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Where and when? Combining dental wear and death seasons to improve paleoenvironmental reconstruction through ungulate diets

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    Identifier: imarina:9331518
    Authors:
    Uzunidis, ARivals, F
    Abstract:
    Dental meso- and microwear are proxies that allow the diet to be reconstructed. Applied to herbivores, these proxies provide information on vegetation structure and composition. Several studies on fossil populations have proposed environmental reconstructions based on these methods. These studies often focus on a few selected taxa and rarely consider the total variability of ungulate diets at sites in contexts where the seasonality of occupations is often not estimated. The variability of the ungulate diet associated with a better knowledge of the moment of their death can greatly improve the quality and resolution of the environmental interpretation at the scale past hominins experienced. In this paper, we propose a new approach to dental wear to reconstruct environments. We recommend including all available ungulates according to their abundance in the faunal spectrum to consider as many habitats as possible. The combination of dental meso- and microwear allows us to address two scales of time and space–the regional scale over several years and the local scale over one season, respectively. Applied to Teixoneres Cave (Units IIIa and IIIb, Spain) and Pié Lombard (Ensemble II, France), the results confirm previous microfauna analysis and make it possible to characterize the intensity of seasonal turnover.
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Uzunidis, A; Rivals, F
    Department: Història i Història de l'Art
    URV's Author/s: Rivals, Florent Joseph Louis
    Keywords: Vegetation Seasonality Pleistocene Microwear Mesowear Deer cervus-elaphus vegetation teixoneres cave moia seasonality red-deer pleistocene mis 3 microwear large herbivores hustai national-park home-range habitat selection feral horses capreolus-capreolus
    Abstract: Dental meso- and microwear are proxies that allow the diet to be reconstructed. Applied to herbivores, these proxies provide information on vegetation structure and composition. Several studies on fossil populations have proposed environmental reconstructions based on these methods. These studies often focus on a few selected taxa and rarely consider the total variability of ungulate diets at sites in contexts where the seasonality of occupations is often not estimated. The variability of the ungulate diet associated with a better knowledge of the moment of their death can greatly improve the quality and resolution of the environmental interpretation at the scale past hominins experienced. In this paper, we propose a new approach to dental wear to reconstruct environments. We recommend including all available ungulates according to their abundance in the faunal spectrum to consider as many habitats as possible. The combination of dental meso- and microwear allows us to address two scales of time and space–the regional scale over several years and the local scale over one season, respectively. Applied to Teixoneres Cave (Units IIIa and IIIb, Spain) and Pié Lombard (Ensemble II, France), the results confirm previous microfauna analysis and make it possible to characterize the intensity of seasonal turnover.
    Thematic Areas: Science and technology studies History Geociências Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Archeology (arts and humanities) Archeology Archaeology
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: florent.rivals@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0001-8074-9254
    Record's date: 2024-08-03
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X23004339
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Journal Of Archaeological Science: Reports. 52
    APA: Uzunidis, A; Rivals, F (2023). Where and when? Combining dental wear and death seasons to improve paleoenvironmental reconstruction through ungulate diets. Journal Of Archaeological Science: Reports, 52(), -. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104258
    Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104258
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2023
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Archaeology,Archeology,Archeology (Arts and Humanities),History
    Vegetation
    Seasonality
    Pleistocene
    Microwear
    Mesowear
    Deer cervus-elaphus
    vegetation
    teixoneres cave moia
    seasonality
    red-deer
    pleistocene
    mis 3
    microwear
    large herbivores
    hustai national-park
    home-range
    habitat selection
    feral horses
    capreolus-capreolus
    Science and technology studies
    History
    Geociências
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciencias humanas
    Archeology (arts and humanities)
    Archeology
    Archaeology
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