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	Large mammal and tortoise bones from Elands Bay Cave (South Africa): implications for Later Stone Age environment and ecology
	Klein, Richard G.; Cruz-Uribe, Kathryn
通讯作者	Klein, RG (corresponding author), Stanford Univ, Program Human Biol, Bldg 20, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
来源期刊	SOUTHERN AFRICAN HUMANITIES
ISSN	1681-5564
出版年	2016
卷号	29 页码:259-282
英文摘要	Elands Bay Cave has provided abundant large mammal and angulate tortoise bones from three Later Stone Age occupational pulses, bracketed by radiocarbon between 13 600 and 7800 b. p., 4300 and 3100 b. p., and 1800 and 300 b. p. (the radiocarbon ages here and below are uncalibrated). The mammal bones come from thirty-four species as large or larger than the Cape dune molerat. Fur seals, steenbok/ grysbok, and molerat dominate heavily. Other species occur mainly as traces, especially in deposits postdating 9600 b. p. Fur seal bones appear first in layers dated to about 11 000 b. p., where together with intertidal shells, they record the post-glacial rise in sea level that brought the coastline to approximately its current position about 1400 years later. The terrestrial mammals record a change from moister, grassier surroundings before about 9600 b. p. to drier, scrubbier ones afterwards. Deposits dated between 12 000 and 10 000 b. p. document the youngest known occurrence of the large, extinct Cape zebra. Median tortoise size suggests that local human collectors were most numerous about 10 000 b. p., coincident with the time when the density of occupational debris implies especially intensive human use of the cave. Average fur seal age suggests people were present mainly in the August-October interval when dead or exhausted 9-11 month old seals would have been especially abundant on the nearby shore.
英文关键词	Elands Bay Cave Later Stone Age ecology Cape zebra seasonality of occupation
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000401937600009
WOS关键词	QUATERNARY CLIMATIC-CHANGE ; WOOD CHARCOAL ASSEMBLAGES ; WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE ; SOUTHWESTERN CAPE ; BOOMPLAAS CAVE ; SIZE VARIATION ; HYENA-BRUNNEA ; NAMIB DESERT ; DIE KELDERS ; PLEISTOCENE
WOS类目	Humanities, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/361636
作者单位	[Klein, Richard G.] Stanford Univ, Program Human Biol, Bldg 20, Stanford, CA 94305 USA; [Cruz-Uribe, Kathryn] Indiana Univ East, Off Chancellor, 2325 Chester Blvd, Richmond, IN 47374 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Klein, Richard G.,Cruz-Uribe, Kathryn. Large mammal and tortoise bones from Elands Bay Cave (South Africa): implications for Later Stone Age environment and ecology[J],2016,29:259-282.
APA	Klein, Richard G.,&Cruz-Uribe, Kathryn.(2016).Large mammal and tortoise bones from Elands Bay Cave (South Africa): implications for Later Stone Age environment and ecology.SOUTHERN AFRICAN HUMANITIES,29,259-282.
MLA	Klein, Richard G.,et al."Large mammal and tortoise bones from Elands Bay Cave (South Africa): implications for Later Stone Age environment and ecology".SOUTHERN AFRICAN HUMANITIES 29(2016):259-282.