Contrasting Neanderthal and modern human subsistence practices across Europe 50,000-40,000 years ago: an interdisciplinary approach to micro-scale taphonomy and BACterial bioerosion on BONE.

Project Information

BACBONE

Grant agreement ID: 101027850

DOI 10.3030/101027850

Project closed

EC signature date 23 February 2021

Start date 1 February 2022

End date 24 June 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 224 933,76

EU contribution € 224 933,76

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF KENT
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

A Neandertal dietary conundrum: Insights provided by tooth enamel Zn isotopes from Gabasa, Spain

Author(s): Jaouen, Klervia; Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa; Smith, Geoff, M; Trost, Manuel; Leichliter, Jennifer; Ejean, Pauline, M; Ephanie Mandrou, St; Chmeleff, Erôme; Guiserix, Dana, E; Bourgon, Nicolas; Blasco, Fernanda; Cardoso, Mendes; Duquenoy, Camille; Moubtahij, Zineb; Salazar Garcia, Domingo, C; Richards, Michael; Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Utrilla, Pilar; Montes, Lourdes; Piperno, Dolores, R
Published in: "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, ⟨10.1073/pnas.2109315119/-/DCSupplemental⟩", Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences

Identifying the unidentified fauna enhances insights into hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition

Author(s): Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, William Rendu, Teresa E. Steele, Rosen Spasov, Stéphane Madelaine, Sylvain Renou, Marie-Cécile Soulier, Naomi L. Martisius, Vera Aldeias, Elena Endarova, Paul Goldberg, Shannon J. P. McPherron, Zeljko Rezek, Dennis Sandgathe, Nikolay Sirakov, Svoboda Sirakova, Marie Soressi, Tsenka Tsanova, Alain Turq, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Frido Welker, Geoff M. Smith
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 15, 2023, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01830-4

Neanderthal subsistence, taphonomy and chronology at Salzgitter‐Lebenstedt (Germany): a multifaceted analysis of morphologically unidentifiable bone

Author(s): Karen Ruebens, Geoff M. Smith, Helen Fewlass, Virginie Sinet‐Mathiot, Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Frido Welker
Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science, Issue 38, 2023, Page(s) 471-487, ISSN 0267-8179
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3499

Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco

Author(s): Zineb Moubtahij, Jeremy McCormack, Nicolas Bourgon, Manuel Trost, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Benjamin T. Fuller, Geoff M. Smith, Heiko Temming, Sven Steinbrenner, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Elaine Turner, Klervia Jaouen
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 1035-1045, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02382-z

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

Author(s): Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Marcel Weiss, Helen Fewlass, Elena Irene Zavala, Hélène Rougier, Arev Pelin Sümer, Mateja Hajdinjak, Geoff M. Smith, Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Sarah Pederzani, Elena Essel, Florian S. Harking, Huan Xia, Jakob Hansen, André Kirchner, Tobias Lauer, Mareike Stahlschmidt, Michael Hein, Sahra Talamo, Lukas Wacker, Harald Meller, Holger Dietl, Jörg Orschiedt, J
Published in: Nature, Issue 626, 2024, Page(s) 341-346, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7

Comparing extraction method efficiency for high-throughput palaeoproteomic bone species identification

Author(s): Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Florian S. Harking, Alberto J. Taurozzi, Zandra Fagernäs, Ricardo M. Godinho, Geoff M. Smith, Marcel Weiss, Tim Schüler, Shannon P. McPherron, Harald Meller, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho, Jesper V. Olsen, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Frido Welker
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44885-y

Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

Author(s): Sarah Pederzani, Kate Britton, Manuel Trost, Helen Fewlass, Nicolas Bourgon, Jeremy McCormack, Klervia Jaouen, Holger Dietl, Hans-Jürgen Döhle, André Kirchner, Tobias Lauer, Mael Le Corre, Shannon P. McPherron, Harald Meller, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Jörg Orschiedt, Hélène Rougier, Karen Ruebens, Tim Schüler, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Geoff M. Smith, Sahra Talamo, Thomas Tütken, Frido Welker
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 578-588, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02318-z

Combining collagen extraction with mineral Zn isotope analyses from a single sample for robust palaeoecological investigations

Author(s): Jeremy McCormack; Nicolas Bourgon; Virginie Sinet-Mathiot; Zeljko Rezek; Geoff M. Smith; Jean-Jacques Hublin; Mohammed Dabain; Helen Fewlass
Published in: "Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2022, 14 (7), pp.137. ⟨10.1007/s12520-022-01601-7⟩", Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1866-9565
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-022-01601-7

Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)

Author(s): Naomi L. Martisius, Rosen Spasov, Geoff M. Smith, Elena Endarova, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Frido Welker, Vera Aldeias, Pedro Horta, João Marreiros, Zeljko Rezek, Shannon P. McPherron, Nikolay Sirakov, Svoboda Sirakova, Tsenka Tsanova, Jean-Jacques Hublin
Published in: Journal of Human Evolution, Issue 167, 2023, Page(s) 103198, ISSN 0047-2484
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103198

The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

Author(s): Geoff M. Smith, Karen Ruebens, Elena Irene Zavala, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Helen Fewlass, Sarah Pederzani, Klervia Jaouen, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Kate Britton, Hélène Rougier, Mareike Stahlschmidt, Matthias Meyer, Harald Meller, Holger Dietl, Jörg Orschiedt, Johannes Krause, Tim Schüler, Shannon P. McPherron, Marcel Weiss, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Frido Welker
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 564-577, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: online
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02303-6

Increasing sustainability in palaeoproteomics by optimizing digestion times for large-scale archaeological bone analyses

Author(s): Louise Le Meillour, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir, Jakob Hansen, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Gaudry Troché, Huan Xia, Jorsua Herrera Bethencourt, Karen Ruebens, Geoff M. Smith, Zandra Fagernäs, Frido Welker
Published in: iScience, Issue 27, 2024, Page(s) 109432, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109432

Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave

Author(s): Huan Xia, Dongju Zhang, Jian Wang, Zandra Fagernäs, Ting Li, Yuanxin Li, Juanting Yao, Dongpeng Lin, Gaudry Troché, Geoff M. Smith, Xiaoshan Chen, Ting Cheng, Xuke Shen, Yuanyuan Han, Jesper V. Olsen, Zhongwei Shen, Zhiqi Pei, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Fahu Chen, Frido Welker
Published in: Nature, Issue 632, 2024, Page(s) 108-113, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07612-9

The Late Middle Palaeolithic Occupation of Abri du Maras (Layer 1, Neronian, Southeast France): Integrating Lithic Analyses, ZooMS and Radiocarbon Dating to Reconstruct Neanderthal Hunting Behaviour

Author(s): Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Sahra Talamo, Geoff M. Smith, Frido Welker, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Shannon P. McPherron
Published in: Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 2520-8217
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s41982-022-00113-z