S4E



S4E

Room 2.4.

Prey and hunters: Investigating subsistence strategies from the Pleistocene to the Holocene / Proies et chasseurs : étude des stratégies de subsistance du Pléistocène à l'Holocène

Session organizers: Ursula Thun Hohenstein, Ivana Fiore

S4E, Wed Sep 2 2026, 9:00 - 13:30, Room 2.4

9:00-9:20 - Session introduction / Ursula Thun Hohenstein & Ivana Fiore

9:20-9:40 - The High-Elevation Open-Air Site of Kalavan 2 (Armenia, MIS 3): Human Subsistence Behaviour in the Late Middle Palaeolithic / Rebecca Mistri, Delphine Vettese, Eva Martellotta, Agnès Testu, Boris Gasparyan, Ariel Malinsky-Buller

9:40-10:00 - It's Like Ten Thousand Deer When All You Need Is a Gazelle: Tabun Cave Layer B Fauna Revisited / Meir Orbach, Ron Shimelmitz, Mina Weinstein-Evron, Israel Hershkovitz, Reuven Yeshurun

10:00-10:20 - The Wildcat (Felis silvestris) and Other Small Mammals in the Subsistence Strategies of Late Glacial and Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Italy / Ivana Fiore, Francesca Alhaique, Antonio Tagliacozzo, Ursula Thun Hohenstein

10:20-10:40 - Seasonal Occupation at Maglemose Inland Sites: An Integrated Multi-Species Dental Approach / Antigone Uzunidis, Jacob Kveiborg

10:40-11:00 - Poster 1-3 e Discussion

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - The 8.2k Event: Subsistence and Environmental Change in South Africa / Sandee M. Oster, Erich Fisher, Jerome Reynard, Grant Hall

11:50-12:10 - The Resilience of Subsistence Strategy in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau from Terminal Pleistocene to Early Holocene / Yuanzhe Guo, Yuwei Du

12:10-12:30 - Small Prey Exploitation and Emerging Synanthropic Communities at the PPNA Site of el-Hemmeh (Jordan) / Ma'ayan Lev, Cheryl Makarewicz

12:30-12:50 - Beyond Subsistence: Selective Hunting and the Role of Wild Fauna in the Economy of Spina (Northern Italy) / Lucilla Angeletti, Marco Bertolini, Ursula Thun Hohenstein

12:50-13:10 - Poster 4 Discussion

13:10-13:30 - Conclusion

13:30-14:30 - Lunch