Hostname: page-component-669899f699-tzmfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-05-03T03:00:26.222Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Second Interim Report on the Animal Remains from Star Carr, Seamer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2025

F. C. Fraser  and
J. E. King
F. C. Fraser
Affiliation:
British Museum, Natural History
J. E. King
Affiliation:
British Museum, Natural History
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Before proceeding to an account of the specimens obtained at Star Carr, acknowledgments are due and gratefully made to those who have given us assistance during the course of the work. Dr A. T. Hopwood and Mr T. C. S. Morrison-Scott have made available specimens for comparison with those from the site and Dr K. P. Oakley has given much helpful advice. Miss Marjorie Platt of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, examined the bird bones and has provided identifications which are of the greatest importance for a proper understanding of the conditions existing at the time that the site was in occupation. We wish to acknowledge particularly the contribution of our colleague, Mr P. E. Purves, both for his work in the field in association with those engaged in the excavations and for his co-operation during the examination of the material which he brought back to the Museum.

The site has now yielded evidence of the presence of the following mammals: red deer, elk, roe deer, oxen, pig, hare, beaver, marten, a canid, fox, badger and hedgehog. Miss Platt's list of birds includes common crane, white stork, red-breasted merganser, redthroated diver, great crested grebe and little grebe or dabchick.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 16 , 1950 , pp. 124 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1950

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Clark, J. G. D. 1936. The Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Cunnington, M. E. 1929. Woodhenge. Devizes.Google Scholar
Darling, F. Fraser. 1937. A Herd of Red Deer. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Degerbøl, M. 1941. ‘Om Kannibalisme i Danmarks Stenalder.’ Dyr i Natur og Museum, pp. 25–43, figs. 1–17.Google Scholar
Degerbøl, M., Mathiassen, T. and Troels-Smith, J.. 1942. Dyrholmen, en Stenalderboplads paa Djursland. Copenhagen.Google Scholar
Malsburg, K.V.D. 1911. ‘Über neue Formen des kleinen diluvialen Urrindes: Bos (urus) minutus n. spec.’ Bulletin International de l'Acadamie des Sciences de Cracovie. Serie B, pp. 340–8.Google Scholar
Millais, J. G. 1906. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. III, London.Google Scholar
Reynolds, S. H. 1939. A Monograph on the British Pleistocene Mammalia, vol. III, part VI. London.Google Scholar
Wheeler, R. E. M. 1943. Maiden Castle, Dorset. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, No. XII. Oxford.Google Scholar