What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe
| Autor: | Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Alicia Sanz-Royo |
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| Přispěvatelé: | MarÍN‐Arroyo, Ana B [0000-0003-3353-5581], Sanz‐Royo, Alicia [0000-0002-5275-5996], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Universidad de Cantabria |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Special Issue Articles
Vasco‐Cantabrian region 010506 paleontology 3705 Geology 01 natural sciences Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) MIS3 4301 Archaeology Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) 0601 history and archaeology 4303 Historical Studies Archaeozoology 43 History Heritage and Archaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Neanderthals 060101 anthropology Paleontology Subsistence agriculture Special Issue Article 37 Earth Sciences 06 humanities and the arts 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience Archaeology Geography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Quaternary Science, (2022) 37(2) 320-334 UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria Universidad de Cantabria (UC) |
| DOI: | 10.17863/cam.70186 |
| Popis: | Recent research in northern Spain has revealed the disappearance of Neanderthal populations in the Vasco Cantabrian region a few millennia earlier than in eastern and southern Iberia and discovered a short period of overlap with modern humans, at least, in terms of radiocarbon dates. However, the causes of Neanderthal decline understood as a regional and temporal process remain open. Despite the abundance of technological studies, modern?quality chronological dating, and the availability of archaeofaunal and palaeoenvironmental data, there is a lack of consensus about how climatic and environmental conditions could have affected ungulate prey and, therefore, Neanderthal subsistence strategies. In this paper, an analytical summary of the archaeofaunal and taphonomic data available for the Vasco?Cantabrian region, combined with the most recent chronological evidence, present general knowledge about animal biogeography and ecology during the Middle?Upper Palaeolithic transition, and provides an interpretation of the behaviour of both human species in the region. This work reviews the palaeomammal community of animals represented in the record as exploited by human groups in several caves and rock shelters and pointing to continuing lacunae in knowledge. Further research is needed to verify and potentially explain the apparent hominin population gap and the ultimate fate of the Neanderthals This research is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement No. 818299‐ SUBSILIENCE project (https://www.subsilience.eu) and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (ABRUPT ‐ HAR2017‐84997‐P) to ABMA. ASR's PhD is supported within the SUBSILIENCE project. The authors would like to thank J. García Sanchez (Instituto de Arqueología‐ Merida, CSIC‐Junta de Extramadura) for technical assistance with catchment areas analysis and Figs. 1, 5 and 6. Special thanks to L. Agudo (EvoAdapta‐University of Cantabria) for her technical assistance and G. Terlato for comments on the final version of the manuscript. The authors wish to acknowledge L. Straus for editing the manuscript and for his suggestions to improve this manuscript, as kind and effective as always. |
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