The isotopic ecology of the mammoth steppe

DG Drucker - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The Mammoth Steppe was the dominant terrestrial biome of the Northern Hemisphere
during the late Pleistocene. It encompassed a nonanalog community of animals living in a …

Reframing the mammoth steppe: insights from analysis of isotopic niches

R Schwartz-Narbonne, FJ Longstaffe… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), horse (Equus spp.) and bison (Bison spp.)
coexisted with a variety of mammalian megafauna across the Pleistocene mammoth steppe …

High-resolution ecosystem changes pacing the millennial climate variability at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in NE-Italy

F Badino, R Pini, C Ravazzi, M Chytrý, P Bertuletti… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Observation of high-resolution terrestrial palaeoecological series can decipher relationships
between past climatic transitions, their effects on ecosystems and wildfire cyclicity. Here we …

Hunter-gatherers across the great Adriatic-Po region during the Last Glacial Maximum: Environmental and cultural dynamics

M Peresani, G Monegato, C Ravazzi, S Bertola… - Quaternary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 30 to 16.5 ka ago), the Great Adriatic-Po
Region (GAPR) was deeply affected by the spread of glaciers from the Alps to the southern …

[HTML][HTML] Early Alpine occupation backdates westward human migration in Late Glacial Europe

E Bortolini, L Pagani, G Oxilia, C Posth, F Fontana… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Before the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM,∼ 16.5 ka ago) 1 set in motion major
shifts in human culture and population structure, 2 a consistent change in lithic technology …

Isotopic insights on cave bear palaeodiet

H Bocherens - Historical Biology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
More than 300 cave bear bones from all over Europe have carbon and nitrogen isotopic
composition that match overwhelmingly a diet based on plants, except for samples from two …

Exploring late Paleolithic and Mesolithic diet in the Eastern Alpine region of Italy through multiple proxies

G Oxilia, E Bortolini, F Badino… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The analysis of prehistoric human dietary habits is key for understanding the
effects of paleoenvironmental changes on the evolution of cultural and social human …

Large-scale mitogenomic analysis of the phylogeography of the Late Pleistocene cave bear

J Gretzinger, M Molak, E Reiter, S Pfrengle, C Urban… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is one of the Late Pleistocene megafauna species that
faced extinction at the end of the last ice age. Although it is represented by one of the largest …

[HTML][HTML] Combining Bayesian age models and genetics to investigate population dynamics and extinction of the last mammoths in northern Siberia

M Dehasque, P Pečnerová, H Muller… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
To understand the causes and implications of an extinction event, detailed information is
necessary. However, this can be challenging when working with poorly resolved …

[HTML][HTML] Palaeodiet during the pre-dormancy period of MIS 3 Romanian cave bears as inferred from dental microwear analysis

P Duñó-Iglesias, I Ramírez-Pedraza, F Rivals… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) have been recognized as being predominantly herbivorous.
However, Romanian Carpathian cave bears have displayed a flexible diet based on a wide …