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Neanderthal hunting strategies inferred from mortality profiles within the Abric Romaní sequence

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dc.contributor.authorMarín Hernando, Juan
dc.contributor.authorSaladié Ballesté, Palmira
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez Hidalgo, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorCarbonell Roura, Eudald
dc.contributor.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1730-8461
dc.contributor.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5449-9287
dc.contributor.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-6306-3621
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-24T11:35:48Z
dc.date.available2024-06-24T11:35:48Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-22
dc.description.abstractUngulate mortality profiles are commonly used to study Neanderthal subsistence strategies. To assess the hunting strategies used by Neanderthals, we studied the ages at death of the cervids and equids found in levels E, H, I, Ja, Jb, K, L and M of the Abric Romaní sequence. These levels date between 43.2 ± 1.1 ka BP (C AMS) and 54.5 ± 1.7 ka BP (U-series). The degree of eruption and development of the teeth and their wear stages were used to determine the ages of these animals at death, and mortality profiles were constructed using these data. The equids display prime dominated profiles in all of the analyzed levels, whereas the cervids display variable profiles. These results suggest that the Neanderthals of Abric Romaní employed both selective and non-selective hunting strategies. The selective strategy focused on the hunting of prime adults and generated prime dominated profiles. On the other hand, non-selective strategies, involved the consumption of animals of variable ages, resulting in catastrophic profiles. It is likely that in the selective hunting events were conducted using selective ambushes in which it was possible to select specific prey animals. On the other hand, encounter hunting or non-selective ambush hunting may have also been used at times, based on the abundances of prey animals and encounter rates. Specific hunting strategies would have been developed accordance with the taxa and the age of the individual to be hunted. The hunting groups most likely employed cooperative hunting techniques, especially in the capture of large animals. Thus, it is not possible to uniquely associate a single mortality profile with the predation tactics of Neanderthals at Abric Romaní.en
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dc.identifier.citationMarín J, Saladié P, Rodríguez-Hidalgo A, Carbonell E (2017) Neanderthal hunting strategies inferred from mortality profiles within the Abric Romaní sequence. PLoS ONE 12(11): e0186970. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186970
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186970
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/22733
dc.journal.issue11
dc.journal.titlePLoS ONE
dc.journal.volume12
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final42
dc.page.initial1
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Geografía e Historia
dc.relation.departmentPrehistoria y Arqueología
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject55 Historia
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