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2021, Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyCitation Excerpt :Given the rather limited set of observations, no conclusions regarding the depositional history of SBF during the early Holocene can be reached at this stage. Seal distal humeri data (n = 30) from EBC indicate that most of the individuals in packages 19–10 were procured in late winter and early spring (Klein and Cruz-Uribe 2016), while seal mandible metrical data (n = 41) reveals less of a seasonal focus (Woodborne et al. 1995; see also Parkington et al. 2020), which agrees with the evidence of more frequent and longer visitation for at least half of this sequence. Selected samples of bird species were studied within a previous chrono-stratigraphic framework, where packages 11 and 12 are not represented in this study (Avery 1990).
Contemporaneity and entanglement: Archaeological site structure from a Bayesian perspective
2020, Journal of Archaeological Science: ReportsCitation Excerpt :This reflects a different approach in which they refer to assumed seal ‘ages’ rather than presumed ‘month of death’. In our view their reference set of ‘circa 9 month olds’ contains both yearlings and second years culled together between the months of August and October, leading to a less discriminatory result than ours, reminiscent of that of Woodborne et al. (1995). It seems to us to be significant that the seal mandible signals for DFM and the Late Holocene sample from EBC are the same, whatever the seasonal nature of this may be.
Subsistence strategies throughout the African Middle Pleistocene: Faunal evidence for behavioral change and continuity across the Earlier to Middle Stone Age transition
2019, Journal of Human EvolutionCitation Excerpt :Also, variation in the typical body size of tortoises may reflect human predation pressure (Klein and Cruz-Uribe, 1983). At coastal South Africa sites, Cape fur seals and penguins were regularly consumed (Marean, 1986; Woodborne et al., 1995; Klein and Cruz-Uribe, 1996; Klein et al., 1999c; Steele and Klein, 2009). In addition, a number of MSA shell middens have now been documented, indicating that marine mollusks provided an important food resource when available (Avery et al., 2008; Kyriacou et al., 2015; Will et al., 2016).
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