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The ecology of Neanderthals
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The ecology of Neanderthals
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
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14 (3-43-4)
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Journal
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Editor:
Simon Hillson
G J R Maat
Shelley Saunders
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Ariane Burke
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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2004
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/109061918
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04 May 2007
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The ecology of Neanderthals
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Special issue comprising a set of thirteen papers that explore different aspects of current understanding of the ecology of Neanderthal hominins. The papers derive from a session held at the 2002 ICAZ Conference at Durham, and include
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes as tracers of change in diet breadth during Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in Europe
Dorothée Drucker
Hervé Bocherens
162 - 177
carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in fossil bone collagen have been used as evidence for an increase of diet breadth between Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthals and Early Upper Palaeolithic anatomically modern humans. In this paper, the authors revisit the rules of palaeodietary reconstruction using collagen stable isotopes and reassess the possible isotopic signatures of potential protein resources available to prehistoric humans. It appears that the interpretation of the human's isotopic signature does not necessarily imply a significant proportion of aquatic-derived protein in the diet either for Neandertal or for first anatomically modern humans in Europe. It is argued that exploitation of aquatic ecosystems by humans needs to be supported by further zooarchaeological evidence but that, nevertheless, isotopic biogeochemistry of fossil human collagen can be very useful in palaeodietary reconstructions provided that basic rules are followed while selecting samples of coeval fauna, in order to establish the end members of different food resources. Significant progress investigating the evolution of subsistence strategies in fossil hominids is expected from a combination of zooarchaeological and isotopic data
Neanderthal--modern human competition?; A comparison between the mammals associated with M...
John R Stewart
178 - 189
the hypothesis that extinction of the Neanderthals was due to interspecific competition with modern humans is tested using the faunas accompanying Upper and Middle Palaeolithic archaeology in Europe dating to OIS 3 and the start of OIS 2 (60--20 ka BP). The issue is also considered in the light of ecological theory, controlled experiments and field studies of competition between congeneric species. The paper concludes that competition between modern humans and Neanderthals is not easily demonstrated and that if it did exist it need not have caused Neanderthal extinction
Eat what is there: hunting and gathering in the world of Neanderthals...
Ofer Bar-Yosef
333 - 342
the current state of knowledge of Neanderthal hunting and gathering is reviewed, with particular emphasis on the transition from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic. It is argued that the zooarchaeological data do not support any general change in strategy during this transition, and that Middle and Upper Palaeolithic hunting and gathering was largely determined by what was available seasonally in the local environment