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

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    Identificador: imarina:9331518
    Autores:
    Uzunidis, ARivals, F
    Resumen:
    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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    Autor según el artículo: Uzunidis, A; Rivals, F
    Departamento: Història i Història de l'Art
    Autor/es de la URV: Rivals, Florent Joseph Louis
    Palabras clave: 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
    Resumen: 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.
    Áreas temáticas: Science and technology studies History Geociências Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Archeology (arts and humanities) Archeology Archaeology
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Direcció de correo del autor: florent.rivals@urv.cat
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-8074-9254
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-08-03
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X23004339
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Journal Of Archaeological Science: Reports. 52
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes 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
    DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104258
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2023
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
  • Palabras clave:

    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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