at Guanyindong cave, Southwest China: diversity and innovation during the Chinese Middle Palaeolithic","authors":"Yue Hu, Ben Marwick, Hongliang Lu, Yamei Hou, Weiwen Huang, Bo Li","doi":"10.1007/s12520-024-02022-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12520-024-02022-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a long-standing view of Chinese Palaeolithic that lithic industries with pebble-tools and simple core-and-flakes are prevalent, without innovations and technological changes until the advent of the Upper Palaeolithic. However, with new discoveries and reassessments of previous archaeological materials, many doubts have been raised on the tenableness of this view. Preceding reports of the Levallois concept at Guanyindong revealed the presence of an early prepared core technology in East Asia. To further contribute to this issue, here we present a comprehensive study of the whole Guanyindong assemblage. Our results found that Levallois stone-tool technology is not the only skill acquired by Guanyindong knappers. Instead, systematic Middle Palaeolithic techno-complexes, including multiple flaking strategies, diverse tool types, and formal tool manufacture, suggest that Guanyindong industry is indeed a Middle Palaeolithic technological complex that is comparable with West Eurasia and Africa, challenging the previous understanding of Palaeolithic industries pre-40 ka in China as static and conventional.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8214,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences","volume":"16 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141721245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Animal exploitation by the last hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean Iberia. New data from the Mesolithic groups from Cocina cave (Valencia, Eastern Iberia) 地中海伊比利亚地区最后一批狩猎采集者对动物的开发。来自 Cocina 洞穴（巴伦西亚，东伊比利亚）中石器时代群体的新数据

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02023-3

Cristina Real, Alfred Sanchis, Shayla Monroe, Oreto García-Puchol, Manuel Pérez Ripoll, Sarah B. McClure

{"title":"Animal exploitation by the last hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean Iberia. New data from the Mesolithic groups from Cocina cave (Valencia, Eastern Iberia)","authors":"Cristina Real, Alfred Sanchis, Shayla Monroe, Oreto García-Puchol, Manuel Pérez Ripoll, Sarah B. McClure","doi":"10.1007/s12520-024-02023-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12520-024-02023-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mesolithic groups in Mediterranean Iberia lived during a period of bioclimatic and cultural changes. Thus, their economic behaviour and the availability of plant and animal resources show some interesting variation compared to previous periods that indicate changes in mobility patterns and social connectivity networks. This paper presents information on patterns of animal exploitation of the last hunter-gatherers in this region through zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses of faunal remains from one of the key sites of the Iberian Peninsular Mesolithic, Cocina cave. This site is located in a mountainous woodland region with a rich Late Mesolithic archaeological record. Results indicate that Iberian ibex, red deer, and rabbits were the most hunted species, but that a diversity of other taxa were also present. The comparison to other Mediterranean sites suggests that Late Mesolithic foragers had common animal exploitation patterns with an increased taxonomic diversification and a clear connection to coastal areas. We suggest these foragers practiced a logistic pattern of food procurement, combining long-term with short-term camps including hunting spots, and in some cases evidence for broad scale social interactions. We hypothesize that Cocina cave may have served as a nexus of social and subsistence activities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8214,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences","volume":"16 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12520-024-02023-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141648656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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