Research on faunal remains at Geduijing site, Muping, Shandong Province

Author(s): Yanbo Song; Zebing Wang

Year: 2017

Summary

Animal remains excavated from Geduiding can be divided into two stages: (1) the earlier (5925-5880BP) and (2) later (5880-5530BP) periods of the Early Dawenkou Culture. In both stages, identified animals include: mollusk, fish, amphibian, bird, deer, dog, pig, raccoon dog, rabbit and rodent. Crab and sand badger are also found in the later period. The identified fauna indicate that the environment around the site did not change much in the few hundred years between the early and later periods. According to the quantity of animal remains, the use of aquatic animals, especially marine molluscs, increased in the later period. This indicates that ancient peoples’ abilities of cognition and exploitation of marine resources increased as time went by. Most of the excavated pigs from the site are domestic pigs; and wild boars are also present. In the view of the total mammals composition, pigs take up more than 50% (NISP and MNI) in both earlier and later periods. This shows that ancient people fed domestic pigs in order to obtain a stable meat source. They also hunted wild mammals, especially deer, and caught aquatic animals as important supplementary sources of meat.

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Research on faunal remains at Geduijing site, Muping, Shandong Province. Yanbo Song, Zebing Wang. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 432040)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: 66.885; min lat: -8.928 ; max long: 147.568; max lat: 54.059 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 15742