title: Investigation of equid paleodiet from Schöningen 13 II-4 through dental wear and isotopic analyses: Archaeological implications.
abstract: The paleodietary traits of the equid population from Schöningen 13 II-4 were investigated through tooth mesowear and microwear analyses, as well as stable isotopic analyses. The mesowear pattern observed on the upper teeth indicates a low abrasion diet with a significant amount of browse in the diet of the horses. The tooth microwear analysis and the isotopic data confirm that the horses from Schöningen 13 II-4 were mixed feeders, like many populations from other Pleistocene localities in Northern and Eastern Europe. Microwear also provides information on seasonal changes in the diet of the horses and offers the possibility to test hypotheses about the presence of one or several horse populations. Our analysis determined that the assemblage of horse remains from Schöningen 13 II-4 resulted from multiple accumulation events, which took place at different periods of time.
authors.affiliation: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), C. Marcel·lí Domingo s/n, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain; Area de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain. Electronic address: florent.rivals@icrea.cat.
authors.forename: Florent
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rivals
authors.affiliation: Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Rümelinstr. 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany; Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins, Archaeology Department, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Southampton SO17 1BF, UK; Unité Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme Préhistorique (UMR 7194), Sorbonne Universités, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, 1 rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Anne
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Julien
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Reuvensplaats 3-4, 2311 BE Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Margot
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuitems
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Reuvensplaats 3-4, 2311 BE Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Thijs
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Van Kolfschoten
authors.affiliation: Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Serangeli
authors.affiliation: Department of Geosciences, Biogeology, University of Tübingen, Hölderlinstr. 12, 72074, Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Dorothée G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Drucker
authors.affiliation: Department of Geosciences, Biogeology, University of Tübingen, Hölderlinstr. 12, 72074, Tübingen, Germany; Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology, Hölderlinstr. 12, 72074, Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Hervé
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bocherens
authors.affiliation: Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany; Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology, University of Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Nicholas J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Conard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002247:Carbon Isotopes / Q000032:analysis; D004032:Diet; D005858:Germany; D006736:Horses; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes / Q000032:analysis; D010163:Paleontology; D057085:Tooth Wear
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes
keywords: Fossil accumulation; Germany; Horse; Mesowear; Microwear; Middle Pleistocene; Stable isotope