Marine molluscs have been recovered from sites around the Mediterranean Sea dating as
far back as the Lower Palaeolithic, when hominins might have started consuming them (ca …

The suggestion that the Neanderthal linage hominids had predominantly rich diet in meat
derived from large game is progressing towards views which propose a higher nutritional …

The exploitation strategies of faunal resources have figured prominently in discussions of
the timing and nature of the beginning of modern human behaviour. These strategies have …

During recent decades, Neanderthal diet has been a major research topic in
palaeoanthropology. This has been accelerated by the maturation of different techniques …

Originally designed to explain causes of increased productivity in agricultural systems, the
concept of intensification has become widely linked to hunter-gatherer archaeology …

Modern nutritional studies have found that diverse diets are linked to lower infant mortality
rates and longer life expectancies in humans. This is primarily because humans require …

Leporid (rabbit and hare) bones have been shown to yield important information about
subsistence practices, mobility patterns, and demographic trends during the Paleolithic of …

Contrary to their cold-adapted image, Neanderthals inhabited Pleistocene Europe during a
time of great climatic fluctuation with temperatures ranging from as warm as present-day …

Several recent studies employ foraging theory to model early Paleoindians as big game
specialists who focused on hunting large bodied, high-return animals such as mammoths. In …

Demographic trends in human populations are influenced by natural selection acting upon
differential rates of fertility and mortality. In human societies, fertility is primarily influenced by …