Excavation of Ptolemaic Period (ca. 309–30 BC) strata within Theban Tombs 11, 12, -399-, and UE194A by the Spanish Mission to Dra Abu el-Naga (also known as the Djehuty Project), on the west bank of the Nile River opposite Luxor, Egypt, yielded remains of at least 175 individual small mammals that include four species of shrews (Eulipotypha: Soricidae) and two species of rodents (Rodentia: Muridae). Two of the shrews (Crocidura fulvastra and Crocidura pasha) no longer occur in Egypt, and one species (Crocidura olivieri) is known in the country only from a disjunct population inhabiting the Nile delta and the Fayum. Although deposited in the tombs by humans as part of religious ceremonies, these animals probably derived originally from local wild populations. The coexistence of this diverse array of shrew species as part of the mammal community near Luxor indicates greater availability of moist floodplain habitats than occur there at present. These were probably made possible by a greater flow of the Nile, as indicated by geomorphological and palynological evidence. The mammal fauna recovered by the Spanish Mission provides a unique snapshot of the native Ptolemaic community during this time period, and it permits us to gauge community turnover in the Nile valley of Upper Egypt during the last 2000 years. It also serves as a relevant example for understanding the extinction and extirpation of mammal species as effects of future environmental changes predicted by current climatic models.

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古埃及木乃伊鼩鼱（哺乳动物：Eulipotyphla：Soricidae）和老鼠（啮齿目：鼠科）来自西班牙的 Dra Abu el-Naga，以及它们对过去两千年尼罗河谷环境变化的影响

西班牙使团在西岸的 Dra Abu el-Naga（也称为 Djehuty 项目）对 Theban Tombs 11、12、-399- 和 UE194A 内的托勒密时期（约公元前 309-30 年）地层进行了挖掘埃及卢克索对面的尼罗河发现了至少 175 具个体小型哺乳动物的遗骸，其中包括四种鼩鼱（Eulipotypha：Soricidae）和两种啮齿动物（Rodentia：Muridae）。两个鼩鼱（鲶鱼和鳄鱼帕夏) 不再出现在埃及，而一个物种 (鳄梨) 在该国仅从居住在尼罗河三角洲和法尤姆河的分散人口中得知。尽管人类将其作为宗教仪式的一部分存放在坟墓中，但这些动物可能最初来自当地的野生种群。作为卢克索附近哺乳动物群落的一部分，这种多样化的鼩鼱物种的共存表明潮湿洪泛区栖息地的可用性比目前那里更多。正如地貌和孢粉学证据所表明的那样，这些可能是由于尼罗河的更大流量而成为可能的。西班牙代表团回收的哺乳动物群提供了这段时期托勒密本土社区的独特快照，它使我们能够衡量过去 2000 年上埃及尼罗河谷的社区流动情况。