Plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: Food, medicine and raw materials

K Hardy - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
There is little surviving evidence for plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods
yet the evidence there is, clearly indicates the importance of plants in the diet, as medicines …

Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates

K Hardy, H Bocherens, JB Miller, L Copeland - Journal of Human Evolution, 2022 - Elsevier
Evidence for plants rarely survives on Paleolithic sites, while animal bones and
biomolecular analyses suggest animal produce was important to hominin populations …

A Neandertal dietary conundrum: Insights provided by tooth enamel Zn isotopes from Gabasa, Spain

K Jaouen, V Villalba-Mouco… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The characterization of Neandertals' diets has mostly relied on nitrogen isotope analyses of
bone and tooth collagen. However, few nitrogen isotope data have been recovered from …

Stable isotopes reveal patterns of diet and mobility in the last Neandertals and first modern humans in Europe

C Wißing, H Rougier, C Baumann, A Comeyne… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Correlating cultural, technological and ecological aspects of both Upper Pleistocene modern
humans (UPMHs) and Neandertals provides a useful approach for achieving robust …

Wintertime stress, nursing, and lead exposure in Neanderthal children

TM Smith, C Austin, DR Green, R Joannes-Boyau… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Scholars endeavor to understand the relationship between human evolution and climate
change. This is particularly germane for Neanderthals, who survived extreme Eurasian …

New evidence of Neandertal butchery traditions through the marrow extraction in southwestern Europe (MIS 5–3)

D Vettese, A Borel, R Blasco, L Chevillard, T Stavrova… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Long bone breakage for bone marrow recovery is a commonly observed practice in Middle
Palaeolithic contexts, regardless of the climatic conditions. While lithic technology is largely …

What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe

AB MarÍN‐Arroyo, A Sanz‐Royo - Journal of Quaternary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in northern Spain has revealed the disappearance of Neanderthal
populations in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region a few millennia earlier than in eastern and …

Diet and habitat of the late Middle Pleistocene mammals from the Casal de'Pazzi site (Rome, Italy) using stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios

G Briatico, P Gioia, H Bocherens - Quaternary International, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The late Middle Pleistocene archaeological site of Casal de'Pazzi (MIS 7,∼ 240–
200 ka) in central Italy provided a complex of paleontological (both fauna and flora) and …

Triangulating Neanderthal cognition: A tale of not seeing the forest for the trees

M Breyl - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The inference of Neanderthal cognition, including their cultural and linguistic capabilities,
has persisted as a fiercely debated research topic for decades. This lack of consensus is …

Reconstructing Late Pleistocene paleoclimate at the scale of human behavior: an example from the Neandertal occupation of La Ferrassie (France)

S Pederzani, V Aldeias, HL Dibble, P Goldberg… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Exploring the role of changing climates in human evolution is currently impeded by a
scarcity of climatic information at the same temporal scale as the human behaviors …