New materials of the white rhinoceros <i>Ceratotherium simum</i> and auerochs <i>Bos primigenius</i> from a Late Pleistocene terrace of the Oued el Haï (NE Morocco) - two elements of the Maghrebi Palearctic fauna

Aouraghe, Hassan; Made, Jan van der; Haddoumi, Hamid; Agustı́, Jordi; Benito‐Calvo, Alfonso; Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Antonio; Lazagabaster, Ignacio A.; Souhir, Mohamed; Mhamdi, Hicham; Atmani, Abderrahman El; Ewague, Abdelhadi; Sala-Ramos, Robert; Chacón, María Gema

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“…2012) or Asia (Gentry 2010), but its fossil record is most abundant in Eurasia and northern Africa and so can broadly be considered a Palaearctic element (see discussion in Aouraghe et al . 2021: 5–6). The earliest remains of Bos in the southern Levant are recorded from Early Pleistocene Daqara (Scardia et al .…”

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The Late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna of Oumm Qatafa Cave, Judean Desert: taxonomy, taphonomy and palaeoenvironment

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J Quaternary Science

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The Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of the southern Levant has proven key to understanding human evolution and intercontinental faunal biogeography. Knowledge of archaeological sites of that period in the southern Levant is biased, with most Middle Pleistocene localities in the Mediterranean areas in the north, despite the mosaic of environments that mark the entire region. A key Middle Pleistocene location in the Judean Deserton the eastern margin of the Mediterranean zoneis the site of Oumm Qatafa, excavated in the early 1900s, which yielded a faunal collection spanning an estimated time period of 600-200 kya. Here, we present a revised taxonomy of the macromammalian fauna from the site, discuss the palaeoenvironmental implications of this assemblage, and relate the finds to other Pleistocene sites from the Levant. These data enable a more precise palaeoenvironmental reconstruction which attests to an open landscape, but with the addition of a mesic Mediterranean component close by. In addition, detailed taphonomic observations on butchery marks and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis of burnt bone link the fauna for the first time to anthropogenic activities in the cave.

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