supplementary information on the fauna from Tel Rehov

Supplement 1: List of archaeozoological assemblages with NISP > 100 from Iron Age II sites in Israel. 

Supplement 2: Osteometric measurements in Tel Rehov.

Comparison_Fauna_Composition.pdf. (A) Correlation plot for animal groups (caprines, cattle, suids, game animals – deer and gazelle, transport animals – donkeys and camels) based on logit-transformed relative frequencies of the animals represented in 32 Iron Age II assemblages with NISP > 100 (10.5281/zenodo.5544926 , supplement 1). Numbers above the diagonal represent Pearson correlation coefficients, and asterisks denote statistical significance ( *, P < 0.1; **, P < 0.05; ***, P < 0.001). (B) Principle components analysis of the logit transformed taxonomic relative frequency data. Colors mark geographic location, plotted in (C); numbers refer to site identifiers in Supplement 1. Arrow angle with the axis indicate the contribution of each taxon’s frequency to the principle components, and transparency their overall importance. Statistics used the ‘factoextra’ package in R (4.02)(R Core Team, 2020).

Sheep_LSI.jpeg. Changes in the log-size ratio of sheep measurements, calculated using the ‘zoolog’ package (REF) in R (R Core Team 2020) from the measurements in 10.5281/zenodo.5544926 (supplement 2).