TY - JOUR
T1 - Fish and ancient lakes in the dead sea rift
T2 - The use of fish remains to reconstruct the ichthyofauna of paleo-lake hula
AU - Zohar, Irit
AU - Goren, Menachem
AU - Goren-Inbar, Naama
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was carried out with the support of an ongoing grant awarded by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 300/06 ) to the Center of Excellence Project Title: “The Effect of Climate Change on the Environment and Hominins of the Upper Jordan Valley between ca. 800 ka and 700 ka ago as a Basis for Prediction of Future Scenarios”. The Irene Levi Sala Care Archaeological Foundation and Lady Davis Fellowship generously supported this project.
PY - 2014/7/1
Y1 - 2014/7/1
N2 - In this study we use fish remains recovered at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, dated to 0.78. Ma, to reconstruct for the first time the fish community of paleo-Lake Hula. From Area A at the site, we identified 13 species belonging to three of the five recent native families of freshwater fish: Cyprinidae (carps), Cichlidae (Tilapinii, St. Peter fish), and Clariidae (catfish). The identified taxa included species endemic to Lake Hula, Tristramella simonis intermedia (Cichlidae) and Mirogrex hulensis (Cyprinidae), demonstrating continuity in the fish community for the last 0.8. million years. In addition, some of the species-specific bones exhibited different morphotypes that raise the possibility of the past existence of other endemic species of cyprinids and catfish in the lake, including the large molluskivores Luciobarbus sp. (formerly Barbus). The paleoenvironmental implications of the identified ichthyofauna for the complexity of the aquatic habitat of paleo-Lake Hula are discussed.
AB - In this study we use fish remains recovered at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, dated to 0.78. Ma, to reconstruct for the first time the fish community of paleo-Lake Hula. From Area A at the site, we identified 13 species belonging to three of the five recent native families of freshwater fish: Cyprinidae (carps), Cichlidae (Tilapinii, St. Peter fish), and Clariidae (catfish). The identified taxa included species endemic to Lake Hula, Tristramella simonis intermedia (Cichlidae) and Mirogrex hulensis (Cyprinidae), demonstrating continuity in the fish community for the last 0.8. million years. In addition, some of the species-specific bones exhibited different morphotypes that raise the possibility of the past existence of other endemic species of cyprinids and catfish in the lake, including the large molluskivores Luciobarbus sp. (formerly Barbus). The paleoenvironmental implications of the identified ichthyofauna for the complexity of the aquatic habitat of paleo-Lake Hula are discussed.
KW - Cichlidae
KW - Cyprinidae
KW - Luciobarbus
KW - Middle Pleistocene
KW - Pharyngeal bone
KW - Taphonomy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899829871&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.006
DO - 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.006
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AN - SCOPUS:84899829871
SN - 0031-0182
VL - 405
SP - 28
EP - 41
JO - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
JF - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ER -