Ungulate carcass transport strategies at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Abric Romaní (Capellades, Spain)Stratégies de transport de carcasses d’ongulé au site Paléolithique moyen de l’Abric Romani (Capellades, Espagne)
We evaluated the skeletal profiles from several levels of the Neanderthal site of AbricRomaní, focusing on the methodology proposed by Faith and Gordon (2007): differencesin the skeletal distribution of animals in accordance with their size and weight; the sta-tistical correlation between the skelet...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| Repositorio: | e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/22732 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/22732 |
| Access Level: | acceso cerrado |
| Palabra clave: | 55 Historia neanderthal food resources anatomical profiles unconstrained transport strategy néanderthal ressources de nourriture profils anatomiques stratégie de transport non contraintr |
| Sumario: | We evaluated the skeletal profiles from several levels of the Neanderthal site of AbricRomaní, focusing on the methodology proposed by Faith and Gordon (2007): differencesin the skeletal distribution of animals in accordance with their size and weight; the sta-tistical correlation between the skeletal profiles and standard food utility index; and theanatomical diversity of size-weight categories. Results indicate an unconstrained transportstrategy in all levels and all size-weight categories. However, we also found differences inthe skeletal distribution of medium-sized and large animals, which may be due to differ-ent transport strategies. These characteristics suggest that the superposition of transportand occupation events could be responsible for our results. In addition, we applied thesame analysis to Hadza assemblages, which revealed similar results to those found at AbricRomaní. The most striking feature of the Hadza assemblages examined is the superpositionof transport events as a result of successive occupation/deposition events. This suggeststhat the transport strategies used by Neanderthals at Abric Romaní are also characterizedby a high degree of diversity in transport decisions. |
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