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Gilbert Pion - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Investigating the exploitation pattern of a newly established species, the case of the Late-Glacial roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) at La Fru (Savoie, France)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2020Co-Authors: Anne Bridault, Annelise Binois-roman, Dorothée Drucker, Gilbert PionAbstract:The Late-Glacial period offers a key window into the expansion of temperate species from southern refugia towards northern areas and the impact of faunal change on hunting strategies. In the Jura and in the Alps, the arrival of red deer and the withdrawal of reindeer are coeval with the warming of the GI-1e. Very little is known about roe deer, however. A high-resolution study of the rich archaeofauna from the Early Azilian occupation at the Northern Alpine site of La Fru provides data on the habitat and exploitation of roe deer. Roe deer populations were already established in the region in the early Bölling (~GI-1e), as is shown by the earliest Radiocarbon Date of roe deer bones (14.7–14.3 ky cal BP, 1σ). This is the earliest post-Last Glacial Maximum evidence of this species in northern France. The specimens from the site show the highest δ15 N values among the deer species present in the areas. This is probably linked to the roe deer’s selective foraging of highly nutritious vegetation already available in the open habitat at that time. Our zooarchaeological study shows that roe deer was a key resource at La Fru and was intensively hunted between May and September. The mortality profile indicates a “deliberate” targeting of inexperienced subadults and weaker older animals. These new data provide further evidence that there was both a reorganization of the animal environment and a reorientation of hunting on red deer and roe deer associated with the Early Azilian culture during the Bölling chronozone.
Anne Bridault - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Investigating the exploitation pattern of a newly established species, the case of the Late-Glacial roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) at La Fru (Savoie, France)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2020Co-Authors: Anne Bridault, Annelise Binois-roman, Dorothée Drucker, Gilbert PionAbstract:The Late-Glacial period offers a key window into the expansion of temperate species from southern refugia towards northern areas and the impact of faunal change on hunting strategies. In the Jura and in the Alps, the arrival of red deer and the withdrawal of reindeer are coeval with the warming of the GI-1e. Very little is known about roe deer, however. A high-resolution study of the rich archaeofauna from the Early Azilian occupation at the Northern Alpine site of La Fru provides data on the habitat and exploitation of roe deer. Roe deer populations were already established in the region in the early Bölling (~GI-1e), as is shown by the earliest Radiocarbon Date of roe deer bones (14.7–14.3 ky cal BP, 1σ). This is the earliest post-Last Glacial Maximum evidence of this species in northern France. The specimens from the site show the highest δ15 N values among the deer species present in the areas. This is probably linked to the roe deer’s selective foraging of highly nutritious vegetation already available in the open habitat at that time. Our zooarchaeological study shows that roe deer was a key resource at La Fru and was intensively hunted between May and September. The mortality profile indicates a “deliberate” targeting of inexperienced subadults and weaker older animals. These new data provide further evidence that there was both a reorganization of the animal environment and a reorientation of hunting on red deer and roe deer associated with the Early Azilian culture during the Bölling chronozone.
David B Madsen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mind the gaps testing for hiatuses in regional Radiocarbon Date sequences
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2014Co-Authors: David Rhode, Jeffrey P Brantingham, Charles Perreault, David B MadsenAbstract:Long gaps in regional Radiocarbon sequences are often considered evidence for occupation hiatuses, but they might also be a product of stochastic processes of occupation and limited numbers of Dates. Here we show that, if Radiocarbon Dates over a span of time are distributed as a Poisson random variable (such that any point in that span has an equal probability of being Dated), the gaps between Dates will approximate a negative exponential distribution, with many short gaps and a few long ones. Long gaps between Dates are to be expected under these conditions, even in the absence of true occupation hiatuses. This exponential distribution of gap lengths is robust even when the uniform probability assumption is relaxed, though true hiatuses have a distinctive, if subtle, signature. We use this model to assess the regional Radiocarbon sequence from Qinghai Lake basin, western China, which shows two long possible occupation hiatuses during the period 12,500e4200
Dorothée Drucker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Investigating the exploitation pattern of a newly established species, the case of the Late-Glacial roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) at La Fru (Savoie, France)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2020Co-Authors: Anne Bridault, Annelise Binois-roman, Dorothée Drucker, Gilbert PionAbstract:The Late-Glacial period offers a key window into the expansion of temperate species from southern refugia towards northern areas and the impact of faunal change on hunting strategies. In the Jura and in the Alps, the arrival of red deer and the withdrawal of reindeer are coeval with the warming of the GI-1e. Very little is known about roe deer, however. A high-resolution study of the rich archaeofauna from the Early Azilian occupation at the Northern Alpine site of La Fru provides data on the habitat and exploitation of roe deer. Roe deer populations were already established in the region in the early Bölling (~GI-1e), as is shown by the earliest Radiocarbon Date of roe deer bones (14.7–14.3 ky cal BP, 1σ). This is the earliest post-Last Glacial Maximum evidence of this species in northern France. The specimens from the site show the highest δ15 N values among the deer species present in the areas. This is probably linked to the roe deer’s selective foraging of highly nutritious vegetation already available in the open habitat at that time. Our zooarchaeological study shows that roe deer was a key resource at La Fru and was intensively hunted between May and September. The mortality profile indicates a “deliberate” targeting of inexperienced subadults and weaker older animals. These new data provide further evidence that there was both a reorganization of the animal environment and a reorientation of hunting on red deer and roe deer associated with the Early Azilian culture during the Bölling chronozone.
Annelise Binois-roman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Investigating the exploitation pattern of a newly established species, the case of the Late-Glacial roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) at La Fru (Savoie, France)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2020Co-Authors: Anne Bridault, Annelise Binois-roman, Dorothée Drucker, Gilbert PionAbstract:The Late-Glacial period offers a key window into the expansion of temperate species from southern refugia towards northern areas and the impact of faunal change on hunting strategies. In the Jura and in the Alps, the arrival of red deer and the withdrawal of reindeer are coeval with the warming of the GI-1e. Very little is known about roe deer, however. A high-resolution study of the rich archaeofauna from the Early Azilian occupation at the Northern Alpine site of La Fru provides data on the habitat and exploitation of roe deer. Roe deer populations were already established in the region in the early Bölling (~GI-1e), as is shown by the earliest Radiocarbon Date of roe deer bones (14.7–14.3 ky cal BP, 1σ). This is the earliest post-Last Glacial Maximum evidence of this species in northern France. The specimens from the site show the highest δ15 N values among the deer species present in the areas. This is probably linked to the roe deer’s selective foraging of highly nutritious vegetation already available in the open habitat at that time. Our zooarchaeological study shows that roe deer was a key resource at La Fru and was intensively hunted between May and September. The mortality profile indicates a “deliberate” targeting of inexperienced subadults and weaker older animals. These new data provide further evidence that there was both a reorganization of the animal environment and a reorientation of hunting on red deer and roe deer associated with the Early Azilian culture during the Bölling chronozone.
