Small mammals: !Kung San utilization and the production of faunal assemblages

Changes in the ‘Connectedness’ and Resilience of Paleolithic Societies in Mediterranean Ecosystems

“…Daily requirements for complete dietary protein are modest but constant, especially for children and mothers. Ethnographic research (Hawkes et al, 1997;Yellen, 1991) suggests that the most consistent sources of protein, and in some cases fat, for hunter-gatherer children in arid environments are the small animals and certain nuts that children either procure for themselves or are provided by female kin. The opportunities to obtain small animals are also considerably more diverse and widespread than are the opportunities to obtain large game, as are the personnel who may pursue them.…”

Explotación de myocastor coypus en el extremo meridional de la cuenca del plata durante el holoceno tardio

“…Amaya 1984, Bó y Porini 2001. Como pudimos ver los perfiles anatómicos de M. coypus permiten plantear que debieron de ingresar como presas enteras a las bases residenciales, conducta esperable debido al reducido peso que tiene dicha especie, ya que generalmente las presas de mediano y pequeño tamaño suelen ser transportadas enteras, tal como lo han registrado otros investigadores mediante estudios etnoarqueológicos realizados con distintos grupos de cazadores-recolectores (ver Jones 1983, Yellen 1991ay b, Oliver 1993.…”

“…Dentro de este mismo contexto, también hay que seña-lar la baja frecuencia de huellas de corte que, con excepción de las hemimadíbulas, registran la mayoría de sus partes esqueletarias. En este sentido, diferentes estudios han mencionado que las carcasas de las presas con un porte similar o incluso mayor al de M. coypus generalmente requieren, ya sea para ser asadas y/o hervidas, de un bajo nivel de trozamiento (Yellen 1991a, Jones 1983. Por lo tanto, es esperable que sus huesos tiendan a exhibir una baja cantidad de huellas de procesamiento.…”

Of Buffalo and Butchers: Coupling Traditional Procurement Studies with Taphonomic Analyses to Explore Intensive Wild Animal Processing Patterns at Two Early Iron Age Sites in the Kruger National Park

“…The smallest taxa commonly have the highest rates of completeness across the skeletal types. Their low numbers complicate interpretation, but they may simply have been less heavily or thoroughly exploited for their fats than the large species (e.g., Yellen 1991 ). Across all other mammals, the long bone shafts consistently display the lowest completeness scores within their size class categories.…”

“…The function of the cuts and scoops is relatively straightforward: these marks occurred while stripping meat from the bones and possibly (in the case of the cuts on elements such as phalanges and metapodials) from skinning (e.g., Yellen 1991 ). Some of the chop marks might have also been incurred during quick meat removal (e.g., Rixson 1989 ).…”