Taphonomy of bird (Aves) remains at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, and implications for human-bird interactions during the Pleistocene

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dc.contributor.authorHawkins, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Sue
dc.contributor.authorLouys, Julien
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-28T04:42:55Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2020-12-27T07:21:17Z
dc.description.abstractThe significance of the role of birds in hominin evolution in Island Southeast Asia is not clear. Few avian vertebrate deposits have been recovered from archaeological or fossil sites in the region, and their association with either hominin or natural deposition in caves and rock shelters complicates their usefulness in hominin behavioural and palaeoecological reconstructions. In this paper, we assess the taphonomic history of the Pleistocene avian vertebrate remains recovered from Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, dated to between ca. 44.6 to 11.2 ka and in association with abundant lithic material. We use avian taxonomic composition, skeletal element abundance, and bone surface modification data to determine the agent of avian skeletal deposition. Our analyses indicate that the small grassland and woodland birds (quail, buttonquail, song birds), which dominate the assemblage, were deposited by avian predators (probably barn owls) throughout the sequence. Humans possibly hunted the small quantity of larger birds (imperial pigeon, duck). The bird remains suggest that grasslands, woodland savannahs, wetlands, and forest environments were present locally during the Pleistocene.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research was funded by ARC Laureate Project FL120100156en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1866-9557en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/264162
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherSpringeren_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL120100156en_AU
dc.rights© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2017en_AU
dc.sourceArchaeological and Anthropological Sciencesen_AU
dc.subjectTimor-Lesteen_AU
dc.subjectAvesen_AU
dc.subjectZooarchaeologyen_AU
dc.subjectWallaceaen_AU
dc.subjectTaphonomyen_AU
dc.subjectPalaeoecologyen_AU
dc.subjectOwl roostingen_AU
dc.subjectPleistoceneen_AU
dc.titleTaphonomy of bird (Aves) remains at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, and implications for human-bird interactions during the Pleistoceneen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage6337en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage6325en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationHawkins, Stuart, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationO'Connor, Susan, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLouys, Julien, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu4625859@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidHawkins, Stuart, u4625859en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidO'Connor, Susan, u9413939en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidLouys, Julien, u5386836en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor039900 - OTHER CHEMICAL SCIENCESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor040300 - GEOLOGYen_AU
local.identifier.absfor210100 - ARCHAEOLOGYen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB9926en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume11en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1007/s12520-017-0568-4en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85041632036
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://link.springer.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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