Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

J Zilhão, DE Angelucci, MA Igreja, LJ Arnold, E Badal… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A record of the regular exploitation of aquatic foods has been lacking in
Neandertal Europe. By contrast, marine resources feature prominently—alongside personal …

[图书][B] On death in the Mesolithic: Or the mortuary practices of the last hunter-gatherers of the South-Western Iberian Peninsula, 7th–6th Millennium BCE

R Peyroteo-Stjerna - 2016 - repositorio.ulisboa.pt
The history of death is entangled with the history of changing social values, meaning that a
shift in attitudes to death will be consistent with changes in a society's world view. Late …

Embedded behavior: human activities and the construction of the Mesolithic shellmound of Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge, Portugal

V Aldeias, N Bicho - Geoarchaeology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Shellmound formation processes are greatly influenced by human inputs associated with an
intensive exploitation of marine and estuarine resources. The complex stratigraphy of …

The emergence of Mesolithic cemeteries in SW Europe: insights from the El Collado (Oliva, Valencia, Spain) radiocarbon record

JF Gibaja, ME Subirà, X Terradas, FJ Santos, L Agulló… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Located on the Iberian Mediterranean coast, El Collado is an open-air site where a rescue
excavation was conducted over two seasons in 1987 and 1988. The archaeological work …

Pleistocene hunter-gatherer coastal adaptations in Atlantic Iberia

N Bicho, E Esteves - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coastal prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Atlantic Iberia were particularly important to
understanding Paleolithic human innovation and resilience. This study will focus on Middle …

Chronology of the burial activity of the last hunter-gatherers in the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula, Portugal

R Peyroteo-Stjerna - Radiocarbon, 2021 - cambridge.org
For most of human history, funerary burial has been unusual. Archaeology shows a shift in
funerary practices in postglacial hunter-gatherers, in parts of Europe during the Late …

The history of the European aurochs (Bos primigenius) from the Middle Pleistocene to its extinction: an archaeological investigation of its evolution, morphological …

E Wright - 2013 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
The aurochs (Bos primigenius) was an important animal to humans, during prehistory when
it was widely hunted, and in some areas also during historical periods. It is generally agreed …

Resilience, replacement and acculturation in the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition: the case of Muge, central Portugal

N Bicho, J Cascalheira, C Gonçalves, C Umbelino… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Evidence for the first Neolithic population in central Portugal dates to as early as c. 7600 cal
BP. These first farmers were exogenous groups arriving to the Atlantic coast from the …

Changes in the exploitation dynamics of small terrestrial vertebrates and fish during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition in the SW Iberian Peninsula: A review

R Dias, C Detry, N Bicho - The Holocene, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The Pleistocene–Holocene transition c. 11.5 ka cal. BP is associated with dramatic climatic
changes. These events led to fundamental shifts in landscape and have, therefore, been …

Thermo-microstratigraphy of shells reveals invisible fire use and possible cooking in the archaeological record

CD Simões, V Aldeias - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The archaeological visibility of hearths related to shellfish cooking methods is limited,
particularly in pre-ceramic shell midden contexts. Important evidence for use of fire is the …