Carnivore activity at Klasies River Mouth: a response to Binford

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dc.contributor.authorThackeray, J Francis
dc.date1990
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-05T14:03:36Z
dc.date.available2015-01-05T14:03:36Z
dc.date.issued1990
dc.description.abstractEnvironmental and behavioural factors contributed to variability in the relative abundance of Raphicerus (grysbok/steenbok) represented in Late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits at the complex of caves at Klasies River Mouth and at Nelson Bay Cave in the southern Cape Province, South Africa. Binford has used the relative abundance of Raphicerus in an index assumed to measure the degree of hunting by Middle Stone Age hominids. However, the occurrence of relatively high numbers of Raphicerus with leopards and baboons in some layers is likely to have been associated, at least in part, with leopard activity, particularly at times when relatively large ungulates were not common in the palaeoenvironment and when the cave sites were not frequently occupied by hominids with control over fire. Binford's indices are re-assessed in the light of other indices which are designed to identify assemblages that have a relatively high probability of having been accumulated by leopards and/or other carnivores.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0078-8554
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/16156
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherBernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Researchen_ZA
dc.subjectRaphicerusen_ZA
dc.subjectPleistoceneen_ZA
dc.subjectHoloceneen_ZA
dc.subjecttaphonomyen_ZA
dc.subjecthominiden_ZA
dc.titleCarnivore activity at Klasies River Mouth: a response to Binforden_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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