Skip to main content
BAR Publishing
  • Help
  • About
  • Publish with BAR
  • Newsletter
Get access to more books. Log in with your institution.

Your use of this Platform is subject to BAR’s End User License Agreement. Please read it carefully. Materials on the Platform are for the use of authorised users only. Giving access in any form to non-authorised users is prohibited.

Share the story of what Open Access means to you

a graphic of a lock that is open, the universal logo for open access

University of Michigan needs your feedback to better understand how readers are using openly available ebooks. You can help by taking a short, privacy-friendly survey.

  1. Home
  2. Les petits bovidés (Caprini et Rupicaprini) pléistocènes dans le bassin méditerranéen et le Caucase: Etude paléontologique, biostratigraphique, archéozoologique et paléoécologique

Les petits bovidés (Caprini et Rupicaprini) pléistocènes dans le bassin méditerranéen et le Caucase: Etude paléontologique, biostratigraphique, archéozoologique et paléoécologique

Florent Rivals
Restricted You don't have access to this book. Please try to log in with your institution. Log in
Read Book Buy Book
  • Overview

  • Contents

This research explores 4 main genera of bovids found in major Middle and Upper Pleistocene sites in the wider Mediterranean area and the Caucasus. Four geographical zones offer sites from Spain to Azerbaijan and include sites at Caune de l'Arago, Portel-Ouest, Arbreda, Hortus, Orgnac 3, Karaïn, Sakazia, and Asych. From a comprehensive study of the faunal evidence, the work provides an outline of early man's relationship to the environment across a wide area. Typically, a zooarchaeological approach was applied to the sites and levels of units I and III of the Caune de l'Arago. Levels M, N and O from unit I correspond to carnivore occupations while in most of the levels of unit III, argali accumulation is due to human occupation. In level F dated from about 440,000 years, the cavity was occupied from the end of spring to the beginning of summer by groups which practised non selective hunting and argali was the main prey. The study of locomotive and dietary adaptations shows that fossil populations had verycomparable adaptations to those of current populations. Dental microwear shows the seasonal changes in food selection which varied with the hunting season of small bovids and with palaeoenvironmental conditions.
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Remerciements
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Ch. 1
  • Ch. 2
  • Ch. 3
  • Ch. 4
  • Ch. 5
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
Citable Link
Published: 2004
Publisher: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407327549 (ebook)
  • 9781841716725 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1327
Subject
  • Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
  • Archaeobotany / Environment and Climate
  • Mediterranean
  • Prehistory (general titles only)
  • Central and Eastern Europe
BAR Publishing logo +44 (0)1865 310431 info@barpublishing.com www.barpublishing.com

FacebookTwitter

End User License Agreement

© BAR Digital Collection 2023

Powered by Fulcrum logo · Log In
x This site requires cookies to function correctly.