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Title: | To Meat or Not to Meat? New Perspectives on Neanderthal Ecology | Contributor(s): | Fiorenza, Luca (author); Benazzi, Stefano (author); Henry, Amanda G (author); Salazar-Garcia, Domingo C (author); Blasco, Ruth (author); Picin, Andrea (author); Wroe, Stephen (author) ; Kullmer, Ottmar (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1002/ajpa.22659 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16794 | Abstract: | Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage analyses and stable isotope studies: methods that tend to underestimate plant consumption and overestimate the intake of animal proteins. Several studies in fact demonstrate that there is a physiological limit to the amount of animal proteins that can be consumed: exceeding these values causes protein toxicity that can be particularly dangerous to pregnant women and newborns. Consequently, to avoid food poisoning from meat-based diets, Neanderthals must have incorporated alternative food sources in their daily diets, including plant materials as well. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | ARC/DP140102659 | Source of Publication: | Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 156(Supplement S59), p. 43-71 | Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 0096-848X | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160102 Biological (Physical) Anthropology | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440103 Biological (physical) anthropology 310999 Zoology not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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