Neanderthal hunting grounds: The case of Teixoneres Cave (Spain) and Pié Lombard rockshelter (France)
UZUNIDIS, Antigone
Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité [ArScAn]
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité [ArScAn]
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
BLASCO, Ruth
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
UZUNIDIS, Antigone
Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité [ArScAn]
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité [ArScAn]
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
BLASCO, Ruth
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
OCHANDO, Juan
Universidad de Murcia
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome] [UNIROMA]
Universidad de Murcia
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome] [UNIROMA]
ROSELL, Jordi
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
RUFÀ, Anna
Interdsciplinay Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour [ICArEHB]
De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie [PACEA]
Interdsciplinay Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour [ICArEHB]
De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie [PACEA]
RIVALS, Florent
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats = Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies [ICREA]
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Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social [IPHES-CERCA]
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats = Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies [ICREA]
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Article de revue
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Journal of Archaeological Science. 2024-05-29, vol. 168, p. 106007
Resumen en inglés
The study of Neanderthal-Environment interactions very often lacks precise data that match the chronogeographical frame of human activities. Here, we reconstruct Neanderthals' hunting grounds within three distinct habitats ...Leer más >
The study of Neanderthal-Environment interactions very often lacks precise data that match the chronogeographical frame of human activities. Here, we reconstruct Neanderthals' hunting grounds within three distinct habitats using dental microwear analysis combined with zooarchaeological data. The predation patterns toward ungulates are discussed in term of frequency (NISP/MNI) and potential meat intake (MAM). Unit IIIa of Teixoneres Cave (MIS 3, NE Spain) corresponds to a mosaic landscape, Unit IIIb was more forested, and, in the "Ensemble" II of Pié Lombard (MIS 4, SE France), forest cover dominated. At Pié Lombard, Neanderthals rely on a high diversity of taxa from closed and semi-open hunting grounds, mostly two ungulate species as well as rabbits and several bird taxa. At Teixoneres Cave, mainly open areas are exploited in summer with a predation mostly focused on large gregarious ungulates. The larger size of ungulate herds in open spaces may have allowed Neanderthals to restrict their subsistence behaviour only to very few species, in specific hunting strategies. In Unit IIIa, they do not appear to have made any selection within the most abundant species, while in Unit IIIb, they focused on aurochs and also opportunistically and heavily on newborn red deer. Neanderthal subsistence strategies seem, therefore, only partially linked to the hunting grounds they had access to. While it impacted the diversity of the prey they selected, Neanderthal groups were able to develop distinct hunting strategies within similar environments.< Leer menos
Palabras clave en inglés
Subsistence strategies
Dental microwear
Habitats
Herbivores
Prey
Ungulates
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