Neanderthals are most often portrayed as big game hunters who derived the vast majority of
their diet from large terrestrial herbivores while birds, fish and plants are seen as relatively …

This paper provides a background to Neanderthal presence in Western Mediterranean
Europe. Habitual tool-use underpinned human survival in late Early Pleistocene western …

The site of Payre (SE France) is presented as a case study to decipher possible changes in
subsistence and land-use strategies during the middle Pleistocene in Europe. This study …

This study of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from the Rhone Valley, in the South-East of
France, increases our understanding of Neanderthal subsistence strategies and modes of …

Diversity in the used bone found in the European Middle Paleolithic is very low, but bone
retouchers are the most abundant and the most common. This paper focuses on the detailed …

The technological innovation involving the controlled use of fire represents a decisive
change in human subsistence. Hearths and the spatial distribution patterns associated with …

The nature of the Lower–Middle Palaeolithic transition has been one of the most debated
questions in early Prehistory since the mid-20th century. The root of these debates lies …

Abstract The Middle Palaeolithic site of Payre in southeastern France yields abundant
archaeological material associated with fossil hominid remains. With its long sequence of …

Abstract The classic Mousterian Debate of the 1970s has recently been revived, as
researchers propose cultural, functional, and chronological interpretations for the …

There appears to be little doubt as to the existence of an intentional technological resolve to
produce convergent tools during the Middle Palaeolithic. However, the use of these pieces …