Fabre Virginie, Condemi Silvana, Degioanni Anna, Herrscher Estelle
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Bioculturelle, UMR 6578 CNRS/Université de la Méditerranée/EFS, Faculté de Médecine-Secteur Nord, Université de la Méditerranée, CS80011 Bd Pierre Dramard, 13344 Marseille Cedex 15, France.
Int J Evol Biol. 2011;2011:689315. doi: 10.4061/2011/689315. Epub 2011 Sep 15.
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 was to compare dietary strategies of Neanderthals and modern humans over time. Our conclusions suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans shared dietary habits in the particular environmental context of MOIS3 characterised in Europe by climatic deterioration. In this environmental context, the resource competition between Neanderthals and modern humans may have accelerated the disappearance of the Neanderthal population.
在晚更新世第3阶段（MOIS3），欧洲存在着两个人群，即本土尼安德特人和现代人类。这两个人群之间的生态竞争经常被提及，但从未得到证实。我们的目的是确定是否发生了资源竞争。在本文中，为了研究这两个人群之间生态竞争的可能性，我们对599个同位素数据进行了严格的统计处理，并通过混合模型进行分析。本文的目的是比较尼安德特人和现代人类在不同时期的饮食策略。我们的结论表明，在欧洲以气候恶化为特征的晚更新世第3阶段的特定环境背景下，尼安德特人和现代人类有着共同的饮食习惯。在这种环境背景下，尼安德特人和现代人类之间的资源竞争可能加速了尼安德特人群体的消失。
