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; …

Abstract The Late Pleistocene archeological record shows emerging patterns of population
turnover frequently associated with technological change between c. 50–40 thousand years …

Abstract The Balkan Peninsula is a key biogeographical region in Southern Europe, which
acted as a refugium for late Pleistocene flora and fauna during cold spells and favoured the …

Coastal prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Atlantic Iberia were particularly important to
understanding Paleolithic human innovation and resilience. This study will focus on Middle …

Sopeña is a limestone shelter in the northern slopes of the Cantabrian range of mountains of
northern Spain. A long sequence of in situ nearly undisturbed archaeological strata has …

ABSTRACT Constrained by the Maritime Alps and a steep coastal shelf, Liguria served as a
biogeographic corridor linking mainland Western Europe to peninsular Italy throughout the …

The rich archaeofaunal record of Iberia provides a means of exploring potential differences
between Neanderthal and anatomically modern human interactions with the environment. In …

Abstract The Central Balkans are a key biogeographical region in Southern Europe,
influenced by a central European-Mediterranean climate, which acted as a refugium for flora …

In this study we present the results of the archaeozoological and taphonomic analysis of the
macromammal assemblage from the Uluzzian levels of three Italian sites: Uluzzo C Rock …

Micro-archaeological data from sites located in central and eastern Europe show that, in
comparison with other Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, Gravettian foragers used fire …