Hunting and overhunting in the Levantine Late Middle Palaeolithic

Speth, John D.; Clark, Jamie L.

doi:10.3828/bfarm.2006.3.1

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“…The equivalent frequencies of crania and mandibles may mean that the skulls were roasted whole, with soft tissue effectively shielding the fresh bones and teeth from the flames and coals. The presence of fetal bones and the lack of deer antlers in the assemblages suggest that some of the hunting activities took place in late winter through early summer, when dietary fat would have been at a premium and myelin-covered nerve tissues of the head especially valuable food (33).…”

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Cooperative hunting and meat sharing 400–200 kya at Qesem Cave, Israel

Stiner

Barkai

Gopher

2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

209

111

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Zooarchaeological research at Qesem Cave, Israel demonstrates that large-game hunting was a regular practice by the late Lower Paleolithic period. The 400-to 200,000-year-old fallow deer assemblages from this cave provide early examples of prime-age-focused ungulate hunting, a human predator-prey relationship that has persisted into recent times. The meat diet at Qesem centered on large game and was supplemented with tortoises. These hominins hunted cooperatively, and consumption of the highest quality parts of large prey was delayed until the food could be moved to the cave and processed with the aid of blade cutting tools and fire.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cooperative hunting and meat sharing 400–200 kya at Qesem Cave, Israel

Stiner

Barkai

Gopher

2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

209

111

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“…This sustainability was not always given, however, as indicated by ungulate exploitation patterns at Kebara Cave (Israel) that show that Neanderthals occasionally overexploited some ungulate populations (Speth and Clark 2006). In addition, Neanderthals were the first Eurasian hominins to exploit small game (Villa and Lenoir 2009) and perhaps even some marine resources (Erlandson 2001;Stringer et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 97%

A Niche Construction Perspective on the Middle–Upper Paleolithic Transition in Italy

Riel‐Salvatore

2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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This paper presents an overview of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in Italy in light of recent research on the Uluzzian technocomplex and on the paleoecological context of the transition. Drawing on the realization that human niche construction can be documented in the pre-agricultural archaeological record, niche construction theory is used as a conceptual framework to tie together facets of the behavioral, biological, and ecological dimensions of the transition interval into formal models of their interaction over time and in diverse contexts. Ultimately, this effort shows how foragers of the transitional interval in the Italian peninsula were active agents in shaping their evolutionary history, with consequences of some adaptive systems being felt only much later and directing the forces responsible for the ultimate disappearance of the Mousterian and Uluzzian technocomplexes in favor of the proto-Aurignacian industry, the exact nature of which clearly appears to vary on a regional level. This paper builds on recent archaeological research that has used niche construction theory (NCT) to derive novel insights about prehistoric human adaptations and ecological legacies. It begins by presenting a discussion of one of the central question in anthropological archaeology-that of the disappearance of Neanderthals and Middle Paleolithic industries during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition to lay the groundwork on the potential interpretive benefits a niche construction perspective can bring to archaeological research focused on transitional intervals in

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“…En este contexto, la sorprendente diferencia del nivel 3 de Mazaculos podría ser interpretada como el resultado de una presión elevada sobre el medio, fruto de un desequilibrio alimenticio (Broughton 2002;Munro 1990Munro , 2004Speth 2006;Stiner 1994). …”

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Comportamiento económico de los últimos cazadores- recolectores y primeras evidencias de domesticación en el occidente de Asturias. La Cueva de Mazaculos II

Marín-Arroyo¹,

Morales²

2009

Trab. prehist.

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RESUMENEl estudio del comportamiento económico desarrollado por los últimos grupos de cazadores-recolectores del Mesolítico Cantábrico, fundamentalmente dominado por el abundante registro de la explotación del medio marino, cuenta con reducidas evidencias del consumo de mamífe-ros terrestres, en lo que supone una ruptura con la tendencia observada durante el Paleolítico Superior. Las causas de este cambio y su implicación en la demografía de la región se investigan en este trabajo mediante el análisis arqueozoológico y tafonómico detallado de la macrofauna del yacimiento de Mazaculos II (Ribadedeva, Asturias), un conchero que alberga uno de los depósitos fó-siles más importantes del período. Adicionalmente se presentan los primeros indicios de domesticación en el Cantábrico occidental. ABSTRACT

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Hunting and overhunting in the Levantine Late Middle Palaeolithic

Cited by 106 publications

References 141 publications

Cooperative hunting and meat sharing 400–200 kya at Qesem Cave, Israel

Cooperative hunting and meat sharing 400–200 kya at Qesem Cave, Israel

A Niche Construction Perspective on the Middle–Upper Paleolithic Transition in Italy

Comportamiento económico de los últimos cazadores- recolectores y primeras evidencias de domesticación en el occidente de Asturias. La Cueva de Mazaculos II

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