Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins

1. Introduction: Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins
Jamie L. Clark, John D. Speth

2. Exploring the Relationship Between Climate Change and the Decline of the Howieson’s Poort at Sibudu Cave (South Africa)
Jamie L. Clark

3. Middle Paleolithic Large-Mammal Hunting in the Southern Levant
John D. Speth

4. Middle Paleolithic Prey Choice Inferred from a Natural Pitfall Trap: Rantis Cave, Israel
Reuven Yeshurun

5. New Opportunities for Previously Excavated Sites: Paleoeconomy as a Human Evolutionary Indicator at Tabun Cave (Israel)
Ana B. Marín-Arroyo

6. New Contributions on Subsistence Practices during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic in Northern Spain
José Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros

7. Iberian Archaeofaunas and Hominin Subsistence during Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 3
Lawrence Guy Straus

8. Animal Exploitation Strategies during the Uluzzian at Grotta di Fumane (Verona, Italy)
Antonio Tagliacozzo, Matteo Romandini, Ivana Fiore, Monica Gala, Marco Peresani

9. A Diachronic Evaluation of Neanderthal Cervid Exploitation and Site Use at Pech de l’Azé IV, France
Laura Niven

10. Neanderthal to Neanderthal Evolution: Preliminary Observations on Faunal Exploitation from Mousterian to Châtelperronian at Arcy-sur-Cure
James G. Enloe

11. The Importance of Fish, Fowl and Small Mammals in the Paleolithic Diet of the Swabian Jura, Southwestern Germany
Nicholas J. Conard, Keiko Kitagawa, Petra Krönneck, Madelaine Böhme, Susanne C. Münzel

12. Neanderthals and Cave Hyenas: Co-existence, Competition or Conflict?
Gerrit L. Dusseldorp

13. Bone Grease Rendering in Mousterian Contexts: The Case of Noisetier Cave (Fréchet-Aure, Hautes-Pyrénées, France)
Sandrine Costamagno

14. Foraging Goals and Transport Decisions in Western Europe during the Paleolithic and Early Holocene
Eugène Morin, Elspeth Ready

Keywords: Social Sciences, Archaeology, Anthropology, Vertebrates, Ecology, Paleontology