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Landscape modification by Last Interglacial Neanderthals.
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- Shell game: Neanderthal use of the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) in the Last Interglacial landscape of Neumark-Nord (Germany).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Life histories of straight-tusked elephants from the Last Interglacial Neanderthal site of Neumark-Nord (~125 ka).Science advances · 2026Article
- Does re-wilding contribute to biodiversity conservation in Mediterranean cultural landscapes?Ambio · 2026Article
- Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago.Science advances · 2025Article
- A bioenergetic approach favors the preservation and protection of prey, not cooking, as the drivers of early fire.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Widespread evidence for elephant exploitation by Last Interglacial Neanderthals on the North European plain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Evidence for hunter-gatherer impacts on raven diet and ecology in the Gravettian of Southern Moravia.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Hunting and processing of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications for Neanderthal behavior.Science advances · 2023Article
- Organization of residential space, site function variability, and seasonality of activities among MIS 5 Iberian Neandertals.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Laboratory-based experimental research into the effect of diagenesis on heated bone: implications and improved tools for the characterisation of ancient fire.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene.PNAS nexus · 2022Article
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Abstract
Little is known about the antiquity, nature, and scale of Pleistocene hunter-gatherer impact on their ecosystems, despite the importance for studies of conservation and human evolution. Such impact is likely to be limited, mainly because of low population densities, and challenging to detect and interpret in terms of cause-effect dynamics. We present high-resolution paleoenvironmental and archaeological data from the Last Interglacial locality of Neumark-Nord (Germany). Among the factors that shaped vegetation structure and succession in this lake landscape, we identify a distinct ecological footprint of hominin activities, including fire use. We compare these data with evidence from archaeological and baseline sites from the same region. At Neumark-Nord, notably open vegetation coincides with a virtually continuous c. 2000-year-long hominin presence, and the comparative data strongly suggest that hominins were a contributing factor. With an age of c. 125,000 years, Neumark-Nord provides an early example of a hominin role in vegetation transformation.
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