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dc.contributor.authorHawkins, S
dc.contributor.authorO’Connor, S
dc.contributor.authorLouys, J
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-17T03:42:58Z
dc.date.available2019-09-17T03:42:58Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn1866-9557
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12520-017-0568-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/387418
dc.description.abstractThe significance of the role of birds in hominin evolution in Island Southeast Asia is not clear. Few avian vertebrate deposits have been recovered from archaeological or fossil sites in the region, and their association with either hominin or natural deposition in caves and rock shelters complicates their usefulness in hominin behavioural and palaeoecological reconstructions. In this paper, we assess the taphonomic history of the Pleistocene avian vertebrate remains recovered from Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, dated to between ca. 44.6 to 11.2 ka and in association with abundant lithic material. We use avian taxonomic composition, skeletal element abundance, and bone surface modification data to determine the agent of avian skeletal deposition. Our analyses indicate that the small grassland and woodland birds (quail, buttonquail, song birds), which dominate the assemblage, were deposited by avian predators (probably barn owls) throughout the sequence. Humans possibly hunted the small quantity of larger birds (imperial pigeon, duck). The bird remains suggest that grasslands, woodland savannahs, wetlands, and forest environments were present locally during the Pleistocene.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto13
dc.relation.ispartofjournalArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchArchaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3705
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4301
dc.titleTaphonomy of bird (Aves) remains at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, and implications for human-bird interactions during the Pleistocene
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHawkins, S; O’Connor, S; Louys, J, Taphonomy of bird (Aves) remains at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, and implications for human-bird interactions during the Pleistocene, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2017, pp. 1-13
dc.date.updated2019-09-17T03:42:00Z
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version
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gro.griffith.authorLouys, Julien


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