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A tale of foxes and deer, or how people changed their eating habits during the Mesolithic at Vlakno cave (Croatia)

During the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, the eastern Adriatic was an area of dynamic climatic and environmental changes, both of which influenced human subsistence strategies. This paper presents the case study of Vlakno cave, which is located in the interior of Dugi Otok (Long Island), in the region of Dalmatia, on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. Recent archaeological research of this multi- layer cave site has revealed an abundance of faunal remains, showing that the cave was in use more or less continuously over the past 20, 000 years. This study looks at Vlakno’s Early Mesolithic vertebrate assemblage, from which two phases reflecting changes in the subsistence strategies of the cave’s Mesolithic inhabitants can be inferred. Comparison of the vertebrate assemblage from Vlakno cave with contemporaneous faunal assemblages from the wider region reveals specifics in the faunal composition and human subsistence strategies due to the nature of the island’s conditions.

Mesolithic, Vlakno, cave, zooarchaeology

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