The evolutionary history of modern humans is characterized by numerous migrations driven
by environmental change, population pressures, and cultural innovations. In Europe, the …

The spread of agriculture is an important topic of archaeological research, but relatively few
studies address the drivers behind the spread of specific species empirically. Here we use …

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 …

Debate on the ancestry of Europeans centers on the interplay between Mesolithic foragers
and Neolithic farmers. Foragers are generally believed to have disappeared shortly after the …

From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central
Europe–the LBK, after the German labels Linearbandkeramik or Linienbandkeramik–are …

There are relatively few coastal Mesolithic sites in the Iberian Mediterranean region,
probably due to a number of factors including sea level changes and the disappearance of …

Food is well‐known to encode social and cultural values, for example different social groups
use different consumption patterns to act as social boundaries. When societies and cultures …

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 …

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 …

Hunter-gatherers living in Europe during the transition from the late Pleistocene to the
Holocene intensified food acquisition by broadening the range of resources exploited to …