Food of Common Barn Owl (Tyto alba) from ancient Abusir : finds from the tomb of Kakaibaef (AC 29)

Abstract

Pellets of owls found during the research AC29 tomb in Abusir are an important source of information not only about the composition of food of owls, but also about the environment in which they during the First millennium BC. Kr. lived.

Keywords

• Abusir
• Egypt
• Common Barn-owl
• pellets
• microfauna
• synanthrope species
• First Millennium B.C.