Gibraltar data are too sparse to inform on Neanderthal exploitation of coastal resources

Stringer et al. (1) report 149 mollusk shells, 5 seal bones, 3 dolphin bones, and 3 fish bones from Mousterian layers in 2 caves on Gibraltar. From this they argue that the Neanderthals had “focused coastal visits… repeated during particular times, possibly seasonal” (p. 14323) and that in this respect they surpassed …