Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Recent years have seen a rise in cross-disciplinary research into the Late Pleistocene from across Europe including paleogenomics, stable isotopes, remote sensing, and paleoproteomics. These techniques sit alongside traditional paleoanthropological and archaeological methodologies where the fusion of traditional and novel approaches leads to new and cutting-edge research. The Late Pleistocene is a crucial period for understanding biocultural interactions, movement, and population dynamics between Neanderthals and modern humans, as well as interesting and, at the moment, still poorly understood aspects of various Upper Paleolithic peoples. These new techniques, combined with standard archaeological approaches, are particularly well suited to addressing questions about how, when, and perhaps why these groups may have interacted, as well as when and where certain cultural innovations appeared.
Other Keywords
Paleolithic •
Zooarchaeology •
ancient DNA •
Caves and Rockshelters •
Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers •
Dating •
Paleoenvironment •
Lithics •
Bones •
Experimental Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
Principality of Monaco (Country) •
Kingdom of Spain (Country) •
Principality of Andorra (Country) •
Portuguese Republic (Country) •
Isle of Man (Country) •
Republic of Bulgaria (Country) •
Europe (Continent) •
Romania (Country) •
Republic of Serbia (Country) •
Republic of Moldova (Country)
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Ancient DNA Analyses and the Human Population of Western Europe during and after the Last Glacial Maximum: Major Contributions from El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain) (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pioneering genomic analyses of bone and dental calculus from the 19,000-year-old Magdalenian “Red Lady” skeleton in El Mirón Cave, along with DNA from other Late Upper Paleolithic human remains provide critical information supporting the archeologically based theory of human range southward contraction and northward...
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Combining Strontium and Sulphur Isotope Analysis to Reconstruct Paleolithic Reindeer Mobility (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding the movement patterns of past animals is key to unravelling Paleolithic hunter-gatherer mobility and landscape use. Strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) has long been used as a proxy for provenance studies based on the high correlation between strontium values in faunal tissues and underlying lithology....
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Digital Imaging and Geophysical Prospection Techniques at Paleolithic Cave and Rockshelter Sites in Croatia (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Conducting archaeological investigations in cave and rockshelters presents researchers with multiple unique challenges as compared to typical open-air sites. Reduced space, low light, and complex stratigraphic sequences are frequently the norm. Additionally, the nature of limestone cave walls and floors is an undulating,...
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Human Occupation of the Central Balkans during the Last Glacial Maximum: Recent Results from Serbia (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), or Marine Isotope Stage 2, produced some of the most extraordinary environmental challenges faced by Homo sapiens during the Pleistocene. Large parts of temperate and subarctic Eurasia were depopulated, as humans retreated to areas with relatively favorable conditions. Although the Balkans...
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Integrating Neandertal Legacy: From Past to Present (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2020, a four year Action, entitled Integrating Neandertal Legacy: From Past to Present (iNEAL) (CA19141) financed through the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), started. The Action is aimed at assessing and addressing biases in Neandertal legacy and creating a pan-European (and wider) network of...
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North of the Wall: Archaeo-ecological Approaches to Scotland’s elusive Paleolithic Past (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For more than a century, Paleolithic Scotland was missing from the textbooks, presumed nonexistent. A low-density of archaeological finds was compounded by a research tradition that persistently excluded the possibility of human settlement at the extreme edge of north-west Europe prior to the Holocene, a situation at odds...
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Paleolithic in Azerbaijan: Research History, Finds, and Dating (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Soviet archaeologists believed there was no Old Stone Age in Azerbaijan. However, as a result of the research of M. Huseynov, it was revealed that humans inhabited the territory of Azerbaijan during the Paleolithic period. The research conducted in the Damjili and Dashsalahli caves...
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Paleoproteomic Approach to Understanding Human Subsistence at the Late Upper Paleolithic Site of Ljubiceva Pecina (Istria, Croatia) (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The region of Istria, today the largest Croatian peninsula, was a part of the Great Po region during the Late Pleistocene and therefore a big part of an intricate, now largely changed, ecosystem. The site of Ljubićeva pećina is one of many caves that played an important role for hunter-gatherer communities gravitating to...
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Reconstructing Climate and Environment in Paleolithic Western Iberia: A Stable Isotopic Study of Organic Remains at Lapa do Picareiro (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Portuguese Estremadura (central Portugal), is an understudied region in Paleolithic research with several key Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites that have provided important information on human lifeways in westernmost Europe during the Late Pleistocene. One of these is Lapa do Picareiro, a rare type of site on the Iberian...
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The Role of Transferable Techniques in the Process of Innovation in the Paleolithic (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will evaluate the role of transferable techniques in Paleolithic technical innovations. I shall consider the interlocking technical aspects of mastic, ceramic, ground food, and pigment production, together with the technical overlaps in working wood and osseous materials. In addition, I shall consider the...
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Sedimentary DNA Displays the Upper Paleolithic Human-Carnivore Interface in El Mirón Cave (Spain) (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Humans and carnivores competed for the same ecological niche during the Paleolithic, including caves used as shelters that they even alternately occupied in many cases. Through the presence of archeological material, including animal bones, we can assess the human occupation periods and their intensity. Iberia represents one...
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Uncertainty Specialists: A Diversity of Late Upper Paleolithic Adaptations in the Dinaric Alps (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper looks at the results of recent research at several late Upper Palaeolithic sites in the area of the Dinaric Alps within the Eastern Adriatic catchment zone in present-day Montenegro and Herzegovina. For the first time in this region, a long-term persistence of the phenomenon of broad spectrum dietary strategy...