A view to a kill : investigating Middle Palaeolithic subsistence using an optimal foraging perspective / Gerrit Leendert Dusseldorp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dusseldorp, Gerrit Leendert, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neanderthals.

Paleolithic period--Europe.

Paleolithic period.

Hunting and gathering societies--Europe.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Europe--Antiquities.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In zijn boek "A view to a kill" presenteert Dusseldorp zijn onderzoek naar de kennisintensiteit van de foerageermethoden van Neanderthalers vanuit een evolutionair perspectief. Door analyse van botassemblages van Neanderthalers en deze te vergelijken met botassemblages van vindplaatsen van de holenhyena probeert hij inzicht te verwerven in de plaats van de Neanderthaler in de ecologie van de mammoetsteppe.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

1 Introduction

1.1 Research design

2 Neanderthal Biology

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Neanderthal evolution

2.3 Neanderthal distribution patterns

2.4 Neanderthal anatomy and adaptation

2.5 Neanderthal brains

2.6 Neanderthal dietary niche and its implications

2.7 Neanderthal lives

2.8 Concluding remarks

3 Neanderthal Archaeology

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Neanderthal mobility and the study of foraging behaviour

3.3 Neanderthal archaeozoology

3.4 Material culture

3.5 Other aspects of Neanderthal archaeology

3.6 Summary and Conclusion

4 Optimal foraging models and Neanderthal archaeology

4.1 Introduction

4.2 General assumptions and criticism

4.3 An example of an OFT model: The diet breadth model

4.4 Applications of diet breadth in the study of the Middle Palaeolithic

4.5 On reconstructing the model's parameters

4.6 Possible confounding factors in the archaeological record

4.7 Modelling Neanderthal diet breadth

4.8 Modelling hyena diet breadth

4.9 Summary and conclusion

5 Biache-Saint-Vaast

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The site

5.3 Dating

5.4 Stratigraphy and archaeological horizons

5.5 The stone artefacts

5.6 The bone assemblage

5.7 The environment

5.8 Applying OFT to Biache-Saint-Vaast

5.9 Discussion

5.10 Conclusion

6 Taubach

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The site

6.3 Dating

6.4 The archaeological finds

6.5 The bone collection

6.6 The environment

6.7 Applying OFT to Taubach

6.8 Discussion

6.9 Conclusion

7 Hyena foraging

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Hyena ecology

7.3 Hyena sites

7.4 Expectations for the study of Pleistocene hyenas

7.5 Case-studies

7.6 Discussion

7.7 Conclusion

8 Discussion

8.1 Application of the diet breadth model to archaeological data

8.2 Reconstructing the model's variables.

8.3 Modelling Neanderthals

8.4 This study

8.5 Application of OFT to Biache-Saint-Vaast and Taubach

8.6 The analysis in context

9 Conclusion

10 References

Dutch Summary

Acknowledgements

Curriculum vitae.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit van Leiden, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-187).

ISBN:

90-8890-165-1

OCLC:

844940425

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access