Bears and humans, a Neanderthal tale. Reconstructing uncommon behaviors from zooarchaeological evidence in southern Europe

Neanderthal Subsistence Behaviours in Europe

Ten years of research about the Neanderthal’s subsistence behaviour are presented. The study of large mammal bones is now recognized as a means of understanding subsistence behaviour (sensu lato), notably by analysing acquisition and processing strategies, as well as patterns of consumption. This paper summarizes the results of an analysis of a corpus of data from several European countries, re...

Neanderthal and Denisovan retroviruses in modern humans

distribution of the surrounding downwelling light. Deep-sea fishes that have instead evolved to detect bioluminescent point sources have eyes constructed accordingly, typically having a high spatial resolution provided by a retinal area of tightly packed visual cells arranged in a deep pit-like fovea. Their eyes, though, are often quite small, with pupils only as large as necessary to detect po...

Reconstructing lives--a tale of two soldiers.

n engl j med 355;25 www.nejm.org december 21, 2006 2609 knowing they’re out there — and even more, he savors the silence. Pepper, who was blinded by a bomb in Iraq in 2004, completed a rehabilitation program for blind veterans last year at the Edward Hines, Jr., Veterans Affairs Hospital in Illinois, learning to find his way using a cane and a personal global positioning system (GPS) device. Wi...

Neanderthal diet at Vindija and Neanderthal predation: the evidence from stable isotopes.

Archeological analysis of faunal remains and of lithic and bone tools has suggested that hunting of medium to large mammals was a major element of Neanderthal subsistence. Plant foods are almost invisible in the archeological record, and it is impossible to estimate accurately their dietary importance. However, stable isotope (delta(13)C and delta(15)N) analysis of mammal bone collagen provides...

Panel Causality Relationship Among FDI And Trade (Evidence From 16 Advanced Europe Countries)