Leopards as Taphonomic Agents in Dolomitic Caves—Implications for Bone Accumulations in the Hominid-bearing Deposits of South Africa

By D. Ruiter, L. Berger. 2000

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The use of tooth pits to identify carnivore taxa in tooth-marked archaeofaunas and their relevance to reconstruct hominid carcass processing behaviours (2003, background): “Although leopards have been reported to sporadically prey upon larger carcasses [12,20], most of the animals they hunt are smaller than 150 kg [8,11,22,20,25].”
A study of dimensional differences of tooth marks (pits and scores) on bones modified by small and large carnivores (2012, background): “…1981; Blumenschine 1986; Domínguez-Rodrigo 1993; Faith 2007), leopards (Sutcliffe 1973; Brain 1981; Cavallo 1998; Cavallo and Blumenschine 1989; Ruiter and Berger 2000; Pickering et al. 2004; Domínguez-Rodrigo et al. 2007a, b), lions (Domíguez-Rodrigo 1999a), pumas (Nasti 1996; Borrero et al.…”
Taphonomic analysis of leporid remains obtained from modern Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) scats (2008, background): “Their results have been used to try to identify the predators responsible for the accumulation of faunal remains in archaeological contexts (Cruz-Uribe, 1991; Palmqvist et al., 1996; Richardson, 1980; Ruiter and Berger, 2000).”