A matter of fat: Hunting preferences affected Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions and human evolution

M Ben-Dor, R Barkai - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The longstanding debate over human contribution to Pleistocene megafauna extinctions
motivates our examination of plausible hunting behaviors that may have impacted prey …

[HTML][HTML] Late quaternary proboscidean sites in Africa and Eurasia with possible or probable evidence for hominin involvement

G Haynes - Quaternary, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a list of> 100 publicly known late Quaternary proboscidean sites that
have certain or possible traces of hominin utilization in Africa, Europe, and Asia, along with a …

[HTML][HTML] The skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) and other large mammals from the Middle Pleistocene butchering locality Marathousa 1 …

GE Konidaris, A Athanassiou, V Tourloukis… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this article, we present the first results on the large mammal fauna from the new open-air
Lower Palaeolithic locality Marathousa 1 (MAR-1)(Megalopolis Basin, Peloponnesus …

[HTML][HTML] Lithic artifacts and bone tools from the Lower Palaeolithic site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: Preliminary results

V Tourloukis, N Thompson, E Panagopoulou… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The technological systems and subsistence strategies of Middle Pleistocene hominins in
South-East Europe are insufficiently understood due to the scarcity of well-preserved …

Life-history of Palaeoloxodon antiquus reveals Middle Pleistocene glacial refugium in the Megalopolis basin, Greece

E Roditi, H Bocherens, GE Konidaris, A Athanassiou… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The Balkans are considered a major glacial refugium where flora and fauna survived glacial
periods and repopulated the rest of Europe during interglacials. While it is also thought to …

Marathousa 2: A New Middle Pleistocene Locality in the Megalopolis Basin (Greece) with evidence of hominin exploitation of megafauna (Hippopotamus)

G Konidaris, V Tourloukis, G Boni… - …, 2023 - paleoanthropology.org
In this article we present the new open-air Middle Pleistocene locality Marathousa 2, which
was discovered during a double intensive and targeted field survey in the lignite mines of …

Life around the elephant in space and time: An integrated approach to study the human-elephant interactions at the late Lower Paleolithic site of La Polledrara di …

C Lemorini, E Santucci, I Caricola, A Nucara… - … Method and Theory, 2023 - Springer
Abstract During the Lower Paleolithic, the interaction between hominins and elephants
through the medium of lithic tools is testified by numerous sites in Africa, Europe, and Asia …

The importance of large prey animals during the Pleistocene and the implications of their extinction on the use of dietary ethnographic analogies

M Ben-Dor, R Barkai - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020 - Elsevier
Estimates of the human trophic level and dietary quality during the Paleolithic are the basis
for many hypotheses and interpretations regarding human evolution and behavior. We …

[HTML][HTML] The Late Early–Middle Pleistocene Mammal Fauna from the Megalopolis Basin (Peloponnese, Greece) and Its Importance for Biostratigraphy and …

GE Konidaris, A Athanassiou, V Tourloukis… - Quaternary, 2024 - mdpi.com
Recent investigations in the upper Lower–Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Megalopolis
Basin (Greece) led to the discovery of several sites/findspots with abundant faunal material …

[HTML][HTML] First record of Macaca (Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Middle Pleistocene of Greece

GE Konidaris, A Athanassiou, E Panagopoulou… - Journal of Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article, we describe an almost complete macaque mandible from the Middle
Pleistocene locality Marathousa 1 in the Megalopolis Basin of southern Greece. The …