Resilience at the Transition to Agriculture: The Long-Term Landscape and Resource Development at the Aceramic Neolithic Tell Site of Chogha Golan (Iran)

Table 4

Taxa categories based on body size and predator evasion tactics. Weight ranges from Nowack [96] and Silva and Downing [97].

	Weight range (kg)
Very large ungulate
Aurochs (Bos primigenius)	500–1000
Large ungulate
Red deer (Cervus elaphus)	75–340
Wild pig (Sus scrofa)	50–350
Medium ungulate
Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica)	50–120
Wild goat (Capra aegagrus)	40–90
Wild sheep (Ovis sp.)	40–90
Small ungulate
Gazelle (Gazella gazella)	17–23
Small carnivore
Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx)	8–38
Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)	8–10
Wild cat (Felis silvestris)	3–8
Small fast-moving
Cape hare (Lepus capensis)	1.3–7.0
Rock partridge (Alectoris graeca)	0.51–0.68
Fish (Pices)
Small slow-moving
Tortoise (Testudo sp.)	1-2+