Evidence of diverse animal exploitation during the Middle Paleolithic at Ghar-e Boof (southern Zagros)

Abstract Although Middle Paleolithic (MP) hominin diets consisted mainly of ungulates, increasing evidence demonstrates that hominins at least occasionally consumed tortoises, birds, leporids, fish, and carnivores. Until now, the MP zooarchaeological record in the Zagros Mountains has been almost ex...

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Main Authors: Mario Mata-González, Britt M. Starkovich, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45974-8