DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.006
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84953339134
论文题名: Tortoises as a dietary supplement: A view from the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel
作者: Blasco R. ; Rosell J. ; Smith K.T. ; Maul L.C. ; Sañudo P. ; Barkai R. ; Gopher A.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2016
卷: 133 起始页码: 165
结束页码: 182
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Levant
; Middle Pleistocene
; Qesem Cave
; Small game
; Taphonomy
; Tortoises
Scopus关键词: Caves
; Levant
; Middle Pleistocene
; Small game
; Taphonomy
; Tortoises
; Dietary supplements
; Animalia
; Hominidae
; Reptilia
; Testudinidae
英文摘要: Dietary reconstructions can offer an improved perspective on human capacities of adaptation to the environment. New methodological approaches and analytical techniques have led to a theoretical framework for understanding how human groups used and adapted to their local environment. Faunal remains provide an important potential source of dietary information and allow study of behavioural variation and its evolutionary significance. Interest in determining how hominids filled the gaps in large prey availability with small game or what role small game played in pre-Upper Palaeolithic societies is an area of active research. Some of this work has focused on tortoises because they represent an important combination of edible and non-edible resources that are easy to collect if available. The exploitation of these slow-moving animals features prominently in prey choice models because the low handling costs of these reptiles make up for their small body size. Here, we present new taphonomic data from two tortoise assemblages extracted from the lower sequence of the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel (420-300 ka), with the aim of assessing the socio-economic factors that may have led to the inclusion of this type of resource in the human diets. We show that hominid damage on large tortoise specimens from Qesem Cave is not unusual and that evidence such as cut marks, percussion marks and consistent patterns of burning suggests established sequences of processing, including cooking in the shell, defleshing, and direct percussion to access the visceral content. These matters make it possible not only to assess the potential role of tortoises as prey, but also to evaluate collecting behaviour in the resource acquisition systems and eco-social strategies at the Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex (AYCC) in the southern Levant. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59702
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作者单位: Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca 3, Burgos, Spain; Department of Archaeology, Tel-Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology, POB 39040, Tel Aviv, Israel; IPHES; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), Tarragona, Spain; Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, Tarragona, Spain; Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Am Jakobskirchhof 4, Weimar, Germany
Recommended Citation:
Blasco R.,Rosell J.,Smith K.T.,et al. Tortoises as a dietary supplement: A view from the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,133