I was recently interested in this question for the Middle Paleolithic. Here are a few notes,
but mostly from the Western Mediterranean. Does anyone else have any additional
information?
From Stiner 1994:
Grotta dei Moscerini, Italy (early MP; 0 km from present shore) -- NISP 4 in M5 - rich in
hyena remains - natural death, killed or scavenged by terrestrial carnivore
Grotta di Sant’ Agostino, Italy (late MP; 1.0 km from present shore) -- NISP 1 in S2 and 1
in SX [exterior trench] - 1 carpal with cut-mark
Stiner, M.C. 1994. Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neandertal
Ecology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
From Stringer et al. 2008:
Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar (MP)
2 monk seal bones with cut-marks
Stringer, C.B., J.C. Finlayson, R.N.E. Barton, Y. Fernández-Jalvo, I. Cáceres, R.C. Sabin,
E. Rhodes, A.P. Currant, J. Rodriguez-Vidal, F. Giles-Pacheco & J.A. Riquelme-Cantal.
2008. Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences 105: 14319-14324.
From Arambourg 1967:
Mugharet el 'Aliya, Morocco (MP)
Present in MP level but remains not located in more recent reanalysis
Arambourg, C. 1967. Appendix A. Observations sur la faune des Grottes d'Hercule près de
Tanger, Maroc, in Howe, B. (ed.) The Palaeolithic of Tangier, Morocco: Excavations at
Cape Ashakar, 1939-1947: 181-186 Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Peabody Museum.
In some Upper Paleolithic sites of Spain and France, their bones are present and they
appear in art work:
Cleyet-Merle, J.-J. & S. Madelaine. 1995. Inland evidence of human sea coast exploitation
in Palaeolithic Europe, in Fischer, A. (ed.) Man and Sea in the Mesolithic: Coastal
settlement above and below present sea level: 303-308 Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Corchón, M.S. & E. Álvarez-Fernández. 2008. Nuevas evidencias de restos de mamíferos
marinos en el Magdaleniense: los datos de la Cueva de Las Caldas (Asturias, España).
Munibe (Antropologia - Arkeologia) 59: 47-66.
Corchón, M.S., A. Mateos, E. Álvarez-Fernández, E. Peñalver, X. Delclòs & J. van der
Made. 2008. Ressources complémentaires et mobilité dans le Magdalénien cantabrique.
Nouvelles données sur les mammifères marins, les crustacés, les mollusques et les
roches organogènes de la Grotte de Las Caldas (Asturies, Espagne). L'Anthropologie 112:
284-327.
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