TY - JOUR
T1 - Shearwater Eggs in Lobos 3, a Holocene Site of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands)
AU - Núñez-Lahuerta, Carmen
AU - Moreno-Azanza, Miguel
AU - Pérez-Pueyo, Manuel
AU - Del-Arco-Aguilar, M. del Carmen
AU - Del-Arco-Aguilar, Mercedes
AU - Siverio-Batista, Celia
AU - Castillo-Ruiz, Carolina
AU - Cruzado-Caballero, Penélope
N1 - Funding Information:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/PTDC%2FCTA-PAL%2F31656%2F2017/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04035%2F2020/PT#
The financial support for this work has been provided by CajaCanarias (project 2018PATRI17);
PLEC2021-008203 project, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR; PID2021122612OB-I00 project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and AEI/FEDER UE. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) has received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the ‘María de Maeztu’ program for Units of Excellence (Grant no. CEX2019-000945-M). CNL and MMA are supported by by the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and co-financed by the NextGeneration EU/PRTR, Juan de la Cierva-Formación contract FJC2020-044561-I and Ramón y Cajal contract RYC2021-034473-I respectively. MPP is funded by PhD grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (Grant Number FPU 16/03064).
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PY - 2023/1/20
Y1 - 2023/1/20
N2 - Two eggs (L29 and N28) were recovered in the Holocene site of Lobos 3, (Islote de Lobos, north Fuerteventura, Canary Islands), the site has been interpreted as a purple dye workshop from the Early Roman Empire Epoch. For the first time, eggs from a Holocene deposit of the Canary Islands have been analyzed in terms of size, shape, and biomineral structure, and studied on the basis of several thin sections and SEM analysis. The analysis of the remains allowed the assignation of both eggs to Procellariidae birds, thanks to the relative proportion of the eggshell layers and the vesiculation patterns. The size of the eggs allowed the assignation of L29 to cf. Calonectris/Puffinus, and to cf. Puffinus for N28. The absence of more structural analysis on Procellariiformes eggshells prevent a more specific assignation. The accumulation pattern of the eggs is compatible with a seasonal occupation pattern of the Roman site.
AB - Two eggs (L29 and N28) were recovered in the Holocene site of Lobos 3, (Islote de Lobos, north Fuerteventura, Canary Islands), the site has been interpreted as a purple dye workshop from the Early Roman Empire Epoch. For the first time, eggs from a Holocene deposit of the Canary Islands have been analyzed in terms of size, shape, and biomineral structure, and studied on the basis of several thin sections and SEM analysis. The analysis of the remains allowed the assignation of both eggs to Procellariidae birds, thanks to the relative proportion of the eggshell layers and the vesiculation patterns. The size of the eggs allowed the assignation of L29 to cf. Calonectris/Puffinus, and to cf. Puffinus for N28. The absence of more structural analysis on Procellariiformes eggshells prevent a more specific assignation. The accumulation pattern of the eggs is compatible with a seasonal occupation pattern of the Roman site.
KW - Calonectris
KW - complete eggs
KW - Puffinus
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149127818&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/d15020144
DO - 10.3390/d15020144
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85149127818
SN - 1424-2818
VL - 15
JO - Diversity
JF - Diversity
IS - 2
M1 - 144
ER -