Neanderthal settlement patterns in Crimea: A landscape approach

On Neanderthal subsistence strategies and land use: A regional focus on the Rhone Valley area in southeastern France

“…The present debate concerning behavioural differences between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans is based on their capacity to exploit a territory in an organised and planned manner (David and Enloe, 1993;Gamble, 1998;Texier et al, 1998Texier et al, , 2005Kolen, 1999;Roebroeks and Tuffreau, 1999;Gaudzinski, 2000a,b;Conard and Prindiville, 2000;Armand et al, 2001;Grayson and Delpech, 2002;Costamagno et al, 2006;Burke, 2004Burke, , 2006Rendu, 2007). Did these two human groups adopt different strategies in their modes of territorial organisation, i.e.…”

The Palaeolithic occupation of southern Alentejo: the Sado River Drainage Survey

“…Movement between the outcrops and to and from the lagoas and nearby river terraces would have been relatively easy as indicated by a cost surface analysis. Ease of travel and the presence of readily identifiable landmarks (which also constituted points of interest, i.e., sources of valuable raw material) make this part of southern Alentejo a particularly "legible" landscape (Burke 2006) -and therefore a relatively attractive one.…”

Paleoethology as a tool for the development of archaeological models of land-use: the Crimean Middle Palaeolithic

“…A consideration of the landscape within which Middle Palaeolithic people lived in Crimea indicates that the limestone ridge system comprising the Second and Third Crimean mountains was also a very legible environment (sensu Gollege, 2003), one that would have facilitated interactions between individuals living in an otherwise sparsely populated territory (Burke, 2006b). This argument can be incorporated into the model presented here as another factor explaining the apparent preferential distribution of archaeological sites along the escarpments of the Crimean Mountains.…”