Late Pleistocene Faunal Remains from Seton Rock Shelter, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

1977 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 363 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Hope ◽  
R. J. Lampert ◽  
E. Edmondson ◽  
M. J. Smith ◽  
G. F. van Tets
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Rock Shelter

scholarly journals Thorough assessment of DNA preservation from fossil bone and sediments excavated from a late Pleistocene–Holocene cave deposit on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalal Haouchar ◽  
James Haile ◽  
Matthew C. McDowell ◽  
Dáithí C. Murray ◽  
Nicole E. White ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Fossil Bone ◽  
Dna Preservation ◽  
Cave Deposit

scholarly journals Phytolith Palaeoenvironments at Mumba Rock Shelter

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Mercader ◽  
Siobhán Clarke ◽  
Makarius Itambu ◽  
Abdallah Mohamed ◽  
Musa Mwitondi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Shelter Site ◽  
Northern Tanzania ◽  
Plant Habitat

The rock shelter site of Mumba in northern Tanzania plays a pivotal role in the overall study of the late Pleistocene archaeology of East Africa with an emphasis on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition. We used phytolith analysis to reconstruct general plant habitat physiognomy around the site from the onset of the late Pleistocene to recent times, tallying 4246 individual phytoliths from 19 archaeological samples. Statistical analysis explored phytolith richness, diversity, dominance, and evenness, along with principal components to compare phytolith distributions over the site’s sequence with known plant habitats today. Generally, the phytolith record of Mumba signifies paleoenvironments with analogs in the Somalia – Masai bushland and grassland, as well as Zambezian woodlands.

A Good Place to Live: Plants and People at the Santa Elina Rock Shelter (Central Brazil) from Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Rita Scheel-Ybert ◽  
Caroline Bachelet
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Vegetation Changes ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
Cultural Preference ◽  
Vegetation And Climate ◽  
Over Time

The Santa Elina rock shelter (Central Brazil) was recurrently occupied from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We compare sets of previously published anthracological analyses with new data to reconstruct the landscape, vegetation, and climate over the several thousand years of occupation, providing information on firewood management from about 27,000 to about 1500 cal BP. Laboratory analyses followed standard anthracological procedures. We identified 34 botanical families and 84 genera in a sample of almost 5,000 charcoal pieces. The Leguminosae family dominates the assemblage, followed by Anacardiaceae, Bignoniaceae, Rubiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Sapotaceae. The area surrounding the shelter was forested throughout the studied period. The local landscape was formed, as it is today, by a mosaic of vegetation types that include forest formations and open cerrado. Some regional vegetation changes may have occurred over time. Our data corroborate the practice of opportunistic firewood gathering in all periods of site occupation, despite a possible cultural preference for some taxa. The very long occupation of Santa Elina may be due not only to its attractiveness as a rock shelter but also to the continuously forested vegetation around it. It was a good place to live.

Faunal remains from Borsuka Cave – an example of local climate variability during Late Pleistocene in southern Poland

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarosław Wilczyński ◽  
Barbara Miękina ◽  
Grzegorz Lipecki ◽  
Lembi Lõugas ◽  
Adrian Marciszak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Southern Poland

Megafaunal Butchering at Lubbock Lake, Texas: A Taphonomic Reanalysis

1988 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Ann Kreutzer
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Meat Processing ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Point Bar ◽  
Feature Structure ◽  
Bone Accumulation ◽  
Rule Out

Five seasons of excavation in Feature Area 2-1 of the Lubbock Lake Landmark, Texas, exposed a megafaunal bone accumulation in sands and gravels deposited by a late Pleistocene meandering stream. Many bone specimens exhibit evidence of alteration, supporting interpretation of the feature as an in situ, secondary meat-processing area; the gravels are interpreted as the point bar of a meandering stream. Faunal remains lying stratigraphically above the point bar have been considered to form a separate, noncultural feature produced by stream flooding. However, rose diagrams and analysis of adjusted residuals demonstrate that a statistically significant amount of bone in each feature is aligned along axes of preferred orientation. Further, the orientation patterns and statistical analyses of both features exhibit the same trends, suggesting that the same processes affected both. Although the evidence does not rule out a role of human behavior, it does demonstrate that stream currents significantly influenced feature structure.

Vertebrate Trace Fossils from the Late Pleistocene of Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Ichnos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 232-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron B. Camens ◽  
Stephen P. Carey ◽  
Lee J. Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Trace Fossils
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