A Neanderthal hunting camp in the central system of the Iberian Peninsula: a zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter (Pinilla del …

A Moclán, R Huguet, B Márquez, C Laplana… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The interior of the Iberian Peninsula has few Middle Palaeolithic sites, especially when
compared to other areas of the Mediterranean Basin and the northern Spanish region. Few …

Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications

BL Hardy, MH Moncel, C Kerfant, M Lebon… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Neanderthals are often considered as less technologically advanced than modern humans.
However, we typically only find faunal remains or stone tools at Paleolithic sites. Perishable …

Neanderthal foraging in freshwater ecosystems: A reappraisal of the Middle Paleolithic archaeological fish record from continental Western Europe

E Guillaud, P Béarez, C Daujeard, AR Defleur… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The prevalence of large game found in association with Middle Paleolithic tools has
traditionally biased our ideas of Neanderthal subsistence practices. Studies document the …

[HTML][HTML] Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction

L Slimak, T Vimala, A Seguin-Orlando, L Metz… - Cell genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Neanderthal genomes have been recovered from sites across Eurasia, painting an
increasingly complex picture of their populations' structure that mostly indicates that late …

[HTML][HTML] Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe

ST Hussain, M Weiss, TK Nielsen - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2022 - Elsevier
Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

New evidence of broader diets for archaic Homo populations in the northwestern Mediterranean

E Morin, J Meier, K El Guennouni, AM Moigne… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Investigating diet breadth is critical for understanding how archaic Homo populations,
including Neanderthals, competed for seasonally scarce resources. The current consensus …

Biostratigraphy and Palaeoecology of European Equus

N Boulbes, EN Van Asperen - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We present an inventory of the progress of recent research on the biostratigraphy and
palaeoecology of the genus Equus sensu lato in Europe. Our discussion starts with the new …

Neanderthal subsistence, taphonomy and chronology at Salzgitter‐Lebenstedt (Germany): a multifaceted analysis of morphologically unidentifiable bone

K Ruebens, GM Smith, H Fewlass… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pleistocene faunal assemblages are often highly fragmented, hindering taxonomic
identifications and interpretive potentials. In this paper, we apply four different …

The Late Middle Palaeolithic occupation of Abri du Maras (Layer 1, Neronian, Southeast France): integrating lithic analyses, ZooMS and radiocarbon dating to …

K Ruebens, V Sinet-Mathiot, S Talamo… - Journal of Paleolithic …, 2022 - Springer
The exact strategies and technologies underlying Neanderthal hunting events remain open
for debate with lithic points being sparse across the European Middle Palaeolithic. An …

New evidence of Neandertal butchery traditions through the marrow extraction in southwestern Europe (MIS 5–3)

D Vettese, A Borel, R Blasco, L Chevillard, T Stavrova… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
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 …