Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neandertal Ecology
- ISBN-10
- 0691034567
- ISBN-13
- 9780691034560
- Series
- Honor Among Thieves
- Category
- Animal remains (Archaeology)
- Pages
- 447
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Author
- Mary C. Stiner
Description
Mary Stiner uses ecological niche theory to analyze and interpret several Middle Paleolithic archaeological and paleontological sites in southern Europe. Her concern is with how the hunting, scavenging and foraging behavior of Neandertals compared and contrasted with the subsistence behavior of other large predators living in the region at the time--lions, hyenas, and wolves, for example--and with how Neandertal subsistence behavior related to the behavior of the anatomically modern humans who subsequently came to dominate the area in the Upper Paleolithic. Her conclusion, very broadly stated, is that Neandertals entered the Middle Paleolithic in direct and successful competition with lions, hyenas, and wolves, but ended the period in direct and ultimately unsuccessful competition for the ecological niche that we came to occupy with our slightly more advanced technology and slightly more sophisticated ambush hunting strategies and techniques.
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