“…Mortality curves are usually constructed from dental remains of large mammals (essentially ungulates: Grayson, 1978Grayson, , 1984Ringrose, 1993;Lyman, 1994;Steele, 2004Steele, , 2005 or small mammals (rabbit-sized or smaller: Korth and Evander, 1986;Bryant, 1991;Weissbrod et al, 2005) since teeth are generally the best-preserved elements. Age profiles are then usually related to attritional or catastrophic mortality patterns (Brugal and David, 1993;Klein, 1982;Klein and Cruz-Uribe, 1983;Levine, 1983;Lubinski, 2000;Lubinski and O'Brien, 2001;Lyman, 1994;Steele and Weaver, 2002;Stiner, 1990).…”