Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years

J Galway‐Witham, J Cole… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

The isotopic ecology of the mammoth steppe

DG Drucker - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The Mammoth Steppe was the dominant terrestrial biome of the Northern Hemisphere
during the late Pleistocene. It encompassed a nonanalog community of animals living in a …

The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene

M Ben‐Dor, R Sirtoli, R Barkai - American journal of physical …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

GM Smith, K Ruebens, EI Zavala… - Nature ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract Recent excavations at Ranis (Germany) identified an early dispersal of Homo
sapiens into the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Here we integrate results …

52,000 years of woolly rhinoceros population dynamics reveal extinction mechanisms

DA Fordham, SC Brown, E Canteri, JJ Austin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
The extinction of the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) at the onset of the Holocene
remains an enigma, with conflicting evidence regarding its cause and spatiotemporal …

A Neandertal dietary conundrum: Insights provided by tooth enamel Zn isotopes from Gabasa, Spain

K Jaouen, V Villalba-Mouco, GM Smith, M Trost… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
The characterization of Neandertals' diets has mostly relied on nitrogen isotope analyses of
bone and tooth collagen. However, few nitrogen isotope data have been recovered from …

Middle Paleolithic complex technology and a Neandertal tar-backed tool from the Dutch North Sea

MJLT Niekus, PRB Kozowyk, GHJ Langejans… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
We report the discovery of a 50,000-y-old birch tar-hafted flint tool found off the present-day
coastline of The Netherlands. The production of adhesives and multicomponent tools is …

First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals

G Russo, A Milks, D Leder, T Koddenberg… - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
Abstract During the Upper Paleolithic, lions become an important theme in Paleolithic art
and are more frequent in anthropogenic faunal assemblages. However, the relationship …

Climate-driven habitat shifts of high-ranked prey species structure Late Upper Paleolithic hunting

PM Yaworsky, ST Hussain, F Riede - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
Changing climates in the past affected both human and faunal population distributions,
thereby structuring human diets, demography, and cultural evolution. Yet, separating the …

The paleo-synanthropic niche: a first attempt to define animal's adaptation to a human-made micro-environment in the Late Pleistocene

C Baumann - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2023‏ - Springer
Synanthropic behavior, ie, the behavior of wild animals that benefit from a shared ecology
with humans, has existed long before the sedentarization of Homo sapiens during the …