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Understanding how climate change affected past environments and resource availability are vital for disentangling how ancient human populations adapted biologically and technologically. It is well-known that local and regional climatic and environmental changes affected the development of fundamental biological, cultural, and economic human behaviours between the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene. These periods are marked by critical transitions, such as the Middle to Upper Paleolithic, which documents the encounters of different human species and their specific technological adaptations, while the transition from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic attests to human resilience to postglacial changes.
In this session, the most recent advances in bioarchaeological science will be presented and discussed in relation to how they can obtain broader and higher-resolution data about past subsistence strategies, mobility, technological uses and applications, and local and regional climatic and ecological conditions. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions which combine vertebrate archaeozoology to technological and use-wear studies of material culture, the application of stable isotopes, dental macro/microwear and dental calculus analysis, proteomic and ancient DNA studies on humans and animal archaeological remains. We aim to promotediscussions regarding the resilience of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens in different Eurasian climatic phases and ecological contexts throughout the Paleolithic and Mesolithic.

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