Gibraltar data are too sparse to inform on Neanderthal exploitation of coastal resources
Author(s) -
Richard G. Klein,
Teresa E. Steele
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.0809985106
Subject(s) - computational biology , proteomics , metagenomics , genomics , biology , microbiome , data science , neanderthal , transcriptome , evolutionary biology , computer science , bioinformatics , geography , genome , genetics , gene , gene expression , archaeology
Stringer et al. (1) report 149 mollusk shells, 5 seal bones, 3 dolphin bones, and 3 fish bones from Mousterian layers in 2 caves on Gibraltar. From this they argue that the Neanderthals had “focused coastal visits… repeated during particular times, possibly seasonal” (p. 14323) and that in this respect they surpassed …
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