Late Pleistocene leopards as a bone accumulator: taphonomic results from S’Espasa cave and other Iberian key sites

The Pleistocene faunal accumulations documented in caves have commonly been attributed to the activity of humans or carnivores. According to the palaeontological and archaeological literature, cave hyena (Crocuta spelaea) was the main known bone accumulator in karstic environments. However, in recen...

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Autores principales:	Sauqué Latas, Víctor, Sanchis, Alfred, Madurell Malapeira, Joan
Formato:	Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis 2018
Materias:	CAPRA PYRENAICA IBERIAN PENINSULA PANTHERA PARDUS PLEISTOCENE TAPHONOMY Meteorología y Ciencias Atmosféricas Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS Historia Historia y Arqueología HUMANIDADES
Acceso en línea:	http://hdl.handle.net/11336/63006 http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/63006
Aporte de:	Suquía - Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba (IDACOR, CONICET y UNC) de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

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topic	CAPRA PYRENAICA IBERIAN PENINSULA PANTHERA PARDUS PLEISTOCENE TAPHONOMY Meteorología y Ciencias Atmosféricas Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS Historia Historia y Arqueología HUMANIDADES
spellingShingle	CAPRA PYRENAICA IBERIAN PENINSULA PANTHERA PARDUS PLEISTOCENE TAPHONOMY Meteorología y Ciencias Atmosféricas Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS Historia Historia y Arqueología HUMANIDADES Sauqué Latas, Víctor Sanchis, Alfred Madurell Malapeira, Joan Late Pleistocene leopards as a bone accumulator: taphonomic results from S’Espasa cave and other Iberian key sites
topic_facet	CAPRA PYRENAICA IBERIAN PENINSULA PANTHERA PARDUS PLEISTOCENE TAPHONOMY Meteorología y Ciencias Atmosféricas Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS Historia Historia y Arqueología HUMANIDADES
description	The Pleistocene faunal accumulations documented in caves have commonly been attributed to the activity of humans or carnivores. According to the palaeontological and archaeological literature, cave hyena (Crocuta spelaea) was the main known bone accumulator in karstic environments. However, in recent times, the role of leopards as bone accumulators has been revealed, and recent research has identified this behaviour in the Iberian Pleistocene. Moreover, there are other caves where leopard could have been claimed as an accumulator such as S’Espasa. In this work we present its taphonomic study. This cave was compared with the actualistic studies of leopards. Besides, the site of S’Espasa was compared with the other leopard dens in the Iberian Peninsula. These sites present faunal assemblages composed mainly by leopard (Panthera pardus) and Iberian wild goat (Capra pyrenaica), the bones of this ungulate present a similar pattern of bone modification by carnivores, skeletal survival rate, and bone breakage. These features indicate that goats could have been accumulated by leopards. With the data from this work and the previous ones, we try to establish a pattern that will help in the future to identify other accumulations created by this big cat.
format	Artículo Artículo publishedVersion
author	Sauqué Latas, Víctor Sanchis, Alfred Madurell Malapeira, Joan
author_facet	Sauqué Latas, Víctor Sanchis, Alfred Madurell Malapeira, Joan
author_sort	Sauqué Latas, Víctor
title	Late Pleistocene leopards as a bone accumulator: taphonomic results from S’Espasa cave and other Iberian key sites
title_short	Late Pleistocene leopards as a bone accumulator: taphonomic results from S’Espasa cave and other Iberian key sites
title_full	Late Pleistocene leopards as a bone accumulator: taphonomic results from S’Espasa cave and other Iberian key sites
title_fullStr	Late Pleistocene leopards as a bone accumulator: taphonomic results from S’Espasa cave and other Iberian key sites
title_full_unstemmed	Late Pleistocene leopards as a bone accumulator: taphonomic results from S’Espasa cave and other Iberian key sites
title_sort	late pleistocene leopards as a bone accumulator: taphonomic results from s’espasa cave and other iberian key sites
publisher	Taylor & Francis
publishDate	2018
url	http://hdl.handle.net/11336/63006 http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/63006
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Late Pleistocene leopards as a bone accumulator: taphonomic results from S’Espasa cave and other Iberian key sites

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