[HTML][HTML] Living to fight another day: the ecological and evolutionary significance of Neanderthal healthcare

P Spikins, A Needham, B Wright, C Dytham… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Evidence of care for the ill and injured amongst Neanderthals, inferred through skeletal
evidence for survival from severe illness and injury, is widely accepted. However, healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] Late Neanderthal “menu” from northern to southern Italy: freshwater and terrestrial animal resources

M Romandini, S Silvestrini, C Real, F Lugli… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the unanswered questions in Palaeolithic studies is how Neanderthals adapted their
subsistence strategies by changing their diet at such a late stage of their existence …

[HTML][HTML] Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe

ST Hussain, M Weiss, TK Nielsen - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2022 - Elsevier
Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

Human predatory behavior and the social implications of communal hunting based on evidence from the TD10. 2 bison bone bed at Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Spain)

A Rodriguez-Hidalgo, P Saladie, A Olle… - Journal of human …, 2017 - Elsevier
Zooarcheological research is an important tool in reconstructing subsistence, as well as for
inferring relevant aspects regarding social behavior in the past. The organization of hunting …

[HTML][HTML] The paleo-synanthropic niche: A first attempt to define animal's adaptation to a human-made micro-environment in the Late Pleistocene

C Baumann - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Synanthropic behavior, ie, the behavior of wild animals that benefit from a shared ecology
with humans, has existed long before the sedentarization of Homo sapiens during the …

Calculated or caring? Neanderthal healthcare in social context

P Spikins, A Needham, L Tilley, G Hitchens - World Archaeology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Explanations for patterns of healed trauma in Neanderthals have been a matter of debate for
several decades. Despite widespread evidence for recovery from injuries or survival despite …

[HTML][HTML] Neanderthal and carnivore activities at Llonin Cave, Asturias, northern Iberian Peninsula: Faunal study of Mousterian levels (MIS 3)

A Sanchis, C Real, V Sauqué, C Núnez-Lahuerta… - Comptes Rendus …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a study of the macromammalian fauna recovered from Mousterian
levels of Llonin Cave. The sample is highly heterogeneous and comprises six species of …

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 …

Neanderthal logistic mobility during MIS3: zooarchaeological perspective of Abric Romaní level P (Spain)

J Marín, A Rodríguez-Hidalgo, J Vallverdú… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mobility strategies of Neanderthal groups are studied through the characterization and
analysis of archaeological sites and traditionally compared to the types of settlements …

Hominin subsistence and site function of TD10. 1 bone bed level at Gran Dolina site (Atapuerca) during the late Acheulean

A Rodríguez‐Hidalgo, P Saladié, A Ollé… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In a recent paper, Stiner reviewed certain trends in the Middle Palaeolithic (MP) economy
and social behaviour, including most notably galvanization of the prime‐age ungulate …