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The Homo habitat niche: using the avian fossil record to depict ecological characteristics of Palaeolithic Eurasian hominins
Authors:Clive Finlayson  José Carrión  Kimberly Brown  Geraldine Finlayson  Antonio Sánchez-Marco  Darren Fa  Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal  Santiago Fernández  Elena Fierro  Marco Bernal-Gómez  Francisco Giles-Pacheco
Institution:1. Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR CNRS 5276, Université Lyon 1 et Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France;2. Biogéosciences, UMR CNRS 6282, Université de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France;3. Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA;4. Laboratoire d''Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, UMR CNRS 5199, Université Bordeaux 1, 33405 Cedex, Talence, France;5. EPHE-Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 21000 Dijon, France;6. Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France;1. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA;2. Archaeology Division, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, Norman, OK 73072-7029, USA;3. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA;4. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA;5. Florisbad Quaternary Research Department, National Museum, PO Box 266, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa;6. Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa;7. Department of Mammalogy, National Museum, PO Box 266, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa;8. Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA;11. Human Evolutionary Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
Abstract:Although hardly applied to human palaeoecology, bird fossils offer a unique opportunity for quantitative studies of the hominin habitat. Here we reconstruct the Homo habitat niche across a large area of the Palaearctic, based on a database of avian fauna for Pleistocene sites. Our results reveal a striking association between Homo and habitat mosaics. A mix of open savannah-type woodland, wetlands and rocky habitats emerges as the predominant combination occupied by Homo across a wide geographical area, from the earliest populations of the Lower Palaeolithic to the latest hunter-gatherer communities of the Upper Palaeolithic. This observation is in keeping with the view that such landscapes have had long standing selective value for hominins.
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