Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins (eBook)

Jamie L. Clark is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), and a research fellow at the Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologiem, Universität Tübingen (Germany). She received her BA in African and Middle Eastern History from Northwestern University (2002) and her MA (2004) and PhD (2009) in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of Michigan. John D. Speth is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He served as Director of the Museum of Anthropology from 1986 to 1989 and as the Museum’s Associate Director from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Speth completed his BA in Geology at the University of New Mexico (1965), and his MA (1968) and PhD (1971) in Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Speth studies hunter-gatherers, past and present, New World and Old World.

1.  Introduction: Zooarchaeology and Modern Human OriginsJamie L. Clark and John D. Speth2.  Exploring the Relationship Between Climate Change and the Decline of the Howieson’s Poort at Sibudu Cave (South Africa)Jamie L. Clark3.  Middle Paleolithic Large-Mammal Hunting in the Southern LevantJohn D. Speth4.  Middle Paleolithic Prey Choice Inferred from a Natural Pitfall Trap: Rantis Cave, IsraelReuven Yeshurun5.  New Opportunities for Previously Excavated Sites: Paleoeconomy as a Human Evolutionary Indicator at Tabun Cave (Israel)Ana B. Marín-Arroyo6.  New Contributions on Subsistence Practices during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic in Northern SpainJosé Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros7.  Iberian Archaeofaunas and Hominin Subsistence During Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 3Lawrence Guy Straus8.  Animal Exploitation Strategies During the Uluzzian at Grotta di Fumane (Verona, Italy)Antonio Tagliacozzo, Matteo Romandini, Ivana Fiore,Monica Gala, and Marco Peresani 9.  A Diachronic Evaluation of Neanderthal Cervid Exploitation and Site Use at Pech de l’Azé IV, FranceLaura Niven 10.  Neanderthal to Neanderthal Evolution: Preliminary Observations on Faunal Exploitation from Mousterian to Châtelperronian at Arcy-sur-CureJames G. Enloe11.  The Role of Fish, Fowl and Small Mammals in the Fauna of the Paleolithic Caves of the Swabian Jura, Southwestern GermanyNicholas J. Conard, Keiko Kitagawa, Petra Krönneck, Madelaine Böhme and Susanne C. Münzel12.  Neanderthals and Cave Hyenas: Co-existence, Competition or Conflict?Gerrit L. Dusseldorp13.  Bone Grease Rendering in Mousterian Contexts: The Case of Noisetier Cave (Fréchet-Aure, Hautes-Pyrénées, France)Sandrine Costamagno14.  Foraging Goals and Transport Decisions in Western Europe During the Paleolithic and Early HoloceneEugène Morin and Elspeth Ready