We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the
largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect …

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 Neolithic expansion in the Iberian Peninsula is marked by the introduction of livestock
and domesticated crops which modified subsistence strategies in an unprecedented …

The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

Abstract During the Mesolithic in Europe, there is widespread evidence for an increase in
exploitation of aquatic resources. In contrast, the subsequent Neolithic is characterised by …

Despite more than a century of detailed investigation of the Magdalenian period in Northern
Iberia, our understanding of the diets during this period is limited. Methodologies for the …

Archaeological bone collagen is highly useful for radiocarbon (14C) dating and
palaeodietary reconstruction. However, collagen preservation and carbon contamination are …

Determining the degree to which humans relied on coastal resources in the past is key for
understanding long-term social and economic development, as well as for assessing human …

Neanderthals are known primarily from their habitation of Western Eurasia, but they also
populated large expanses of Northern Asia for thousands of years. Owing to a sparse …

In this contribution we dismantle the perceived role of marine resources and plant foods in
the subsistence economy of Holocene foragers of the Central Mediterranean using a …