Bird remains from the Middle Paleolithic levels (MIS 3) of Llonin Cave (Peñamellera Alta, Asturias, Spain)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Núñez-Lahuerta, Carmen, Sauqué, Víctor, Sanchis, Alfred, Duarte, Elsa, Rasilla, Marco de la (2021): Bird remains from the Middle Paleolithic levels (MIS 3) of Llonin Cave (Peñamellera Alta, Asturias, Spain). Comptes Rendus Palevol 20 (30): 627-640, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a30, URL: doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a30 ABSTRACT Birds are abundant in fossil assemblages of Quaternary sites; they can be used in landscape reconstruction as they are well adapted to the environment.

Here we present the analysis of the avian assemblage from the Middle Paleolithic levels of the Llonin Cave, where 558 bird remains have been recovered from levels G-VI and CP-VIII, belonging to at least ten different taxa: Aves indet., Galliformes indet., Lagopus lagopus Linnaeus, 1758, Tetrastes bonasia Linnaeus, 1758, Columba livia / oenas Gmelin, 1789 /Linnaeus, 1758, Passeriformes indet., Alaudidae indet., Motacilla sp., Turdus sp., Corvidae indet., Garrulus glandarius Linnaeus, 1758, Pyrrhocorax sp., Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax Linnaeus, 1758, Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus, 1766 and Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758.