Abstract: Abstract The small Monte di Tuda cave is filled with a slightly disturbed, 2 m thick deposit. Very rich small vertebrate bone assemblages from barn owl pellets have been sampled extensively using special techniques to avoid contamination. Stratigraphical analysis and accelerator radiocarbon dating on the bones themselves both point to a rapid sedimentation rate during the last 2500 years, with a break in the building up of sediment between 1960 and 610 bp . Multivariate analyses of the frequencies of the small mammal species show that modern sp...
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Ecology
Archaeology