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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.03.024
	The consumption of tortoise among Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals
	Nabais M.; Zilhão J.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0277-3791
起始页码	225
结束页码	246
卷号	217
英文摘要	Optimal foraging theory and diet breadth models often place large mammals in top-ranking positions due to their high-energy return. However, mass collection of small prey can result in comparable return rates, and dietary diversity is nutritionally beneficial on its own right. A growing body of evidence recovered from several sites in the Mediterranean Basin confirms Neanderthal use of small size prey. Slow-moving, tortoises are an easy catch, and human collection and consumption is demonstrated by taphonomic analysis. In Portugal, two key Middle Palaeolithic cave sites, Gruta da Oliveira and Gruta da Figueira Brava, provide pertinent evidence. Based on an improved osteometric method, in which long bone measurements are standardised and analysed together using the Logarithmic Size Index (LSI), it is possible to better gauge the contribution of tortoises to the diet and the human impact on the species’ populations. At inland Gruta da Oliveira, a tendency towards the massive collection of tortoises, affecting the local population more severely, is apparent. At coastal Gruta da Figueira Brava, the data suggest opportunistic collection upon encounter, possibly due to the availability of a more diverse range of resources. © 2019
英文关键词	Diet breadth; Iberian peninsula; Interglacial; Neanderthal; Pleistocene; Portugal; Small game consumption; Testudo hermanni; Tortoise
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Geology; Natural sciences; Iberian Peninsula; Interglacial; Neanderthals; Pleistocene; Portugal; Small game consumption; Testudo hermanni; Tortoise; Mammals; anthropogenic effect; bone; cave; index method; interglacial; Last Interglacial; Neanderthal; Paleolithic; taphonomy; Tortonian; Iberian Peninsula; Mediterranean Region; Portugal; Mammalia; Testudinidae; Testudo hermanni
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151871
作者单位	Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, Kings Cross, London, WC1H 0PY, United Kingdom; SERP (Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques; SGR2014-00108), Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona, c/ Montalegre 6, Barcelona, 08001, Spain; ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, 08010, Spain; UNIARQ, Centro de Arqueologia, Universidade de Lisboa (UNIARQ), Faculdade de Letras, Alameda da Universidade, Lisboa, 1600-214, Portugal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nabais M.,Zilhão J.. The consumption of tortoise among Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals[J],2019,217.
APA	Nabais M.,&Zilhão J..(2019).The consumption of tortoise among Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals.Quaternary Science Reviews,217.
MLA	Nabais M.,et al."The consumption of tortoise among Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals".Quaternary Science Reviews 217(2019).