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DOI | 10.1002/jqs.1501 |
Mammal remains at Rantis Cave, Israel, and Middle-Late Pleistocene human subsistence and ecology in the Southern Levant | |
Marder, Ofer2; Yeshurun, Reuven1; Lupu, Ronit2; Bar-Oz, Guy1; Belmaker, Miriam3; Porat, Naomi4; Ron, Hagai5; Frumkin, Amos6 | |
通讯作者 | Yeshurun, Reuven |
来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE
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ISSN | 0267-8179 |
EISSN | 1099-1417 |
出版年 | 2011 |
卷号 | 26期号:8页码:769-780 |
英文摘要 | Rantis Cave is a recently discovered filled cave in central Israel, displaying a rich faunal accumulation of micromammals, ungulates and carnivores. U-Th dating assigns the beginning of accumulation to ca. 140 ka. The accumulation is culturally assigned to the late half of the Middle Paleolithic (MP) period. Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence measurements attest to a complex sedimentological history. We present the cross-disciplinary results of taphonomic and geomorphological analyses, which point to the cave serving as a natural pitfall trap for the large fauna, with little human or carnivore activity. The fauna is dominated by Dama among the ungulates and by Microtus among the micromammals. These data in conjunction with ungulate tooth mesowear analysis suggest a xeric Mediterranean environment on the eastern margin of the southern Levantine foothills. The relative taxonomic abundance of ungulate taxa shows some differences from anthropogenic MP sites, possibly reflecting the prey choice patterns of MP hunters. Overall, the natural accumulation scenario for Rantis Cave provides a rare paleoenvironmental and paleoeconomic reference to the rich anthropogenic MP faunas of the Southern Levant, enabling the reconstruction of a rich and diverse environmental setting for this important human dispersal route. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
英文关键词 | Levantine Middle Paleolithic Middle-Late Pleistocene paleoenvironments taphonomy zooarchaeology |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Israel ; USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; AHCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000297752600001 |
WOS关键词 | PERSIAN FALLOW DEER ; IN-SITU ATTRITION ; QESEM CAVE ; PATTERNS ; DESERT ; RECONSIDERATION ; REINTRODUCTIONS ; NEANDERTHALS ; SPELEOTHEMS ; PROFILES |
WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology |
来源机构 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/169405 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Haifa, Zinman Inst Archaeol, IL-31905 Haifa, Israel; 2.Israel Antiqu Author, IL-91004 Jerusalem, Israel; 3.Harvard Univ, Dept Anthropol, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA; 4.Geol Survey Israel, IL-95501 Jerusalem, Israel; 5.Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Inst Earth Sci, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel; 6.Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Geog, Jerusalem, Israel |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marder, Ofer,Yeshurun, Reuven,Lupu, Ronit,et al. Mammal remains at Rantis Cave, Israel, and Middle-Late Pleistocene human subsistence and ecology in the Southern Levant[J]. Hebrew University of Jerusalem,2011,26(8):769-780. |
APA | Marder, Ofer.,Yeshurun, Reuven.,Lupu, Ronit.,Bar-Oz, Guy.,Belmaker, Miriam.,...&Frumkin, Amos.(2011).Mammal remains at Rantis Cave, Israel, and Middle-Late Pleistocene human subsistence and ecology in the Southern Levant.JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE,26(8),769-780. |
MLA | Marder, Ofer,et al."Mammal remains at Rantis Cave, Israel, and Middle-Late Pleistocene human subsistence and ecology in the Southern Levant".JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE 26.8(2011):769-780. |
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