Isotopic tracking of carnivore palaeoecology is a relatively new approach that yielded
important results for the study of the non-analogue mammoth steppe biome. After describing …

Neanderthal genomes have been recovered from sites across Eurasia, painting an
increasingly complex picture of their populations' structure that mostly indicates that late …

The middle Rhône valley, located at the southeastern margins of the Massif Central in
France, produced a large number of Middle Palaeolithic sites, most of which dated to the …

Diversity in the used bone found in the European Middle Paleolithic is very low, but bone
retouchers are the most abundant and the most common. This paper focuses on the detailed …

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 …

The exact strategies and technologies underlying Neanderthal hunting events remain open
for debate with lithic points being sparse across the European Middle Palaeolithic. An …

Long bone breakage for bone marrow recovery is a commonly observed practice in Middle
Palaeolithic contexts, regardless of the climatic conditions. While lithic technology is largely …

The emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic, and its variability over time and space are key
questions in the field of prehistoric archaeology. Many sites have been documented in the …

The site of Isturitz is clearly important to discussions of the emergence and development of
the Aurignacian. It bears a long stratigraphic sequence of this period and has benefited from …

New investigations of finds from middle Rhone Valley sites (Le Figuier, Abri du Maras,
Baume Flandin and Ranc Pointu 2) and from the mountainous southeastern area of the …