Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

By J. Zilhão, D. Angelucci, Ernestina Badal-García, Francesco d'Errico, Floréal Daniel, Laure Dayet, K. Douka, T. Higham, M. Martínez-Sánchez, Ricardo Montes-Bernárdez and 7 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010

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Subfields: Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology

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In Anthropology

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2. Alfred Sanchis Serra
3. R. Power
4. A. Henry
5. Karenleigh A. Overmann
6. Curtis W. Marean
7. M. Walker
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2. Alfred Sanchis Serra
3. R. Power
4. A. Henry
5. Curtis W. Marean
6. M. Walker
7. V. Villaverde
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Citations in the corpus

• An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “Shells were collected and transported ~35 km by early modern humans at Qafzeh in the Levant (Bar-Yosef Mayer et al 2009), and ~60 km inland in Spain by Neanderthals (Zilhão et al 2010).”
• Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia (2013, background): “At the Murcian coastal site of Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo (55e42 ka: Walker et al., 2012) the tree pollen points to damp-temperate conditions (very different from present-day high levels of evaporo-transpiration with fewer than 200 mm of annual rainfall) because pines (Pinus nigra, Pinus h”
• Modeling Human Ecodynamics and Biocultural Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of Western Eurasia (2011, background): “Moreover, there is growing empirical evidence for increases in the diversity, complexity, and rates of change in socially-transmitted behaviors that span the Late Pleistocene in this region (Davies and Underdown 2006; d’Errico et al. 2003a,b; Hill 2009; Langley et al. 2008; Soffer 2009; Vanhaeren 20”
• Numerosity, Abstraction, and the Emergence of Symbolic Thinking (2012, background): “Provocatively, Zilhão et al. (2010) recently suggested that there were no cognitive differences between Neanderthals and H. sapiens about 50,000–30,000 years ago.”
• Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years (2019, background): “In addition, Zilhāo et al. (2010) report the use of perforated (~43 ka) marine shells that must have been transported ~60 km from Antón rockshelter and pigment‐ stained marine shells from Aviones Cave in the Iberian Peninsula.”
• Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “…of personal ornaments, with broadly accepted examples from sites such as Fumane, Quinçay, Cueva de los Aviones, Cueva Antón, Grotta del Cavallo, les Fieux, Klisoura 1, and Meged Rockshelter (e.g., Koumouzelis et al. 2001; Morin and Laroulandie 2012; Roussel and Soressi 2010; Zilhao et al. 2010).”