How Early Humans Shaped Europe’s Scavenger Communities
New Study Examines the Role of Human Hunting in Late Pleistocene Ecosystems
Between 45,000 and 29,000 years ago, early human activity not only altered landscapes but also reshaped the complex web of interactions between scavengers and prey. A recent study, published in Quaternary Science Reviews1, suggests that the hunting behaviors of early Homo sapiens fundamentally changed the composition of scavenger guilds across Europe. La…
