The Sopeña rock-shelter is a Palaeolithic site located in the northern slopes of the
Cantabrian mountain range of northern Spain, facing the Bay of Biscay, in the Principality of …

Abstract During the Upper Paleolithic, lions become an important theme in Paleolithic art
and are more frequent in anthropogenic faunal assemblages. However, the relationship …

Simple Summary Teeth are the hardest anatomical structure of the animal body. As a result,
even when preservation conditions are extremely poor and the rest of the skeleton …

Competition for resources is a key question in the study of our early human evolution. From
the first hominin groups, carnivores have played a fundamental role in the ecosystem. From …

Taphonomic works aim at discovering how paleontological and archaeofaunal assemblages
were formed. They also aim at determining how hominin fossils were preserved or …

The balance of power (that is the dominance on the predation arena between carnivore
competitors and hominins) remains controversial. One reflection of this is the carnivore …

To date, in Africa, evidence for animal processing and consumption in caves routinely used
as living spaces is only documented in the late Middle Pleistocene of the North and South of …

Abstract The African Middle Pleistocene (781–126 ka) is a key period for human evolution,
witnessing both the origin of the modern human lineage and the lithic turnover from Earlier …

Within the past 80 years, the Kromdraai site in South Africa has provided a diverse Early
Pleistocene fauna (notably bovids, carnivores, primates, large rodents, birds, proboscidea) …

This book places lion conservation and the relationship between people and lions both in
historical context and in the context of the contemporary politics of conservation in Africa …