Marine faunal remains from Grotta d'Oriente (Favignana Island, NW Sicily) offer invaluable
snapshots of human-coastal environment interaction in the central Mediterranean from the …

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 …

Grotta d'Oriente, on the island of Favignana (NW Sicily, Italy), preserves evidence of the
human exploitation of marine resources dating back to the early Holocene (Mesolithic and …

The exploitation of marine molluscs by Mediterranean hunter-gatherers increased from the
Upper Palaeolithic onwards, although their role in subsistence has rarely been investigated …

This article reviews key data and debates focused on relative sea-level changes since the
Last Interglacial (approximately the last 132,000 years) in the Mediterranean Basin, and …

Studies carried out to date on the Iberian Peninsula have led to the belief that hunter-
gatherer sites with exploitation of the marine environment are particularly found in the …

Marine molluscs have been recovered from sites around the Mediterranean Sea dating as
far back as the Lower Palaeolithic, when hominins might have started consuming them (ca …

The numerous caves of north-west Sicily often have Upper Palaeo/ithic and Mesolithic
occupation, along with food remains, especially substantial accumulations of marine she/1s …

Subsistence and mobility strategies of hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean Basin during
the transition from the late Pleistocene to the early Holocene have been the object of few …

The subsistence of hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean Basin has been the object of few
studies, which have not fully clarified the role of aquatic resources in their diets. Here we …