The species represented — red deer, wild goat, wild sheep, aurochs, wild boar — are characteristic of different habitat zones at different elevations in the Zagros.

The presence of bones from multiple habitat types suggests that the community was exploiting resources across an elevational range, not limiting itself to the immediate valley.

Seasonal patterns in the animal bone — identifiable through the ages at which animals were killed, assessed from tooth development and eruption patterns — give some information about what time of year the cave was occupied most intensively.

This kind of analysis has been applied to some Neanderthal sites and has shown that many sites were used seasonally rather than year-round.