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ERC Advanced Grant · 2022

Carnivores in human settlements: a new and different way to address the Middle Palaeolithic record

Anthropogenic sites are often the product of overlapped activities and/or occupations that also involve disruptive processes. The results are palimpsests with a disordered appearance that can confuse interpretations. The problem is worsened when some agents, such as carnivore scavengers, act on the archaeological record, causing the remains to disappear and leaving no obvious signs of their passage. This fact has important consequences for archaeological studies, especially when attempting to apply ethnographically derived theories constructed in high resolution temporal contexts. However, new interpretations that are more complete can overcome this problem if the behaviour of scavengers is…

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