S1E



S1E

Room 1.44

Cave taphonomy: Beyond human subsistence strategies / Taphonomie des grottes : au-delà des stratégies de subsistance humaines

Session organizers: Mario Mata-González, Maria Boada, Javier Villalobos, Clara Mielgo, Alicia Sanz-Royo

S1E, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 15:30, Room 1.44

9:00-9:20 - Carnivore remains at Sima del Elefante site (Atapuerca): Insights into accumulation processes in cave environments / Maria Boada, Abel Moclán, Rosa Huguet

9:20-9:40 - Faunal refits and site formation processes: A plea for reproducible methods and structured open data publication / Sébastien Plutniak, Maria Joana Gabucio Vilarrasa, Marine Gardeur

9:40-10:00 - Taphonomic insights on Alpine ibex Palaeoethology: Study of three cave-sites from southeastern France and Monaco / Angela Noseda, Abdelkader Moussous, Olivier Notter, Elena Rossoni-Notter, Jean-Philip Brugal, Evelyne Crégut-Bonnoure, Agnès Testu, Caroline Insogna, Jeanne-Marie Le Pape, Marjan Mashkour, Camille Daujeard

10:00-10:20 - Neanderthal occupation duration in cave contexts: A multi-proxy analysis of faunal assemblages / Valentina Lubrano, Vincenzo Spagnolo, Anna Rufà, Ruth Blasco, Florent Rivals, Jordi Rosell

10:20-10:40 - A cave as an archive: Multi-agent bone accumulation and modification at Bison Cave (Arcy-Sur-Cure, France) / Juliette Laporte, Pierre Magniez, Maurice Hardy

10:40-11:00 - The History of Bone Accumulation in the Main Chamber of the Ciemna Cave in Ojców, Southern Poland / Katarzyna Zarzecka-Szubińska, Adrian Marciszak, Grzegorz Lipecki, Paweł Valde-Nowak, Piotr Wojtal, Tomasz Łojewski, Damian Stefański, Weronika Cieszyńska, Ondřej Šedo, Zuzana Hofmanová, Magda Kowal

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Unraveling cave bear (Ursus ingressus). Palaeoecology through dental evidence: A multi-method study from Ciemna Cave (southern Poland) /  Nina Kowalik, Sylwia Pospuła, Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Florent Rivals, Anna Lemnik, Oliwia Oszczepalińska, Katarzyna Zarzecka-Szubińska, Damian Stefański, Paweł Valde-Novak

11:50-12:10 - Last Meal and Season of Death of the Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus) from Nietoperzowa Cave (Poland) and Szeleta Cave (Hungary) / Sylwia Pospuła, Nina Kowalik, Oliwia Oszczepalińska, György Lengyel, Jarosław Wilczyński

12:10-12:30 - From the Paleogene to the Quaternary – Fauna of Wielkowiejska Cave (Southern Poland) / Katarzyna Zarzecka-Szubińska, Paweł Valde-Nowak, Justyna Zakrzeńska, Anna Kraszewska, Mirosław Zając, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Adrian Marciszak, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Karol Karbowski, Przemysław Czernek

12:30-12:50 - Taphonomy, depositional history, and human presence at Bisericuța – a high-altitude Palaeolithic cave site in the Romanian Carpathians /  Laura Tîrlă, Alexandru Petculescu, Ionuț Mirea, Marius Robu, Daniel Veres, Marian Cosac, Marius Kenesz, Luchiana Faur, Răzvan Arghir, Altug Hasözbek, Silviu Constantin

12:50-13:10 - Down the sinkhole: Early Holocene bone accumulations at Latnija Cave (Malta) / Mario Mata-González, Mathew Stewart, James A. Blinkhorn, Alexander F. Blackwood, Huw S. Groucutt, Nicholas C. Vella, Eleanor M. L. Scerri

13:10-13:30 - A taphonomic assessment of bat and rodent remains from Callao Cave, Peñablanca, Cagayan, Philippines (ca. 134,000 BP to ca. 3,600 cal. BP) / Patricia S. Cabrera, Juan C. Rofes, Armand Salvador B. Mijares

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Tracing the anomaly technological rising from the cave taphonomy: case study at Gua Arca, Kangean, East Java, Indonesia / Alifah, Taufiqurahman Setiawan, Anton Ferdianto, Moh. Mu'alliful Ilmi

14:50-15:10 - The Materiality of Exotic Marine Shells in a Javanese Karst Landscape: Tracing the Modification and Utilization Practices at Gua Aul, Indonesia / Oka Agus Kurniawan Shavab

15:10-15:30 - Discussion