There is little surviving evidence for plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods
yet the evidence there is, clearly indicates the importance of plants in the diet, as medicines …

Evidence for plants rarely survives on Paleolithic sites, while animal bones and
biomolecular analyses suggest animal produce was important to hominin populations …

Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were the largest terrestrial mammals of
the Pleistocene, present in Eurasian landscapes between 800,000 and 100,000 years ago …

Little is known about the antiquity, nature, and scale of Pleistocene hunter-gatherer impact
on their ecosystems, despite the importance for studies of conservation and human …

Neanderthals hunted and butchered straight-tusked elephants, the largest terrestrial
mammals of the Pleistocene, in a lake landscape on the North European plain, 125,000 …

Animal resources have been part of hominin diets since around 2.5 million years ago, with
sharp-edged stone tools facilitating access to carcasses. How exactly hominins acquired …

We review palaeoenvironmental proxies and combinations of these relevant for
understanding hunter-gatherer niche construction activities in pre-agricultural Europe. Our …

Significant variability has been observed in the frequency of fire use over the course of the
Late Pleistocene at several Middle Paleolithic sites in southwest France. In particular …

The use of fire by early hominins is considered a significant technological and cultural
revolution. Recently, the study of fire use has been affected by a troublesome trend that …

It is widely known that traditional northern hunter–gatherers such as the Inuit included putrid
meat, fish, and fat in their diet, although the ubiquity and dietary importance of decomposing …