Abstract
This chapter is a regional study of long-term change in the human diet. Three major topics are addressed. First, biases about what 1 believe causes change in human subsistence are made explicit, and the components of a model for examining subsistence change are identified. Next, general patterns in north Spanish archaeological faunas are reviewed and then analyzed in terms of the model. A comparison is made between theoretical values generated by the model and those observed for eight culture/stratigraphic units ordered in time. An effort is made to explain an anomaly (the Cantabrian Lower Magdalenian) detected by application of the approach. Finally, the model itself is assessed in terms of its adequacy for dealing with economic faunas from ancient (Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene) archaeological contexts.
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