The consumption of small prey dates back to the Plio-Pleistocene chronologies in some
African sites. However, the systematic acquisition and consumption of small prey in the pre …

Feral Pigeons have colonised all corners of the Earth, having developed a close association
with humans and their activities. The wild ancestor of the Feral Pigeon, the Rock Dove, is a …

The zooarchaeological study of small-vertebrate consumption requires a taphonomical
approach to differentiate animal bones that were incidentally incorporated from those that …

Abstract At Petersfels (Hegau Jura, southwestern Germany), one of the most prolific
Magdalenian sites in Central Europe, nearly one hundred years of excavation and research …

Abstract The Levantine Corridor was one of the most important contact zones between Africa
and Eurasia during the Pleistocene and, as a consequence, a potential area in which to …

An ecological perspective is essential to our understanding of variations in the faunal
communities and their relationships with human groups, as well as the foraging strategies …

From the Upper Palaeolithic to the beginning of the Holocene, the presence of small
carnivores in archaeological context is widely interpreted as evidence for peltry activities …

This is the first article that describes in detail the bird remains from the Gravettian mega-site
Pavlov I in the Czech Republic. More than 1000 bird bones represent at least 19 taxa, of …

By comparing the present and past avifauna, we investigate the human practices that
involved the knowledge and interaction with birds during the Late-Holocene in Puna Austral …

This paper publishes the results of the study of bird remains from Cova Negra level IIIb, a
level with Middle Palaeolithic industry that corresponds to the upper part of the sequence …