Paleoeconomía y subsistencia durante el Pleistoceno medio en el sur de Iberia : zooarqueología y tafonomía de la cueva del Ángel (Lucena, Córdoba) /
Traditionally, Middle Pleistocene pre-Neanderthal societies have often been characterized as underdeveloped, with highly rigid and static subsistence strategies focused on acquiring monospecific prey of large herbivores and regular scavenging. However, during the latter half of the Middle Pleistocen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Oxford, UK :
BAR Publishing,
2024.
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| Series: | BAR international series ;
3163. |
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| Summary: | Traditionally, Middle Pleistocene pre-Neanderthal societies have often been characterized as underdeveloped, with highly rigid and static subsistence strategies focused on acquiring monospecific prey of large herbivores and regular scavenging. However, during the latter half of the Middle Pleistocene, with the emergence of fire use in Mediterranean Europe, a shift towards more flexible and dynamic strategies, reminiscent of anatomically modern humans, occurred. The Cave of the Angel (Lucena, Spain) exemplifies this trend, revealing through zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis an intricate mechanism of economic amplification. This mechanism, combining traditional subsistence strategies with innovative ones, likely played a crucial role in maintaining social cohesion within the group and balancing risk factors. Over thousands of years, these human groups in southern Europe demonstrated resilience and adaptability in the face of significant climatic variability between 350,000 and 100,000 years ago. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 331 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-331). |
| ISBN: | 1407361295 9781407361291 |