Climate-driven habitat shifts of high-ranked prey species structure Late Upper Paleolithic hunting.

ABSTRACT: Changing climates in the past affected both human and faunal population distributions, thereby structuring human diets, demography, and cultural evolution. Yet, separating the effects of climate-driven and human-induced changes in prey species abundances remains challenging, particularly during the Late Upper Paleolithic, a period marked by rapid climate change and marked ecosystem transformation. To disentangle the effects of climate and hunter-gatherer populations on animal prey species during the period, we synthesize disparate paleoclimate records, zooarchaeological data, and archaeological data using ecological methods and theory to test to what extent climate and anthropogenic impacts drove broad changes in human subsistence observed in the Late Upper Paleolithic zooarchaeological re

SUBMITTER: Yaworsky PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10015039 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature