About the Authors

Clive Finlayson

Affiliations The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar, Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Kimberly Brown

Affiliation The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar

Ruth Blasco

rblascolopez@gmail.com

Affiliations Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain, IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, C/Marcel·lí Domingo s/n (Edifici W3), Campus Sescelades, Tarragona, Spain

Jordi Rosell

Affiliations Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain, IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, C/Marcel·lí Domingo s/n (Edifici W3), Campus Sescelades, Tarragona, Spain

Juan José Negro

Affiliation Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Avda,Americo Vespucio s/n, Sevilla, Spain

Gary R. Bortolotti

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Geraldine Finlayson

Affiliation The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar

Antonio Sánchez Marco

Affiliation Area of Neogene and Quaternary Faunas, Institut Català de Paleontologia, Campus de la UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Francisco Giles Pacheco

Affiliation The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar

Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal

Affiliation Depto. Geodinámica y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Campus del Carmen, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain

José S. Carrión

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Murcia Campus de Espinardo, Murcia, Spain

Darren A. Fa

Affiliation The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar

José M. Rodríguez Llanes

Affiliation CRED - Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters Institute Health and Society, Université Catholique de Louvain 30, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: CF KB RB JR ASM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJN GRB GF. Wrote the paper: CF RB JR JJN GRB. Palaeoecology: CF GF JJN GRB JSC DF. Statistical analyses: CF RB JR JJN GRB GF. Palaeontology: ASM. Geology and Geomorphology: JRV JMRL. Taphonomy and Zooarchaeology: KB RB JR. Lithic technology: FGP. Ethnology: JJN GRB.