Some doubtful conclusions appearing from the Gautier paper concerning mammal bones of the Stone Age forager site Dudka in the N.E. Poland is discussed. The choice of particularly an island for yearly, seasonal encampment is argued as economically profitable - for fishing and hazelnut gathering, but ungulates hunting carried on the mainland. Traces of keeping semi-domesticated pigs on the island are searching mainly in palaeobotanical data. The controversial method for distinguishing domesticated mammals from their wild relatives is discussed. Some individual bones (of bison, horse, dog, and pig) are re-examining, because their correct identifications are important for the history of these species in the Polish Plain - time of occurrences, status in hunter-gatherer society including eventual local domestication.
230 bird bones representing at least 36 taxa were found among the 129 300 remains accumulated in the fishing camp Dudka between the years BP 11,200 and 3,800. Most of the birds belonged to water-and-marsh species. Mergus albellus, Tadorna tadorna and cf. Nycticorax nycticorax are species new to the subfossil fauna of Poland. Most of the bird bones are dated to the Paraneolithic Zedmar culture and the Neolithic of the late Atlantic and the early Subboreal period (5,600 – 3,800 BP). Bones of the pectoral girdle made up 76% of the identified remains. The archaeological context indicates that the birds were hunted by people inhabiting the island; most of the species belong to game. The absence of Lagopus remains is noteworthy. Ten bones were recovered from graves and two were found as polished beads, this indicating that birds were used not only for food.
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