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García-Moreno, Alejandro et al. (Eds.): Human behavioural adaptations to interglacial lakeshore environments, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2020 (RGZM – Tagungen, Volume 37). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.647

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Alejandro García-Moreno (Ed.), Jarod M. Hutson (Ed.), Geoff M. Smith (Ed.), Lutz Kindler (Ed.), Elaine Turner (Ed.), Aritza Villaluenga (Ed.), Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (Ed.)

Human behavioural adaptations to interglacial lakeshore environments

RGZM – Tagungen

During the course of human evolution, we have successfully adapted to various climates and habitats. Interglacial environments, in particular, offer an excellent opportunity to study these adaptations. On the north European plain, interglacials often correlate with the flooding of basins, resulting in the appearance of lacustrine landscapes. These environments exhibit remarkable ecological diversity with highly concentrated and predictable resources. Numerous  archaeological sites from the Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic are preserved in these lacustrine landscapes, providing rich sources of potential data. Many of these archaeological sites are well-known as locations for the procurement and butchering of animals, lithic provisioning, gathering vegetal and collecting aquatic resources by humans. These sites are embedded in wetland deposits with favourable conditions for the preservation of organic and botanical remains and are thus exceptional archives for detailed analyses of human adaptations to changing, dynamic environments. In a diachronous perspective from the Middle Pleistocene to the Holocene, the current anthology collates studies on differing aspects of interglacial archaeological lakeland sites, illustrating human survival strategies under similar environmental conditions through the ages. This volume contributes to a core research theme “Human behavioural strategies in interglacial environments” of the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution (RGZM) (Neuwied, Germany). The aim of the research is to undertake a holistic and diachronic analysis of survival strategies under similar environmental parameters, in order to document the evolution of hominin subsistence behaviour and to gauge whether certain subsistence adaptations arose in direct response to distinct environmental conditions.

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Alejandro García-Moreno, Jarod M. Hutson, Geoff M. Smith, Lutz Kindler, Elaine Turner, Aritza Villaluenga, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
Human behavioural adaptations to interglacial lakeshore environments: an introduction
1-4
Monika Brasser
Big questions for big bones – Evaluating the extent of human influence at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Bilzingsleben
5-29
Daniel Groß
Islands in the Swamp. Lakescape-reconstructions of Mesolithic sites in the Rhinluch area (Germany)
31-42
Jarod M. Hutson, Aritza Villaluenga, Alejandro García-Moreno, Elaine Turner, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
A zooarchaeological and taphonomic perspective of hominin behaviour from the Schöningen 13II-4 “Spear Horizon”
43-66
Lutz Kindler, Geoff M. Smith, Alejandro García-Moreno, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Eduard Pop, Wil Roebroeks
The last interglacial (Eemian) lakeland of Neumark-Nord (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany). Sequencing Neanderthal occupations, assessing subsistence opportunities and prey selection based on estimations of ungulate carrying capacities, biomass production and energ
67-104
Britt M. Starkovich, Nicholas J. Conard
What were they up against? Lower Palaeolithic hominin meat acquisition and competition with Plio-Pleistocene carnivores
105-130
Martin Street
Sub-aquatic disposal of butchering waste at the early Mesolithic site of Bedburg-Königshoven
131-150
Elaine Turner
Life at the palaeopond: a diachronic reconstruction of the Lower Palaeolithic interglacial site of Miesenheim I (Central Rhineland, Germany)
151-172
Markus Wild
“Antler Headdresses” and the Preboreal site of Bedburg-Königshoven: The beginning of Mesolithic behaviour in the Northern European Lowlands
173-189

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