TY - JOUR
T1 - Bird remains from the Middle Paleolithic levels (MIS3) of Llonin Cave (Peñamellera Alta, Asturias, Spain)
AU - Núñez-Lahuerta, Carmen
AU - Sauqué, Víctor
AU - Sanchis, Alfred
AU - Duarte, Elsa
AU - De La Rasilla, Marco
N1 - Funding Information:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04035%2F2020/PT#
CNL was awarded a grant by the Regional Government of Aragón, cofunded by the European Social Fund, and with a position in the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa within the project TDC/CTAPAL/31656/2017, financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). This work has been funded under Project MINECO2015HAR2014-59183P “Paleoambiente, Economía y Sociedad durante el MIS 3 en el Occidente Cantábrico” (Palaeoenvironment, Economy and Society during MIS 3 in the western Cantabrian region). We would like to thank I.G.I for the revision of the text in French, and A.F. for the revision of the text in English. The authors also thank Hanneke Meijer and the anonymous reviewer for their useful comments and suggestions that greatly improved the manuscript.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Birds are abundant in fossil assemblages of Quaternary sites; they can be used in landscape reconstruction as they are well adapted to the environment. Here we present the analysis of the avian assemblage from the Middle Paleolithic levels of the Llonin Cave, where 558 bird remains have been recovered from levels G-VI and CP-VIII, belonging to at least ten different taxa: Aves indet., Galliformes indet., Lagopus lagopus Linnaeus, 1758, Tetrastes bonasia Linnaeus, 1758, Columba livia/ oenas Gmelin, 1789/Linnaeus, 1758, Passeriformes indet., Alaudidae indet., Motacilla sp., Turdus sp., Corvidae indet., Garrulus glandarius Linnaeus, 1758, Pyrrhocorax sp., Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax Linnaeus, 1758, Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus, 1766 and Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758. This assemblage is similar to other assemblages from the Upper Pleistocene of the north of the Iberian Peninsula, and it reflects a mixed landscape, with open areas and woodland. The taphonomic analysis points to a mixed origin of the accumulation, mainly formed by medium-sized corvids dying in the cave, and also raptors accumulating their prey.
AB - Birds are abundant in fossil assemblages of Quaternary sites; they can be used in landscape reconstruction as they are well adapted to the environment. Here we present the analysis of the avian assemblage from the Middle Paleolithic levels of the Llonin Cave, where 558 bird remains have been recovered from levels G-VI and CP-VIII, belonging to at least ten different taxa: Aves indet., Galliformes indet., Lagopus lagopus Linnaeus, 1758, Tetrastes bonasia Linnaeus, 1758, Columba livia/ oenas Gmelin, 1789/Linnaeus, 1758, Passeriformes indet., Alaudidae indet., Motacilla sp., Turdus sp., Corvidae indet., Garrulus glandarius Linnaeus, 1758, Pyrrhocorax sp., Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax Linnaeus, 1758, Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus, 1766 and Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758. This assemblage is similar to other assemblages from the Upper Pleistocene of the north of the Iberian Peninsula, and it reflects a mixed landscape, with open areas and woodland. The taphonomic analysis points to a mixed origin of the accumulation, mainly formed by medium-sized corvids dying in the cave, and also raptors accumulating their prey.
KW - Avifauna
KW - Iberian Peninsula
KW - Karstic system
KW - Lagopus
KW - Middle Paleolithic
KW - Tetrastes
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85113325551
U2 - 10.5852/CR-PALEVOL2021V20A30
DO - 10.5852/CR-PALEVOL2021V20A30
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113325551
SN - 1631-0683
SP - 627
EP - 640
JO - Comptes Rendus - Palevol
JF - Comptes Rendus - Palevol
IS - 30
ER -