Predation is one of the most recurrent sources of bone accumulations. The influence of
predation is widely studied for large mammal sites where humans, acting as predators …

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 …

The use of bone as raw material for implements is documented since the Early Pleistocene.
Throughout the Early and Middle Pleistocene bone tool shaping was done by percussion …

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 …

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

In a previous article, we presented an innovative method to analyze cut marks produced with
metal tools on animal bones from a metrical and tridimensional perspective (Maté-González …

The recurrent presence at Middle Palaeolithic sites of megafaunal remains, such as
mammoth, elephant and rhinoceros, together with isotope analyses signalling meat as a …

Castel di Guido is a typical Middle Pleistocene elephant site where intentionally fragmented
bones of elephant and of other large mammals were found together with Acheulean biface …

The interior of the Iberian Peninsula has few Middle Palaeolithic sites, especially when
compared to other areas of the Mediterranean Basin and the northern Spanish region. Few …

This work analyses the chronology of fluvial terrace sequences of the two most important
fluvial basins from central Spain draining to the Atlantic Ocean (Upper Tagus and Duero …