Beschreibung:
Eugène Morin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University in Canada. He has published articles in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Geoarchaeology and PNAS and serves on the editorial board of Ethnobiology Letters.
Contributes to the debate about modern human origins by exploring the diets and foraging patterns of both Neandertals and early modern humans.
1. The research problem; 2. Human origins and the problem of Neandertals; 3. Foraging theory and the archaeological record; 4. Saint Césaire; 5. The fauna; 6. Taphonomy; 7. Seasonality; 8. Transport decisions and currency analysis; 9. Testing the hypotheses; 10. Diet breadth at the regional level; 11. An alternative look at the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition; 12. Concluding thoughts.