Fig 1.
Lateral views of unburnt (right) and calcined (left) radio-ulna of adult dwarf hippos from Akrotiri-Aetokremnos.
Both specimens belong to the species Phanourios minor (Desmarest, 1822) [Boekschoten and Sondaar, 1972] and come from stratum 4, Feature 3, FN684. The right specimen is unburned while the left specimen is calcined and shows the blue-green color. Note the smaller size of the calcined specimen (15% and 20–27% smaller for length and width, respectively) compared to the unburnt one. This difference in size mostly likely results from bone retraction due to calcination.
Table 1.
IRSF values (FTIR), carbon isotope values and radiocarbon dates of the calcined bones and charcoal used in the Bayesian models.
Fig 2.
Optical view and distribution of manganese content over AA48 cross section.
a) Optical view of the cross section of a long bone diaphyse (AA48); b) localization of elemental composition map; c) Distribution of manganese content over AA48 cross section. Manganese is mainly localized in the first 300 μm of the surface of the cortical bone.
Table 2.
Probability distribution (at two sigmas) for the start and end boundaries of stratum 2 and 4 and for the duration of the three strata in Models 1 and 2.