Bernard Vandermeersch

TL;DR: This article reported thermoluminescence dates for 20 specimens of burnt flints recovered from the hominid-bearing layers of Qafzeh1 and Skhul2,3 caves in Israel have yielded the remains of over 30 hominids.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe structures spatiales de foyers, cendres, concentrations d'os and d'artefacts at the site du Paleolithique moyen de Kebara, Israel.

TL;DR: Values of known-diet fossil species demonstrate that these values have been preserved through fossilization processes, and that these fossil mammals can be used as ecological references to determine the Neandertal position in the past food web.

TL;DR: The high proportion of very large herbivores, such as woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth, in Neanderthal's diet compare to that of the scavenging hyaenas suggests that Neanderthals could not acquire these prey through scavenging, and points to a trophic position as top predator in an open environment, with little variation through time and space.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported that ther-moluminescence dates from 38 specimens of burnt flint recovered from 4 m of Kebara deposits range from about 60,000 to 48,000 years before present (BP), indicating that Neanderthals were present in the Levant in the latter part of the middle Palaeolithic.