Impossible Neanderthals? Making string, throwing projectiles and catching small game during Marine Isotope Stage 4 (Abri du Maras, France)

BL Hardy, MH Moncel, C Daujeard, P Fernandes… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Neanderthal behavior is often described in one of two contradictory ways: 1) Neanderthals
were behaviorally inflexible and specialized in large game hunting or 2) Neanderthals …

To meat or not to meat? New perspectives on N eanderthal ecology

L Fiorenza, S Benazzi, AG Henry… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Neanderthal coexistence with Homo sapiens in Europe was affected by herbivore carrying capacity

M Vidal-Cordasco, G Terlato, D Ocio… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
It has been proposed that climate change and the arrival of modern humans in Europe
affected the disappearance of Neanderthals due to their impact on trophic resources; …

[图书][B] Thin on the ground: Neandertal biology, archeology, and ecology

SE Churchill - 2014 - books.google.com
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 diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia

DC Salazar-García, RC Power, AS Serra… - Quaternary …, 2013 - Elsevier
During recent decades, Neanderthal diet has been a major research topic in
palaeoanthropology. This has been accelerated by the maturation of different techniques …

[图书][B] Lagomorphs: pikas, rabbits, and hares of the world

AT Smith, CH Johnston, PC Alves, K Hackländer - 2018 - books.google.com
The definitive guide to all lagomorphs—pikas, rabbits, and hares. Numbering 92 species
worldwide, members of the order Lagomorpha are familiar to people throughout the world …

An emerging consensus in palaeoanthropology: demography was the main factor responsible for the disappearance of Neanderthals

K Vaesen, GL Dusseldorp, MJ Brandt - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The causes of Neanderthal disappearance about 40,000 years ago remain highly contested.
Over a dozen serious hypotheses are currently endorsed to explain this enigmatic event …

Cultural and biological transformations in the Middle Pleistocene Levant: a view from Qesem Cave, Israel

R Barkai, A Gopher - Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern …, 2013 - Springer
In this paper we present our interpretation about the circumstances leading towards an
evolutionary replacement of the earliest populations of the Levant, most probably Homo …

[图书][B] Hunting wildlife in the tropics and subtropics

JE Fa, SM Funk, R Nasi - 2022 - books.google.com
The hunting of wild animals for their meat has been a crucial activity in the evolution of
humans. It continues to be an essential source of food and a generator of income for millions …

On the ecological context of the earliest human settlements in Europe: resource availability and competition intensity in the carnivore guild of Barranco León-D and …

G Rodríguez-Gómez, P Palmqvist, J Rodríguez… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
With an age of∼ 1.4 Ma, the Early Pleistocene archaeopaleontological sites of Barranco
León and Fuente Nueva-3 (Orce, Baza Basin, SE Spain) provide the oldest evidence on …