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APPENDIX 4 in Tracing the footprints of the Atlas Brown Bear: a metric analysis of Holocene and Late Pleistocene remains from Northern Morocco
Authors/Creators
- 1. Instituto Universitario de Xeoloxía (IUX), Universidade da Coruña, Edificio de Servicios Centrales de Investigación (ESCI), Campus de Elviña s / n, 15071 A Coruña (Spain) & National Institute of Archaeological Sciences and Heritage (INSAP), Madinat Al Irfane, Hay Riad, BP 6828 Rabat Institutes (Morocco)
- 2. Instituto Universitario de Xeoloxía (IUX), Universidade da Coruña, Edificio de Servicios Centrales de Investigación (ESCI), Campus de Elviña s / n, 15071 A Coruña (Spain) & Archaeoscience Platform (AsP), Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), University of Bucharest, 90 - 92 Sos. Panduri, 5 th District, 50663 Bucharest (Romania)
- 3. Instituto Universitario de Xeoloxía (IUX), Universidade da Coruña, Edificio de Servicios Centrales de Investigación (ESCI), Campus de Elviña s / n, 15071 A Coruña (Spain)
- 4. National Institute of Archaeological Sciences and Heritage (INSAP), Madinat Al Irfane, Hay Riad, BP 6828 Rabat Institutes (Morocco) & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig (Germany)
Description
APPENDIX 4. — Main measurements (in mm) of brown bear phalanges from the sites of Keft-el-Hammar (KEH) and Hattab II (HAT II). Abbreviations: APW prox, proximal anteroposterior width; H prox, proximal height; n/n, no number; TL, total length; TW dia, transversal width of diaphysis; TW dist, distal transversal width; TW prox, proximal transversal width. The asterisk (*) indicates elements that were published previously (Ouchaou 2000).
| First phalanx | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Level | Number | TL | TW prox | APW prox | TW dia | TW dist | Source |
| HAT II | 7 | 558 | 30.7 | 16.3 | 15.6 | 11.4 | 12.2 | 1 |
| HAT II | 3 | 115 | 33.8 | 17.8 | 14.8 | 11.1 | 13.0 | 1 |
| HAT II | 3 | 245 | 34.1 | 18.3 | 13.8 | 10.6 | 13.3 | 1 |
| HAT II | 6 | 557 | 34.7 | 18.3 | 13.3 | 10.8 | 11.8 | 1 |
| HAT II | 6 | 360 | 37.2 | 17.5 | 14.8 | 11.8 | 13.8 | 1 |
| HAT II | 6 | 372 | 38.7 | 18.3 | 14.5 | 12.0 | 13.7 | 1 |
| HAT II | 3 | 259 | 38.8 | 17.6 | 15.4 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 1 |
| KEH | 1 | 9 | 37.3 | 16.4 | 15.0 | 9.5 | 14.1 | 2 |
| KEH | 1 | F7/27 | 37.6 | 21.5 | 12.3 | 10.5 | 12.3 | 2 |
| KEH | 1 | HST8 | 37.8 | 21.0 | 16.3 | 13.2 | 13.4 | 2 |
| KEH | 1 | I9/4 | 38.0 | 17.0 | 16.4 | 17.3 | 14.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 1 | J29 | 46.0 | 18.5 | 15.0 | 11.5 | 14.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | 27/A | 32.0 | 18.0 | 12.0 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | 89 | 32.0 | 17.0 | 12.0 | 11.0 | 14.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | 58 | 34.0 | 17.0 | 14.0 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 36.0 | 17.0 | 16.0 | 12.0 | 14.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 36.0 | 18.0 | 15.0 | 12.0 | 14.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 37.2 | 17. 8 | – | 12.3 | 13.4 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 38.0 | 17.0 | 15.0 | 12.0 | 14.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 41.4 | 17.2 | 13.0 | 12.0 | 12.3 | 2 |
| KEH | 4 | – | 36.9 | 17.5 | 14.8 | 11.4 | 13.8 | 3 |
| KTG | C | – | 35.0 | 17.0 | 12.5 | 9.8 | 12.8 | 3 |
| KTG | D | – | 34.0 | 17.0 | 13.4 | 10.3 | 12.4 | 3 |
| KTG | F | – | 35.0 | 17.0 | 13.0 | 9.5 | 12.5 | 3 |
| KTG | F | – | 37.0 | 18.3 | 14.9 | 11.2 | 13.3 | 3 |
| KTG | F | – | 40.0 | 20.0 | 15.8 | 13.0 | 14.9 | 3 |
| KTG | G | – | 39.0 | 20.0 | 14.0 | 12.0 | – | 3 |
| KBS | 3c | – | 37.8 | 20.5 | 15.5 | 12.0 | 13.5 | 3 |
| GKH | IIIb | – | 40.0 | 20.0 | 16.0 | 13.5 | 13.9 | 3 |
| KEB | salle | – | 43.0 | 21.0 | 17.4 | 14.6 | 15.7 | 3 |
| IOS | – | 05/21 | 51.0 | 23.0 | – | 13.2 | – | 4 |
| IOS | – | 05/36 | 43.0 | 16.9 | 14.5 | 9.2 | – | 4 |
| IOS | – | 05/37 | – | 19.4 | 14.5 | 11.3 | – | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I6/21 | 43.0 | 23.9 | 18.3 | 14.9 | 16.4 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I8/2 | 38.0 | 17.5 | 14.4 | 11.4 | 13.9 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I10/8 | 46.0 | 17.6 | 15.0 | 9.6 | 14.0 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I10/19 | 36.3 | 17.2 | 15.0 | 11.5 | 13.8 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I10/20 | 37.5 | 19.1 | 15.0 | 11.9 | 14.0 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I10/28 | 31.0 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 9.3 | 12.1 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I10/29 | 33.0 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 9.3 | 12.1 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/17 | 31.0 | 15.9 | 13.3 | 9.4 | 12.2 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/18 | 31.5 | 15.8 | 13.5 | 9.9 | 12.1 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/21 | 33.5 | 18.2 | 14.4 | 10.4 | 12.0 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/24 | 31.0 | 16.0 | 13.3 | 10.1 | 12.2 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/25 | 33.4 | 17.3 | 14.1 | 10.4 | 12.8 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/27 | 33.3 | 18.2 | 14.3 | 10.5 | 12.2 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/29 | 34.0 | 17.3 | 14.4 | 10.9 | 12.9 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/J4/1 | 39.2 | 24.0 | 17.7 | 13.4 | 15.2 | 4 |
| Second phalanx | ||||||||
| Site | Level | Number | TL | TW prox | APW prox | TW dia | TW dist | Source |
| HAT II | 6 | 430 | 21.8 | 14.4 | 13.3 | 11.2 | 12.3 | 1 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 27.0 | 16.0 | 15.0 | 11.0 | 14.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 27.0 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 14.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 29.0 | 17.0 | 16.2 | 14.0 | 15.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 30.0 | 19.5 | 15.3 | 13.0 | 14.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 30.0 | 18.0 | 17.0 | 13.8 | 16.0 | 2 |
| KEH | 4 | 283 | 27.5 | 17.0 | 15.3 | 13.0 | 14.1 | 2 |
| KTG | E | – | 28.8 | 15.9 | 13.4 | 11.1 | 14.0 | 3 |
| KTG | F | – | 26.2 | – | – | 10.5 | 13.0 | 3 |
| KTG | F | – | 27.5 | 15.7 | 13.1 | 10.2 | 14.1 | 3 |
| KTG | F | – | 22.6 | 17.3 | 13.9 | 12.3 | 14.9 | 3 |
| GKH | V | – | 19.9 | 16.0 | 12.9 | 11.1 | 13.0 | 3 |
| IOS | – | 05/9 | 28.8 | 15.9 | 13.4 | 11.1 | 14.0 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 05/38 | 26.2 | – | – | 10.5 | 13.0 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I10/6 | 27.5 | 15.7 | 13.1 | 10.2 | 14.1 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I5/2 | 22.6 | 17.3 | 13.9 | 12.3 | 14.9 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I6/17 | 19.9 | 16.0 | 12.9 | 11.1 | 13.0 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I10/21 | 20.0 | 14.9 | 11.2 | 9.8 | 12.9 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I10/31 | 18.9 | 14.1 | 12.1 | 10.7 | 12.1 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/10 | 19.4 | 14.2 | 11.5 | 9.8 | 12.2 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/16 | 18.5 | 14.1 | 12.1 | 10.5 | 12.3 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/I11/20 | 17.9 | 14.9 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 12.3 | 4 |
| IOS | – | 06/J4/10 | 21.5 | 18.3 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 15.8 | 4 |
| Third phalanx | ||||||||
| Site | Level | Number | TL | H prox | TW prox | Source | ||
| HAT II | 6 | 1041 | 44.5 | 23.8 | 14.1 | 1 | ||
| HAT II | 6 | 674 | 35.7 | 25.0 | 13.9 | 1 | ||
| HAT II | 6 | 879 | 31.0 | 26.0 | 11.3 | 1 | ||
| KEH | surface | n/n | – | – | 11.0 | 2 | ||
| KEH | surface | HST7 | – | 26.0 | 13.0 | 2 | ||
| KEH | 1 | 1 | 30.0 | 21.0 | 11.2 | 2 | ||
| KEH | 2 | 52 | 46.0 | 23.0 | 14.0 | 2 | ||
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 36.4 | 26.0 | 15.5 | 2 | ||
| KEH | 2 | n/n | 30.0 | 21.0 | 11.0 | 2 | ||
| KEH | 3 | n/n | 30.0 | 26.0 | 11.0 | 2 | ||
| KEH | 3 | n/n | 41.0 | 24.0 | 14.0 | 2 | ||
| KEH | 3 | n/n | 49.0 | – | 13.7 | 3 | ||
| KEH | 4 | n/n | 56.3 | 28.0 | 15.5 | 3 | ||
| KEH | 7 | n/n | – | 24.0 | 12.3 | 2 | ||
| KTG | D | – | 50.5 | 33.0 | 16.7 | 3 | ||
| KTG | E | – | 56.0 | 30.0 | 14.5 | 3 | ||
| KTG | F | – | 54.0 | 28.5 | 14.4 | 3 | ||
| KTG | F | – | 50.0 | 29.0 | 14.2 | 3 | ||
| KTG | F | – | 51.0 | 29.8 | 15.0 | 3 | ||
| KTG | F | – | 45.0 | – | 14.0 | 3 | ||
| KBS | 3c | – | 50.5 | 26.0 | 14.7 | 3 | ||
| KEB | salle | – | 36.0 | 26.0 | 15.0 | 3 | ||
| IOS | – | 05/13 | 45.0 | 27.5 | 14.0 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/I10/9 | 50.0 | 28.2 | 15.0 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/I10/11 | 33.0 | 23.0 | 12.2 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/I10/30 | 28.0 | 22.0 | 12.4 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/I10/32 | 31.4 | 23.2 | 12.2 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/I11/9 | 33.1 | 23.4 | 12.7 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/I11/15 | 30.0 | 21.0 | 13.0 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/I12/1 | 32.2 | 23.0 | 14.2 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/I13/5 | 34.0 | 21.5 | 14.2 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/I10/10 | 32.0 | 25.0 | 14.2 | 4 | ||
| IOS | – | 06/J5/6 | 31.8 | 23.7 | 13.4 | 4 |
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