Bovid mortality profiles in paleoecological context falsify hypotheses of endurance running–hunting and passive scavenging by early Pleistocene hominins     

Henry T. Bunn  Travis Rayne Pickering   《Quaternary Research》2010,74(3):395-404

The world’s first archaeological traces from 2.6 million years ago (Ma) at Gona, in Ethiopia, include sharp-edged cutting tools and cut-marked animal bones, which indicate consumption of skeletal muscle by early hominin butchers. From that point, evidence of hominin meat-eating becomes increasingly more common throughout the Pleistocene archaeological record. Thus, the substantive debate about hominin meat-eating now centers on mode(s) of carcass resource acquisition. Two prominent hypotheses suggest, alternatively, (1) that early Homo hunted ungulate prey by running them to physiological failure and then dispatching them, or (2) that early Homo was relegated to passively scavenging carcass residues abandoned by carnivore predators. Various paleontologically testable predictions can be formulated for both hypotheses. Here we test four predictions concerning age-frequency distributions for bovids that contributed carcass remains to the 1.8 Ma. old FLK 22 Zinjanthropus (FLK Zinj, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) fauna, which zooarchaeological and taphonomic data indicate was formed predominantly by early Homo. In all but one case, the bovid mortality data from FLK Zinj violate test predictions of the endurance running-hunting and passive scavenging hypotheses. When combined with other taphonomic data, these results falsify both hypotheses, and lead to the hypothesis that early Homo operated successfully as an ambush predator.  相似文献   

Size‐frequency distributions of Joania cordata and Argyrotheca cuneata (Brachiopoda: Megathyrididae) from the Central Tyrrhenian Sea     

Francesca Evangelisti  Paolo G. Albano  Bruno Sabelli 《Marine Ecology》2014,35(3):377-386

Size‐frequency distributions can support reliable inferences concerning population dynamics of brachiopods, but only a few data are available so far. In this study, length and width frequency distributions of dead specimens of the Recent brachiopods Joania cordata and Argyrotheca cuneata from the Marine Protected Area ‘Secche di Tor Paterno’, Central Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy (41°35′ N, 12°20′ E), are reported in order to add new data about size‐frequency distributions of brachiopods. The studied specimens came from death assemblages in the coralligenous substrate, in the Posidonia oceanica meadows, and in the sand channels. The observed patterns vary from left‐skewed (J. cordata) to right‐skewed (A. cuneata), indicating respectively a low and high mortality of smaller individuals. Significant differences between the coralligenous substrate and the P. oceanica meadow were observed for both species, revealing a variation among different habitats. All length and width distributions are clearly polymodal, but the biological meaning of the peaks is difficult to interpret, as the two species seem to have a 2‐year life span. A biometric analysis of shell sizes revealed that length and width are the most variable parameters during the growth of the animal.  相似文献   

Characteristics of high arsenic groundwater in Hetao Basin, Inner Mongolia, northern China   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

YangChun Zhu  XueYong Zhao  Min Chen  YongQing Luo  Xin Zhou 《寒旱区科学》2015,7(1):0104-0110

It is well known that the Hetao Basin is one of the most seriously arsenic-affected groundwater areas in China. In order to understand the characteristics of high arsenic(As) groundwater in the Basin, a brief overview of arsenic in groundwater follows. High arsenic in the Basin commonly occurs in shallow groundwater and the total arsenic concentrations range from 0.58 to 572 μg/L(average 99.73 μg/L), exceeding the maximum mandated value of 10 μg/L for drinking water in China; As(Ш) is the predominant species. The regional distribution pattern of arsenic in the groundwater increases from south/southeast to north/northwest. Hangjinhouqi and Wuyuan counties are considered as the most seriously affected areas, with high incidences of endemic arsenicosic diseases in the Hetao Basin. High groundwater arsenic correlates with the increase of well depth. Previous studies proposed that groundwater arsenic in the Basin is mainly originated from desorption of some natural solid materials in the sediments, under reducing condition. Generally, reducing condition is believed to be the primary factor for arsenic releasing from the sediment to groundwater in the region. Under inorganic or bacterial processes, Fe2O3 changes to Fe S and arsenic adsorbed to Fe(OH)3 dissolves into groundwater, and As(V) is reduced to As(Ш). Besides, reducing environments, groundwater hydraulic gradients, organic matter, p H, evapotranspiration, and soil texture are presumed to be the predominant factors that control arsenic mobilization.  相似文献   

苏沪浙地区短时强降水与冰雹天气分布及物理量特征对比分析   总被引：9，自引：1，他引：8  

仇娟娟  何立富 《气象》2013,39(5):577-584

利用1971-2006年气象记录月报表A文件资料及1999-2009年自计、自动站降水资料对苏浙沪地区短时强降水与冰雹天气时空分布特征进行统计分析基础上,对华北冷涡背景条件下区域性冰雹与3小时降水量大于100 mm的极端降水过程环境场条件差异进行了对比.归纳了两种强对流天气的物理量阈值.结果表明:冰雹年发生频率先递减后略增,30～50mm·h-1降水天气日数缓慢增加,高发区均位于江苏省北部.强降水较冰雹天气华北冷涡浅薄位置偏南,冷空气强度较弱,伴随低空急流,深厚湿对流明显;冰雹天气时高空急流强盛且偏南,上千下湿呈干对流风暴特征,两者均由低层不连续线触发.统计表明,0℃层高度、△T850-500、K指数、可降水量和高空风切变等参数冰雹与强降水天气分别平均相差-1700m、7℃、8℃、-37 mm和1.63×10-3s-1,这些物理量用来区分对流天气类型较好.  相似文献   

近40年来塔什干低涡活动特征的统计分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

秦贺  杨莲梅  张云惠 《高原气象》2013,32(4)

利用1971-2010年NCEP/NCAR逐日再分析资料,根据塔什干低涡定义,分析了塔什干低涡的时空分布特征、移动路径及其对南疆天气的影响.结果表明:(1)1971-2010年,塔什干低涡过程平均每年出现7.95次,成熟期生命史平均为3.1天,4天以上的仅有13.5％; (2)4-6月和9-10月是塔什干低涡活动的两个高峰期,其中5月出现次数最多,其次是10月和6月;(3)塔什干低涡频次的年代际变化呈抛物线型,1970-1980年代由78次增加到83次,之后逐渐减少,年低涡频次存在7年左右的显著振荡周期,同时具有1 3年的次振荡周期;(4)塔什干低涡活动有两个高频中心,分别位于67.5°E,40.0°N和72.5°E,35.0°N,移动路径以偏东方向为主,占84％,西退塔什干低涡仅有5.7％;造成南疆显著降水天气的塔什干低涡占其总数的23.3％,夏季此类低涡所占比例最高,达41.2％.  相似文献   

星系的恒星速度弥散度的归算方法     

傅承启  侯金良 《天文学进展》2006,24(3):244-259

星系的恒星视向速度分布是星系动力学模型的重要观测约束,其特征参数包括速度弥散度、分布轮廓以及红移。这些参数对研究星系的动力学、结构和演化以及中央黑洞的质量等都具有重要的价值。该文全面总结了从星系光谱归算星系的恒星视向速度分布及其弥散度的各种方法,以及对观测和处理的一些要求。这些方法都假设星系谱线可看作是模板星光谱经多普勒位移并加宽后的线性叠加。提取尽可能多的星系内部恒星运动信息、减少模板星失配的影响、简化误差分析,是这些方法追求的目标。  相似文献   

    

Scott Painter 《Mathematical Geology》1995,27(7):813-830

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Comparison of two techniques for applying disjunctive kriging: The Gaussian anamorphosis model versus the direct statistical inference of the bivariate distributions     

James R. Carr  Eddy D. Deng 《Mathematical Geology》1987,19(1):57-68

Indicator cokriging is an alternative to disjunctive kriging for estimation of spatial distributions. One way to determine which of these techniques is more accurate for estimation of spatial distributions is to apply each to a particular type of data. A procedure is developed for evaluation of disjunctive kriging and indicator cokriging for such an application. Application of this procedure to earthquake ground motion data found disjunctive kriging to be at least as accurate as indicator cokriging for estimation of spatial distributions of peak horizontal acceleration. Indicator cokriging was superior for all other types of earthquake ground motion data.  相似文献   

A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF MISSING SPATIAL DATA USING A FIRST-ORDER MARKOV MODEL*     

Robert Haining  Daniel A. Griffith  Robert Bennett 《The Professional geographer》1984,36(3):338-345

Geographical data sets sometimes contain missing observations that need to be estimated. A statistical approach to the problem is discussed for multivariate normal spatial data sets satisfying the first-order spatial Markov property with constant mean, where the information at neighboring or contiguous observed sites is used to estimate the missing values. The completed data are used to estimate the parameters of the distribution. The procedure is iterative. The approach is a special case of the Orchard and Woodbury missing information principle. The paper concludes with an illustrative empirical example using rainfall data from an area of Kansas and Nebraska. The quality of the estimates for different sites are compared.  相似文献   

Vertical distribution of trace elements in the surface waters offshore Nova Scotia     

Marc Stoffyn 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1984,18(4):433-445

Concentrations of the trace elements Fe, Al, Mn, Cu, Cd, Zn and Ni were measured in shallow vertical profiles (maximum depth 500 m) off the Scotian Shelf in the western North Atlantic. The distributions of the trace elements show variations with depth, the most consistent of which are for Fe and Zn. A minimum concentration near the surface followed by an increase with depth is attributed to in situ mechanisms.  相似文献