The earlier Gravettian of Southern Moravia-the Pavlovian-is notable for the many raven bones (Corvus corax) documented in its faunal assemblages. On the basis of the rich zooarchaeological and settlement data from the Pavlovian, previous work suggested that common ravens were attracted by human domestic activities and subsequently captured by Pavlovian people, presumably for feathers and perhaps food. Here, we report independent δ15N, δ13C and δ34S stable isotope data obtained from 12 adult ravens from the Pavlovian key sites of Předmostí I, Pavlov I and Dolní Věstonice I to test this idea. We show that Pavlovian ravens regularly fed on larger herbivores and especially mammoths, aligning in feeding preferences with contemporaneous Gravettian foragers. We argue that opportunistic-generalist ravens were encouraged by human settlement and carcass provisioning. Our data may thus provide surprisingly early evidence for incipient synanthropism among Palaeolithic ravens. We suggest that anthropogenic manipulation of carrion supply dynamics furnished unique contexts for the emergence of human-oriented animal behaviours, in turn promoting novel human foraging opportunities-dynamics which are therefore important for understanding early hunter-gatherer ecosystem impacts.

BIOCHANGE Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World Department of Biology Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark

Biogeology Research Group Department of Geosciences University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany

Center for Environmental Humanities School of Culture and Society Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark

Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark

Department of Geosciences and Geography University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland

Moravian Museum Anthropos Institute Brno Czech Republic

Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany

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