Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage …
Apatite is an important common U-and Th-bearing accessory mineral in igneous, metamorphic and clastic sedimentary rocks. The advent of in situ U–Th–Pb apatite …
NM Slovak, A Paytan - … of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry: Vol I, 2012 - Springer
The inclusion of radiogenic strontium isotope (87 Sr/86 Sr) analysis in archaeological and bioarchaeological research has resulted in the creation of new data by which to evaluate …
M Cortés-Sánchez, A Morales-Muñiz… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Numerous studies along the northern Mediterranean borderland have documented the use of shellfish by Neanderthals but none of these finds are prior to Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS …
Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of …
C Gamble, J Gowlett, R Dunbar - Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2011 - cambridge.org
It is often the case in interdisciplinary accounts of human evolution that archaeological data are either ignored or treated superficially. This article sets out to redress this position by …
The early onset of weaning in modern humans has been linked to the high nutritional demand of brain development that is intimately connected with infant physiology and growth …
In the course of the last 500,000 years, the Neandertal lineage was the first human group to extensively colonize the middle latitudes of western Eurasia up to 55° N. Although …
C Wißing, H Rougier, C Baumann, A Comeyne… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Correlating cultural, technological and ecological aspects of both Upper Pleistocene modern humans (UPMHs) and Neandertals provides a useful approach for achieving robust …