How Did Hominins Adapt to Ice Age Europe without Fire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7740561 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold L Dibble (0000-0003-1435-4208, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Aylar Abodolahzadeh (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Vera Aldeias (0000-0002-7680-182X, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Paul Goldberg (0000-0002-7059-1446, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Shannon J P Mcpherron (0000-0002-2063-468X, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Shannon P Mcpherron, Dennis Sandgathe (0000-0002-0998-7345, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Dennis M Sandgathe |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | S16 |
| Pages | S278-S287 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/692628 |
| OpenAlex | W2580928986 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 47 |
Analyses of archaeological material recovered from several Middle Paleolithic sites in southwest France have provided strong corroborating data on Neanderthal use of fire. Both direct and indirect data show that Neanderthals in this region were frequently and/or intensively using fire during warmer periods, but such evidence declines significantly in occupations that took place during colder periods. One possible explanation for this pattern is that it reflects the inability of Western European Neanderthals to make fire, simply because natural sources of fire occur much more frequently during warmer climatic periods. Regardless of the explanation, the long periods of diminished evidence of fire shows that, unlike modern humans, these hominins were not obligate fire users, and this fact in itself raises important questions of how they adapted, physiologically and/or technologically, to the generally harsh glacial conditions of the middle latitude of Europe and to reduced energy returns typical of raw food. As a corollary, it also raises questions regarding their need for and use of fire during the warmer periods
Archaeology · Biology · Fire regime · Geography · Glacial period · Middle Paleolithic · Mousterian · Natural (archaeology · Neanderthal · Obligate · Physical geography · Pleistocene · Upper Paleolithic · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Unique citing works | 42 |
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| Citations per year | 4,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |