Neanderthal and Mammuthus interactions at EDAR Culebro 1 (Madrid, Spain)

Yravedra, José; Panera, Joaquín; Rubio‐Jara, Susana; Manzano, Iván; Expósito, Alfonso; Pérez‐González, Alfredo; Soto, Eumenio Ancochea; López-Recio, Mario

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.11.011

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“…Mousterian faunal assemblages of southern regions are commonly composed of cervids, bovids, and equids (Pérez Ripoll, ; Martínez Valle, ; Fiore et al, ; Valensi and Psathi, ; Brown et al, ; Blasco and Fernández Peris, ; Daujeard et al, ; Rosell et al, ; Salazar‐García et al, 2013). The exploitation of dangerous taxa is evidenced by cut marks and processing activities on several species including straight‐tusked elephants at Ambrona (MIS 9; Villa et al, ), Aridos 1 (MIS 9; Soto, ), Bolomor Cave layer XII (MIS 8; Blasco and Fernández Peris, ) and Arriaga IIa (MIS 6; Rus and Vega Toscano, ); mammoths at Edar Culebro 1 (MIS 6/5; Yravedra et al, ) and Preresa (MIS 5; Yravedra et al, ); cave bears at Fate Cave (MIS 5) and Madonna dell' Arma (MIS 5) and brown bears at Manie Cave (Valensi and Psathi, ); lions in Gran Dolina TD10‐1 (MIS 9) (Blasco et al, ); and Iberian dholes in Cova Negra (MIS 5d‐b; Pérez Ripoll et al, ).…”

Section: Technological and Zooarchaeological Evidencementioning

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To meat or not to meat? New perspectives onNeanderthal ecology

Fiorenza

Benazzi

Henry

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American J Phys Anthropol

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Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage analyses and stable isotope studies: methods that tend to underestimate plant consumption and overestimate the intake of animal proteins. Several studies in fact demonstrate that there is a physiological limit to the amount of animal proteins that can be consumed: exceeding these values causes protein toxicity that can be particularly dangerous to pregnant women and newborns. Consequently, to avoid food poisoning from meat-based diets, Neanderthals must have incorporated alternative food sources in their daily diets, including plant materials as well. In this manuscript, we review traditional as well as more recent approaches for reconstructing the diet in past human populations, and we show how new archaeological discoveries and innovative methods are changing our views of Neanderthal ecology and behavior. We further underline the importance of reconstructing Neanderthal environments derived from palaeoecological data to better understand and interpret the dietary evidence obtained by these methods. Finally, since the intake of specific foods can be invisible to certain techniques and detect by others, we suggest using a more holistic approach by integrating the findings of more than one method. Such comprehensive analyses would enable the reconstruction of the whole dietary spectrum, which is particularly important for species like Neanderthal, who lived under severe and unstable climatic conditions. Neanderthals are undoubtedly the most studied and best-known group in the human fossil record. Despite that, for more than 100 years since their discovery, research on Neanderthal ecology, subsistence strategies, and diet have received remarkably little attention (Ready, 2010). It is only with the emergence of new archeological disciplines and development of innovative analytical approaches in the 1960s, that scholars began to look at Neanderthal behavior and adaptations to their environment. Methods such as faunal analysis, lithic technology, and taphonomic studies progressively led to a general portrait that defined Neanderthals as a homogenous group, with similar nutritional needs typified by a reliance on the consumption of terrestrial animals. This idea was reinforced by the study of stable isotopes and Neanderthal anatomy. The general robusticity of Neanderthal skeletons, with relatively short limbs and heavy trunks, has been interpreted as adaptation to cold stress environments that follow the ecogeographic principles of Bergmann's and Allen's rules (e.g., Trinkaus,

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confidence: 99%

To meat or not to meat? New perspectives onNeanderthal ecology

Fiorenza

Benazzi

Henry

et al. 2014

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Dentro del repertorio lítico no se detectan apenas útiles retocados sobre lasca, si bien se evidencian fases de talla lítica en el lugar, ya que se han registrado restos de talla, debrises y lascas de reavivado (Manzano et al, 2011b). Desde el punto de vista tafonómico se detectó la presencia de patrones de fracturación en fresco y trampling en algunos huesos de macromamíferos que indican un aprovechamiento antrópico (Panera et al, 2014;Yravedra et al, 2014).…”

Section: Edar Culebrounclassified

La secuencia cronocultural de la ocupación paleolítica en el valle inferior del río Manzanares (Madrid, España)

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Silva

2018

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“…En la tabla 1 hemos considerado aquellos sitios excavados estos últimos años como Preresa (Yravedra et al 2012), Edar Culebro (Yravedra et al 2013b), Arroyo Culebro y Arriaga (Panera et al 2014). En Preresa se han encontrado huesos de proboscidios con marcas de corte y marcas de percusión (Yravedra et al 2012) y en Edar Culebro se ha observado un húmero con fracturas en fresco de posible origen antrópico que sugieren una fracturación intencional para acceder al tuétano (Yravedra et al 2013b). Además del aprovechamiento de estos animales, en sitios como Arriaga otros animales como los grandes bóvidos han mostrado algunas marcas de corte y en Estanque Tormentas, además de los bóvidos, también las presentan los cérvidos y équidos.…”

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La explotación de recursos animales durante el Paleolítico medio en el interior de la Península Ibérica = Animal resource explotation during the Middle Paleolithic in Inland Iberia

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2015

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ResumenEn los últimos años se ha puesto de manifiesto que los neandertales explotaron un rango de especies muy amplio. Diversos animales independientemente de su tamaño o su nicho ecológico fueron explotados, así proboscidios, ungulados de diversas tallas, carnívoros, pequeños mamíferos como los lagomorfos, reptiles, aves y peces presentan evidencias de haber sido aprovechados por estos seres humanos. Esta gran variabilidad de recursos es un ejemplo de la versatilidad neandertal. En este trabajo hemos tratado de reflejar esta adaptabilidad a través de una revisión de las evidencias zooarqueológicas y tafonómicas descritas en los yacimientos musterienses del interior de la Península Ibérica, tomando como referencia aquellos lugares situados en la meseta correspondientes a los estadios isotópicos 5-3. Palabras ClaveNeandertales; Paleolítico Medio; Península Ibérica; Subsistencia; Caza. AbstractNeanderthals have recently been found to have exploited a rather wide range of species. Regardless of size or habitat, many animals were consumed, from proboscidians, ungulates of different size and carnivores, to small mammals such as lagomorphs or even reptiles, birds and fish. All these species present evidence of having been intervened by this hominines. This large variety of resources is an example of Neanderthal versatility. This paper discusses this adaptive behavior in a revision of the zooarcheological and taphonomic evidence found in Mousterian sites in inland Iberia, particularly the ones located in the northern and southern plateau for the 5-3 isotopic stages.

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Neanderthal and Mammuthus interactions at EDAR Culebro 1 (Madrid, Spain)

Cited by 35 publications

References 42 publications

To meat or not to meat? New perspectives onNeanderthal ecology

To meat or not to meat? New perspectives onNeanderthal ecology

La secuencia cronocultural de la ocupación paleolítica en el valle inferior del río Manzanares (Madrid, España)

La explotación de recursos animales durante el Paleolítico medio en el interior de la Península Ibérica = Animal resource explotation during the Middle Paleolithic in Inland Iberia

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