Diet breadth and mortality patterns from Laoya Cave： A primary profile of MIS 3/2 hunting strategies in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest China  

作　　者：WANG XiaoMin GUAN Ying CAI HuiYang Sandrine COSTAMAGNO ZHANG LiMin XU ChunHua GAO Xing 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China [2]University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China [3]TRACES, CNRS, Toulouse 31058, France [4]Guizhou Provincial Museum, Guiyang 550001, China

出　　处：《Science China Earth Sciences》2016年第8期1642-1651,共10页中国科学（地球科学英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41302015);the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2015CB953803)

摘　　要：Laoya Cave is a long-term occupation site of Late Paleolithic humans in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest China, where abundant lithic, bone materials were recovered. Dating by the AMS technique showed a significant depositional process during marine isotope stage(MIS) 3/2. In this study, the species spectrum was presented from the perspective of zooarchaeology and the mortality profile of large Cervidae was examined to help increase our understanding of the subsistence strategy of local people dealing with climate and environmental changes. The main part of the diet was focused on large Cervidae, and the dominance of Ungulates indicates effective management of the cave and local fauna. On the other hand, the mortality profiles of large Cervidae varied correspondingly with climate change. The evidence indicates a specialized hunting strategy that was also flexible, depending on the prevailing climate and environment.Laoya Cave is a long-term occupation site of Late Paleolithic humans in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest China, where abundant lithic, bone materials were recovered. Dating by the AMS technique showed a significant depositional process during marine isotope stage（MIS） 3/2. In this study, the species spectrum was presented from the perspective of zooarchaeology and the mortality profile of large Cervidae was examined to help increase our understanding of the subsistence strategy of local people dealing with climate and environmental changes. The main part of the diet was focused on large Cervidae, and the dominance of Ungulates indicates effective management of the cave and local fauna. On the other hand, the mortality profiles of large Cervidae varied correspondingly with climate change. The evidence indicates a specialized hunting strategy that was also flexible, depending on the prevailing climate and environment.

关 键 词：CERVIDAE Late Paleolithic Southwest China MIS 3 ZOOARCHAEOLOGY Survival strategy 

分 类 号：Q981[天文地球—古生物学与地层学] Q915[生物学—人类学]