Dear Emanuelle,
I can give you some information about the faunal assemblage of the Early
Bronze Age site (EB II / III, 2700 - 2300 BC) of Hirbet ez-Zeraqon in
Jordan:
Among an overall amount of 13 718 fragments, of which 9664 could be
identified to species, genus or at least family level, were only 151 of
wild animals. The wild species recorded are Hemiechinus auritus, Spalax
leucodon, Lepus capensis, Vulpes vulpes, Martes foina, Mustela nivalis,
Meles meles, Felis sylvestris, Hyaena hyaena, Equus africanus, Sus
scrofa, Dama mesopotamica, Gazella spec. and Testudinae spec. No brown
bear or hippopotamus though.
The reference is
DECHERT, BIRGIT (1996): Die Tierknochenfunde aus Hirbet ez- Zeraqon,
unpublished thesis, Institut für Urgeschichte - Archäozoologie,
Universität Tübingen
If you need further details or a copy of the thesis, send me a note.
Yours
Christian
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Emmanuelle Vila schrieb:
>Dear all,
>I am working on an Early Bronze Age Site in Lebanon (2800 BC). I am
>surprised by the amount an Wild Animals in the bone material: fallow deer,
>wild boar, aurochs, hippopotamus, bear, turtle, fish. I would like to know
>if there are other seatlements from this period (in Lebanon, Jordan,
Israel,
>Syria) with a similar fauna material, and also, if someone has got some
>measurements from brown bear from the Near East. I would like also to have
>records on hippopotamus in archaeological seatlement and measurements of
>hippopotamus.
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>Thanks for your help
>
>Emmanuelle
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>Emmanuelle Vila
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