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DOI	10.1002/jqs.3402
	An African adder (Bitis arietans complex) at Qafzeh Cave, Israel, during the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5)
	Biton, Rebecca; Bailon, Salvador
通讯作者	Biton, R (corresponding author), Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Bible Archaeol & Ancient Near East, Beer Sheva, Israel.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE
ISSN	0267-8179
EISSN	1099-1417
出版年	2021-12
英文摘要	We studied Viperidae remains from Qafzeh Cave, Israel, to understand past dispersal timing and range expansion of Afro-Arabian taxa to the Southern Levant during the early Late Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stage 5). A total of 62 African adder (Bitis) snake remains were retrieved from multiple layers at Qafzeh Cave, alongside five non-Bitis 'Oriental viper' taxa vertebrae. These are the only available specimens of Bitis ever reported in the Southern Levant. The morphology of the maxilla and vertebrae corresponds well to that of the Bitis arietans complex. Qafzeh Cave thus becomes the northernmost boundary of the B. arietans complex expansion ever recorded outside Africa. The unprecedented occurrence of Bitis at Qafzeh Cave, in conjunction with other archaeozoological evidence at the site, attest to exceptional climatic and environmental conditions in the surroundings of the cave during the Mousterian Homo sapiens occupations. It reinforces previous evidence for taxa expanding from sub-Saharan Africa to the Mediterranean biome of the Southern Levant through the now hyper-arid Saharo-Arabian desert belt. The environmental conditions following deposition of the early Late Pleistocene layers were probably not favourable for the establishment of the snake, and eventually the B. arietans complex became locally extirpated.
英文关键词	adder snake MIS 5 Mousterian southern Levant Viperidae
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000729916500001
WOS关键词	MODERN HUMANS ; HOMO-SAPIENS ; HUMAN OCCUPATION ; DISPERSAL ; PALEOENVIRONMENT ; PALEOCLIMATE ; SPELEOTHEMS ; VIPERIDAE ; MODELS ; DESERT
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/374719
作者单位	[Biton, Rebecca] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Bible Archaeol & Ancient Near East, Beer Sheva, Israel; [Bailon, Salvador] MNHN, CNRS, UMR7209 Archeozool Archeobot Soc Prat & Environm, Paris, France; [Bailon, Salvador] UPVD, UMR Hist Nat Homme Prehist 7194, CNRS, MNHN, Paris, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Biton, Rebecca,Bailon, Salvador. An African adder (Bitis arietans complex) at Qafzeh Cave, Israel, during the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5)[J],2021.
APA	Biton, Rebecca,&Bailon, Salvador.(2021).An African adder (Bitis arietans complex) at Qafzeh Cave, Israel, during the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5).JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE.
MLA	Biton, Rebecca,et al."An African adder (Bitis arietans complex) at Qafzeh Cave, Israel, during the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5)".JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE (2021).