Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional
needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage …

Evidence for plants rarely survives on Paleolithic sites, while animal bones and
biomolecular analyses suggest animal produce was important to hominin populations …

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 …

Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current
knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of …

Neanderthal dietary reconstructions have, to date, been based on indirect evidence and
may underestimate the significance of plants as a food source. While zooarchaeological and …

The paleodietary traits of the equid population from Schöningen 13 II-4 were investigated
through tooth mesowear and microwear analyses, as well as stable isotopic analyses. The …

There is an ongoing discourse about whether or not external abrasives influence the
microscopic wear in herbivore teeth, including a statement that “dust does not matter”. We …

Owing to the late Pleistocene extinctions, the megafauna of Europe, Australia and the
Americas disappeared, and with them the dispersal service they offered megafaunal fruit …

The late Pleistocene settlement of highland settings in mainland Southeast Asia by Homo
sapiens has challenged our species's ability to occupy mountainous landscapes that acted …

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 …