Neanderthals<i>versus</i>Modern Humans: Evidence for Resource Competition from Isotopic Modelling
Journal: International Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Year: 2011

During later MOIS3, in Europe two populations were present, autochthonous Neanderthals and modern humans. Ecological competition between these two populations has often been evoked but never demonstrated. Our aim is to establish whether resource competition occurred. In this paper, in order to examine the possibility of ecological competition between these two populations, 599 isotopic data were subjected to rigorous statistical treatment and analysis through mixing models. The aim of this paper