A new eastern limit of the Pacific Flying Fox, Pteropus tonganus (Chiroptera : Pteropodidae), in prehistoric polynesia: A case of possible human transport and extirpation

Weisler, MI, Bollt, R and Findlater, A (2006) A new eastern limit of the Pacific Flying Fox, Pteropus tonganus (Chiroptera : Pteropodidae), in prehistoric polynesia: A case of possible human transport and extirpation. Pacific Science, 60 3: 403-411.


Author Weisler, MI
Bollt, R
Findlater, A
Title A new eastern limit of the Pacific Flying Fox, Pteropus tonganus (Chiroptera : Pteropodidae), in prehistoric polynesia: A case of possible human transport and extirpation
Journal name Pacific Science  (ERA 2012 Listed)    (ERA 2010 Rank C)   Check publisher's open access policy
Publication date 2006
Sub-type Article
DOI 10.1353/psc.2006.0020
Volume number 60
Issue number 3
ISSN 0030-8870
Start page 403
End page 411
Total pages 9
Editor C. Daehler
Place of publication Hawaii, USA
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Collection year 2006
Language eng
Subject C1
430204 Archaeology of Complex Societies - Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas
270709 Biogeography
750902 Understanding the pasts of other societies
Abstract Five bones, representing one adult of the Pacific Flying Fox, Pteropus tonganus, were recovered from an archaeological site on Rurutu (151 degrees 21' W, 22 degrees 27' S), Austral Islands, French Polynesia, making this the most eastern extension of the species. For the first time, flying fox bones from cultural deposits were directly dated by accelerator mass spectrometry, yielding an age of death between A.D. 1064 and 1155. Their stratigraphic position in an Archaic period archaeological site and the absence of bones in the late prehistoric to historic layers point to extirpation of the species. No flying fox bones were found in pre-human deposits and human transport of the species cannot be ruled out.
Keyword Marine & Freshwater Biology
Zoology
Radiocarbon Age Calibration
Fossil Birds
Cook-islands
Extinction
Impact
Samoa
Bp
Q-Index Code C1

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