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Implications of Age Structures for Epipaleolithic Hunting Strategies in the Western Taurus Mountains, Southwest Turkey

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ID4655893
AuthorsLevent Atici, Levent Atıcı (0000-0002-4929-173X, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume44
Issue1
Pages13-39
Publication date2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropozoologica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0761-3032 • E-ISSN: 2107-0881
PublisherMuseum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5252/az2009n1a1
OpenAlexW1980762102
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited43

Atici L. 2009. — Implications of Age Structures for Epipaleolithic Hunting Strategies in the Western Taurus Mountains, Southwest Turkey. Anthropozoologica 44(1): 13-39.This paper investigates hunter-gatherer behavioral strategies during the Epipaleolithic period in the western Taurus Mountains of Mediterranean Turkey. Seven archaeofaunal assemblages excavated from Karain B and Öküzini caves were analyzed and interpreted with a special emphasis on age structures and their implications for general hunting strategies, site function and use, and seasonality. A detailed analysis of age structures based on dental wear and epiphyseal fusion data combined with other zooarchaeological evidence has revealed that hunter-gatherers in the Western Taurus Mountains intensively hunted wild sheep and goat, mostly targeted prime-age animals, shifted from seasonally restricted site use and hunting to unrestricted multiseasonal site use and hunting pattern, and progressively hunted larger number of juvenile caprines throughout the Epipaleolithic

Archaeology · Biology · Cave · Geography · Juvenile · Mediterranean climate · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology

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Citation span2009 - 2024 (16)
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