Dietary reconstructions can offer an improved perspective on human capacities of
adaptation to the environment. New methodological approaches and analytical techniques …

Zooarchaeological research at Qesem Cave, Israel demonstrates that large-game hunting
was a regular practice by the late Lower Paleolithic period. The 400-to 200,000-year-old …

The habitual consumption of large-animal resources (eg, similar sized or larger than the
consumer) separates human and nonhuman primate behavior. Flaked stone tool use …

Bone surface modifications are foundational to the correct identification of hominin butchery
traces in the archaeological record. Until present, no analytical technique existed that could …

The late Lower Paleolithic archaeofaunas of Qesem Cave in the southern Levant span 400–
200 ka and associate with Acheulo-Yabrudian (mainly Amudian) industries. The large …

Some traditional zooarchaeological analyses assume that faunal assemblages associated
with stone tools are basically the result of human behaviour. Under this view, in previous …

Microscopic analysis represents a powerful tool for understanding taphonomy. Our work, as
in other studies, aims to identify the origin of different kinds of marks on bones. In this paper …

Recent experimental studies have developed new diagnostic criteria to differentiate
between trampling and cut marks. Within cut marks, these diagnostic criteria have been …

Studies of bone surface modifications (BSMs) such as cut marks are crucial to our
understanding of human and earlier hominin subsistence behavior. Over the last several …

Social learning, as an information acquisition process, enables intergenerational
transmission and the stabilisation of cultural forms, generating and sustaining behavioural …