I need to discover the actors of ecosystem where Neanderthal lived, in order to better understand his role in that ecosystem. Datation near -40ka are preferred. I can use reviews that list the bone faunal remains, for example into caves or similar.
Hi, you can take a look at these two articles and their references, I think they may be useful for your research:
Article Human choices and environmental constraints: Deciphering the...
Article Ungulate biomass fluctuations endured by Middle and Early Up...
Don't just consider large game, there were other important component in Neandertal diets. Of course, good evidence for plant foods are both harder to identify and often ignored.
2011 Henry, A. G., A. S. Brooks, and D. R. Piperno. Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar IIIm Iraq: Spy I and III, Belgium). Proceedings of the National Academy. of Sciences 108 (2): 486-491.
But in addition to the emphasis in research on larger body-sized animals, small game and invertebrates also should be considered, both for dietary and environmental reconstruction.
2014 Buck, L. T. and C. B. Stringer. Having the stomach for it:a contribution to Neanderthal diets? Quaternary Science Reviews 96: 161-167.
2000 Richards, M. P., P. B. Pettit, E. Trinkaus, F. H. Smith, M Paunovic, and I. Karavanic. Neanderthal diets at Vindija and Neanderthal predation: the evidence from stable isotopes. Proceedings of the National Academy. of Sciences 97 (13): 7663-7666.
2005 Bocherens, H., D. Drucker, D. Billion, M. Patou-Mathis, and B. Vendermeersch. Isotopic evidence for diet and subsistence pattern of the Saint-Cesaire I Neanderthal: review and use of multi-source mixing model. Journal of Human Evolution 49 (1): 71-87.
2006 Balter, V. and L. Simon. diet and behavior of the Saint-Cesaire Neanderthal inferred from biochemical data inversion. Journal of Human Evolution 51 (4) 329-338.
2008 Richards, M. P. and R. W, Schmitz. Isotope evidence for the diet of the Neanderthal type specimen. Antiquity 82 (317): 553-559.
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2009 Hublin J.-J., D Weston, P. Gunz, M. Richards, W. Roebrorks, J. Glimmerveen, and L. Anthonis. Out of the North Sea: the Zeeland Ridges Neanderthal. Journal of Human Evolution 57 (6): 775-785.
2011 Dusseldorp. G. L. Studying Pleistocene Neanderthal and eve hyena dietary habits: combining isotopic and archeozoological analyses. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 18 (3): 224-255.
2011 Cortez-Sanchez, M., A, Morales-Muniz, M. D. Simon-Vallejo, M. C. Lozano-Francisco, J. L. Vera-Pelaez, C. Finlayson, J. Rodriguez-Vidal, A Delgado-Huertas, F. J. Jimenez-Espejo, F. Martinez-Ruiz, and M. A. Martinez-Aguirre. Earliet known use of marine resources by Neanderthals. PLoS ONE 6 (9): e24026.
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2005 Guthrie, R. D. The Nature of Paleolithic Art. Chicago university Press, Chicago. (mention of possible depictions of insects, the larvae of parasitic warble fly who commonly prey on reindeer and are used as food bty modern etnographically recoded groups).
1999 Hewitt, G.M. Post-glacial re-colonization of Eupean biota. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 28 (4): 247-284
1994 Vaisanen, R. and K, Heliovaara. Hot spots of insect diversity on Northern Europe. Annales Zoologici Fennici 31 (1) 71-81.
2014 de Pablo, J. F.-L., E Badal, C. F. Garcia, A Martinez-Orti, and A. S. Serra. Land snails as a diet diversification proxy during the early upper Paleolithic in Europe. PLoS ONE 9 (8): e104898.
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