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The contribution of limb bone fracture patterns to reconstructing early hominid behaviour at Swartkrans Cave (South Africa): Archaeological application of a new analytical method

机译:肢骨骨折模式对重建Swartkrans Cave(南非)早期人类行为的贡献:一种新的分析方法在考古学中的应用

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Recently, Alcantara Garcia et al. (in press) presented a new method and criteria for distinguishing between fractures imparted by hominid hammerstone percussion and carnivores chewing on 'green' limb bones of ungulates. The method uses a combination of fracture plane and fracture angle data that are useful for elucidating the relative role of hominids in the accumulation of prehistoric archaeofaunas, especially when employed in concert with other classes of taphonomic data. We briefly summarise the method and apply it to the ungulate limb bone subassemblage from Swartkrans Member 3, a c. 1.0 million year old site from South Africa that preserves Early Stone Age lithic artefacts, hominid fossils, and an abundant mammalian fauna with cutmarked, hammerstone-percussed and burned bone specimens. Results of the fracture pattern analysis corroborate indications from other lines of taphonomic data that there was minimal carnivore-hominid interdependence in the formation of the fauna, and that carnivores were probably responsible for the majority of the bone collection in Member 3. However, we also document a significant hominid influence on assemblage formation, a finding that expands and refines our understanding of large animal carcass foraging by hominics in southern Africa during the early Pleistocene. Copyright (c) 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
机译:最近,Alcantara Garcia等人。 (印刷中)提出了一种新的方法和标准,用以区分人为锤击和stone食在有蹄动物的“绿色”四肢骨骼上的食肉动物。该方法使用了断裂平面和断裂角数据的组合,可用于阐明人类在史前古植物的积累中的相对作用,尤其是与其他类别的数据结合使用时。我们简要总结了该方法,并将其应用于Swartkrans成员3,c的有蹄类动物的肢骨组件。来自南非的100万年前的遗址,保存着石器时代早期的石器物,原始人化石以及丰富的哺乳动物动物区系,上面刻有刻痕,锤石撞击和燃烧的骨标本。骨折模式分析的结果证实了其他系谱数据的迹象,即在动物区系的形成中食肉动物与人的相互依存性极低,食肉动物可能是第3部分中大部分骨骼收集的原因。但是,我们也文献记载了人类对装配体形成的重大影响,这一发现扩大并完善了我们在更新世早期对南部非洲人为动物的大型动物car体觅食的理解。版权所有(c)2004 John Wiley&Sons,Ltd.

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