Exploitation du milieu animal par les Néanderthaliens dans le Sud-Est de la France

A 2008 Lyon doctoral thesis employing zooarchaeological and taphonomical studies of the bones of small, medium and large herbivores and sometimes carnivores to throw light on the hunting strategies and eating habits of Neanderthal groups living in the lower Rhone valley on the eve of the arrival of the first modern humans, about 32000BP. The author identifies three broad trends in the types of animal exploitation.