Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain) Yravedra, José Luzón, Carmen Serrano Ramos, Alexia Cámara Donoso, José Miguel Ruiz, Auxiliadora Titton, Stefania Montilla, Eva Toro Moyano, Isidro Jiménez Arenas, Juan Manuel Early Pleistocene Taphonomy Hominin-carnivore interactions Zooarchaeology Cut marks Palaeolithic archaeology Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This research was funded by the Junta de Andalucia, Consejeria de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte: Orce Research Project "Primeras ocupaciones humanas y contexto paleoecologico a partir de los depositos pliopleistocenos de la cuenca Guadix-Baza: zona arqueologica de la Cuenca de Orce (Granada, Espana), 2017-2020 (Ref. BC.03.032/17)". We also received support from the PALARQ Foundation with the convocatory of Analitics 2019: "Identificando Carnivoros a partir de analisis Tafonomicos de ultima generacion aplicando Fotogrametria y Morfometria Geometrica de las Marcas de Diente. Aplicacion a Yacimientos del Pleistoceno Inferior Iberico: FN3, Venta Micena 3 y 4 (Granada), Ponton de la Oliva (Patones, Madrid)". Lloyd Austin Courtenay is also funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities with an FPI Predoctoral Grant (Ref. PRE2019-089411) associated to project RTI2018-099850-B-I00 and the University of Salamanca. The Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolucio Social (IPHES-CERCA) has received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Maria de Maeztu" program for Units of Excellence (CEX2019-000945-M). Over the last few decades, several types of evidence such as presence of hominin remains, lithic assemblages, and bones with anthropogenic surface modifications have demonstrated that early human communities inhabited the European subcontinent prior to the Jaramillo Subchron (1.07–0.98 Ma). While most studies have focused primarily on early European lithic technologies and raw material management, relatively little is known about food procurement strategies. While there is some evidence showing access to meat and other animal-based food resources, their mode of acquisition and associated butchery processes are still poorly understood. This paper presents a taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis of the Fuente Nueva-3 (FN3) (Guadix-Baza, Spain) faunal assemblage, providing a more in-depth understanding of early hominin subsistence strategies in Europe. The present results show that hominins had access to the meat and marrow of a wide range of animal taxa, including elephants, hippopotami, and small- and medium-sized animals. At the same time, evidence of carnivore activity at the site suggests that these communities likely faced some degree of competition from large predators when acquiring and processing carcasses. 2021-11-25T08:20:13Z 2021-11-25T08:20:13Z 2021-11-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Yravedra, J... [et al.]. Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 13, 213 (2021). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01461-7] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/71741 10.1007/s12520-021-01461-7 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Springer