Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia

M Vidal-Cordasco, D Ocio, T Hickler… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
What role did fluctuations play in biomass availability for secondary consumers in the
disappearance of Neanderthals and the survival of modern humans? To answer this, we …

Neanderthal coexistence with Homo sapiens in Europe was affected by herbivore carrying capacity

M Vidal-Cordasco, G Terlato, D Ocio… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
It has been proposed that climate change and the arrival of modern humans in Europe
affected the disappearance of Neanderthals due to their impact on trophic resources; …

Subsistence of early anatomically modern humans in Europe as evidenced in the Protoaurignacian occupations of Fumane Cave, Italy

AB Marín-Arroyo, G Terlato, M Vidal-Cordasco… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Documenting the subsistence strategies developed by early modern humans is relevant for
understanding the success of their dispersal throughout Eurasia. Today, we know that there …

[HTML][HTML] Climate deteriorations and Neanderthal demise in interior Iberia

D Wolf, T Kolb, M Alcaraz-Castaño, S Heinrich… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Time and circumstances for the disappearance of Neanderthals and its relationship with the
advent of Modern Humans are not yet sufficiently resolved, especially in case of the Iberian …

Neandertal extinction and the millennial scale climatic variability of OIS 3

F d'Errico, MFS Goñi - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
Population models seeking climate as a triggering factor for the extinction of Neandertals
and the colonisation of Europe by Anatomically Modern Humans are contradictory due to …

Reviewing the Lateglacial–Holocene transition in NW Iberia: A palaeoecological approach based on the comparison between dissimilar regions

MJ Iriarte-Chiapusso, CM Sobrino… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Isotopic records from Greenland ice cores have revealed a number of centennial to
millennial-scale climatic fluctuations affecting the eastern North Atlantic during the …

[HTML][HTML] The late persistence of the Middle Palaeolithic and Neandertals in Iberia: A review of the evidence for and against the “Ebro Frontier” model

J Zilhão - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Franco-Cantabrian region and Catalonia, the Upper Palaeolithic begins with
three assemblage-types found in stratigraphic order through the interval between 45,000 …

Dancing to the rhythms of the Pleistocene? Early Middle Paleolithic population dynamics in NW Iberia (Duero Basin and Cantabrian region)

PS Yustos, FD Martín - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Northwest of Iberia has yielded one of the most complete European Middle
Paleolithic records. Despite this wealth of information, very little is known about population …

Sustainable human population density in Western Europe between 560.000 and 360.000 years ago

J Rodríguez, C Willmes, C Sommer, A Mateos - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The time period between 560 and 360 ka (MIS14 to MIS11) was critical for the evolution of
the Neanderthal lineage and the appearance of Levallois technology in Europe. The shifts in …

Resilience and livestock adaptations to demographic growth and technological change: A diachronic perspective from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity in NE …

A Nieto Espinet, T Huet, A Trentacoste, S Guimarães… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
There are strong interactions between an economic system and its ecological context. In this
sense, livestock have been an integral part of human economies since the Neolithic …