DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.004
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84901819852
论文题名: Carnivore activity in the Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca, Spain) hominin sample
作者: Sala N. ; Arsuaga J.L. ; Martínez I. ; Gracia-Téllez A.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2014
卷: 97 起始页码: 71
结束页码: 83
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Homo heidelbergensis
; Middle pleistocene
; Taphonomy
; Tooth marks
Scopus关键词: Geology
; Homo heidelbergensis
; Human remains
; Middle Pleistocene
; Site formation
; Taphonomy
; Tooth marks
; Natural sciences
; bear
; carnivore
; fossil record
; hominid
; Pleistocene
; taphonomy
; tooth
; Burgos [Castilla y Leon]
; Castilla y Leon
; Sierra de Atapuerca
; Spain
英文摘要: The Sima de los Huesos (SH) site is the largest accumulation of human remains from the Middle Pleistocene known to date. Studies in the last two decades have proposed different hypotheses to explain carnivore activity in the SH human sample. This study provides new data in order to test these different interpretations, and therefore to understand the role of the carnivores in site formation at SH. Carnivores are usually not the origin of large accumulations of hominin fossils in the Eurasian record. The results show that marks of carnivore activity in the SH sample appear very infrequently, which we interpret as indicating that carnivore activity was very sporadic at the site. This is in stark contrast with previous studies. The comparison of bone modification patterns at SH to actualistic carnivore data allows us to suggest that bears were likely to have been the carnivore responsible for the modification observed on both human and bear fossils. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60222
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作者单位: Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, C/ Monforte de Lemos, 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Paleontología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología, Geografía y Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Recommended Citation:
Sala N.,Arsuaga J.L.,Martínez I.,et al. Carnivore activity in the Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca, Spain) hominin sample[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2014-01-01,97