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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] Tortoises Tortoises as a dietary supplement: A view from the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel Ruth Blasco cs 2016 Quaternary Science Reviews 133:165182 doi 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.006 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.006> <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.006>Get> €Dietary reconstructions reflect the human capacity for adaptation to the environment. €Faunal remains allow for the study of behavioural variation & its evolutionary significance. €Tortoises represent an important combination of edible & non-edible resources. €Tortoises served mainly as supplementary resources at Qesem Cave, 420-300 ka. €Data on small game at Qesem shed light on livelihood strategies & eco-social behaviour. ... How did hominids fill the gaps in large prey availability with small game? What role did small game play in pre-Upper-Palaeolithic societies? Some of this work has focused on tortoises: they represent an important combination of edible & non-edible resources, that are easy to collect if available. The exploitation of these slow-moving animals features prominently in prey choice models: the low handling costs of these reptiles make up for their small body size. Here, we present new taphonomic data from 2 tortoise assemblages (lower sequence of the Mid-Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave 420-300 ka). We show -hominid damage on large tortoise specimens from Qesem Cave is not unusual, -cut-marks, percussion marks & consistent patterns of burning suggests established sequences of processing to access the visceral content, e.g. -- cooking in the shell, -- defleshing & -- direct percussion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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