• Journal title: WALENNAE: JURNAL ARKEOLOGI SULAWESI SELATAN DAN TENGGARA
• ISSN: 1411-0571 (print) 2580-121X (online)
• Publisher: Balai Arkeologi Sulawesi Selatan
• Country of publisher: indonesia
• Date added to EuroPub: 2019/Sep/29

• LCC Subject Category: Archaeology, Social Sciences, Sociology, History
• Publisher's keywords: Vertebrate fauna, karst area, environment, habitation
• Language of fulltext: indonesian
• Full-text formats available: PDF
• Time From Submission to Publication: 8

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This study aims to provide a description of the fauna that once interacted with human in the Bontocani karst Area in Bone District. Of the few excavated sites providing data availability of bone fragments that can be analyzed by conducting comparative studies with existing faunal composition of the fauna. The method of data collection is by excavation at some sites in this Karst Area. The results of this study document a wide range of vertebrates in the Balang Metti fauna including fish, frogs/toads, lizards, snakes, birds, Strigocuscus, Ailurops ursinus, insectivorous bats, Sulawesi monkeys, rats, Sulawesi pigs, babirusa and Anoa. In some layers of culture, the absence of anoa, indicates the environmental change from the environment of the fields and the weeds to the wet rain forest environment around the site, along with the extinction of this fauna. Based on the identified fauna bone analysis, it is illustrated that past habitats and environments in Bontocani Karst area have not changed much.