From Reindeer to Wallaby: Recovering Patterns of Seasonality, Mobility, and Prey Selection in the Palaeolithic Old World |
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| Authors: | Anne Pike-Tay Richard Cosgrove |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York;(2) Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Data regarding major human prey from Franco-Cantabrian Palaeolithic sites have been gained through skeletochronological analyses. Trends gleaned from these data suggest temporal shifts in mobility, territoriality, and subsistence strategies. Compilation of control samples of teeth of recent animals (e.g., Cervus, Rangifer, Equus, Capreolus, Bos) of known-age and date-of-death has been requisite to these growth-increment studies. These methods have now been applied to modern Bennett's wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) populations from Tasmania in order to expand the potential of skeletochronological study for Australia's Palaeolithic-aged marsupial archaeofaunas. |
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| Keywords: | dental increment studies macropod zooarchaeology seasonality Tasmania |
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