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Moving North: Archaeobotanical Evidence for Plant Diet in Middle and Upper Paleolithic Europe

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The Evolution of Hominin Diets

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This paper reviews the evidence for Middle and Upper Paleolithic plant foods in Europe and neighboring regions. Up until now, most research into the prehistory of plant foods has been conducted on Neolithic and post-Neolithic communities. In recent decades, that has been extended to explore preludes to agriculture and to connect contemporary ethnobotany with the recent archaeological record. The review conducted here shifts focus to the problems of Paleolithic human ecology itself and the challenge of acquiring sufficient plant foods in the novel environments that the first generations of humans crossed and colonized.

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Jones, M. (2009). Moving North: Archaeobotanical Evidence for Plant Diet in Middle and Upper Paleolithic Europe. In: Hublin, JJ., Richards, M.P. (eds) The Evolution of Hominin Diets. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9699-0_12

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