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Site function and the ‘ibex‐site phenomenon’: myth or reality?
Author(s) -
PhocaCosmetatou Nellie
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2004.t01-1-00210.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , geography , archaeology , settlement (finance) , mythology , resource (disambiguation) , history , world wide web , computer network , computer science , payment , classics
Summary. This paper focuses on ibex hunting in Italy during the Upper Palaeolithic. The faunal assemblages from five ibex‐dominated sites (Dalmeri, Arene Candide, Fumane, Villabruna and Soman) are examined with the aim of assessing the role of the sites and people's activities in the wider settlement system. These sites will be placed in their wider context of the Italian Upper Palaeolithic so as to explore the nature of variability in ibex exploitation. The importance of these considerations is to examine aspects of specialized hunting, increased intensity of resource exploitation during the end of the Upper Palaeolithic, and methodological considerations of the relationship between faunal remains and the human activities that produced them.