Avifaunal Remains from Crvena Stijena (Petrovići, Montenegro, Eastern Europe)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Late Middle Paleolithic in the Western Balkans: Results from Recent Excavations at Crvena Stijena, Montenegro" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Avian remains from the Paleolithic site of Crvena Stijena, located near the village Petrovići, Eastern Montenegro, have been studied. The inspected material comes from the samples collected in the field during the previous three years of research (2018, 2019, and 2021). Based on the previous faunal research, Crvena Stijena fauna apparently lived in a colder, drier climate than the recent one in this area. Recently, the development of taphonomically oriented studies of avifaunal assemblages has contributed to renewing our perceptions of the complexity of Neanderthal behavioral adaptations in Europe. In light of the limited number of such taphonomic studies of bird samples, in this work, we provide new data from this site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Late Middle Paleolithic in the Western Balkans: Results from Recent Excavations at Crvena Stijena, Montenegro   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37112.0