RESEARCH ARTICLE Rocks, teeth, and tools: New insights into early Neanderthal mobility strategies in South- Eastern France from lithic reconstructions and strontium isotope analysis 1 2,3,4 5 6 Marie-HeÂlène MoncelID *, Paul Fernandes , Malte WillmesID , Hannah James , Rainer GruÈ n7 a1111111111 1 UMR 7194, CNRS, Institut de PaleÂontologie Humaine, National Museum of Natural History, 1 rue Rene Panhard, Paris, France, 2 SARL PaleÂotime, Villard-de-Lans, France, 3 UMR PACEA, CNRS, University of a1111111111 Bordeaux, CS, Pessac, France, 4 Department of Human of Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary a1111111111 Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, 5 Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology, University of a1111111111 California Davis, CA, United States of America, 6 Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian a1111111111 National University, Canberra ACT, Australia, 7 Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Nathan QLD, Australia *
[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Citation: Moncel M-H, Fernandes P, Willmes M, Abstract James H, GruÈn R (2019) Rocks, teeth, and tools: Neanderthals had complex land use patterns, adapting to diversified landscapes and cli- New insights into early Neanderthal mobility strategies in South-Eastern France from lithic mates. Over the past decade, considerable progress has been made in reconstructing the reconstructions and strontium isotope analysis. chronology, land use and subsistence patterns, and occupation types of sites in the RhoÃne PLoS ONE 14(4): e0214925. https://doi.org/ Valley, southeast France. In this study, Neanderthal mobility at the site of Payre is investi- 10.1371/journal.pone.0214925 gated by combining information from lithic procurement analysis (ªchaõÃne evolutiveº and Editor: Michael D.