Deux squelettes humains au milieu de foyers de l'époque moustérienne

Peyrony, Denis; Capitan, Louis

doi:10.3406/crai.1909.72388

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“…The first and most extensive excavations of the so-called Grand Abri or Large Shelter at La Ferrassie were led by Peyrony and Capitan over a century ago (1934; see also Capitan and Peyrony, 1909, 1910, 1912Breuil, 1921). They excavated a series of trenches starting near the road and progressively working towards the east or deeper into the supposed shelter (see below).…”

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A multi-method luminescence dating of the Palaeolithic sequence of La Ferrassie based on new excavations adjacent to the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons

Guérin

Frouin

Talamo

et al. 2015

Journal of Archaeological Science

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a b s t r a c tA new interdisciplinary project was initiated to excavate a portion of the Palaeolithic site of La Ferrassie left intact by earlier excavations. One of the aims of this project was to provide chronological information on the succession of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic layers, as well as on the skeletons unearthed by Capitan and Peyrony in the early 1900's. We report here preliminary results on the lithics, faunal remains, site formation processes, and on the stratigraphic context of the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons that were found adjacent to our excavations. Finally, results from luminescence dating of the sediments and a preliminary set of radiocarbon ages are presented. Quartz OSL, both at the multi-grain and single-grain levels of analysis, and post-IR IRSL of feldspar at various stimulation temperatures are compared. The quartz/feldspar comparison revealed a bleaching problem for the quartz OSL (and the feldspar pIRIR signals) from Layer 2; as a consequence, the age of this Layer was determined using a minimum age model.A Mousterian industry with bifaces, at the base of the sequence, has been dated between 91 ± 9 and 44 ± 3 ka. The Ferrassie Mousterian layers are attributed to MIS 3, between 54 ± 3 and 40 ± 2 ka, and thus appear very late in the final Middle Palaeolithic of the region; furthermore, these ages constrain the chronology of the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons, which have been attributed to one of these Ferrassie Mousterian layers. The Châtelperronian layer is dated to 42 ± 3 ka and the Aurignacian to 37 ± 2 ka. Implications of the ages for the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons, and for the variability of late Mousterian, are discussed.

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A multi-method luminescence dating of the Palaeolithic sequence of La Ferrassie based on new excavations adjacent to the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons

Guérin

Frouin

Talamo

et al. 2015

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“…The La Ferrassie 1 skeleton was discovered during excavations by L. Capitan and D. Peyrony in 1909, in a collapsed rockshelter in the commune of Savignacde-Miremont, near Le Bugue, Dordogne, France (Capitan & Peyrony, 1909;Peyrony, 1934). The skeleton was buried semi-flexed on its right side, securely within the level C of La Ferrassie, a level which yielded an abundant Typical Mousterian assemblage and plentiful cold climate macrofauna.…”

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Bilateral Femoral and Tibial Periostitis in the La Ferrassie 1 Neanderthal

Fennell

Trinkaus

1997

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“…Boule based his interpretation primarily on the La Chapelle-auxSaints partial skeleton, but he relied heavily on the more complete postcranial remains of La Ferrassie 1 and 2 (discovered in 1909[Capitan and Peyrony, 1909 Boule, 1913:14-19). The thoroughness of Boule's description, comparative analysis and consideration of alternative interpretations was not matched for another fossil hominid until the descriptions of the PFedmosti, Skhul, and Tabun specimens in the 1930s (Matiegka, 1934(Matiegka, , 1938 McCown and Keith, 1939).…”

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Pathology and the posture of the La Chapelle‐aux‐Saints Neandertal

Trinkaus

1985

American J Phys Anthropol

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The depiction of the Neandertals as incompletely erect was based primarily on Boule's (1911, 1912a, 1913) analysis of the La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 partial skeleton. The inaccurate aspects of Boule's postural reconstruction were corrected during the 1950s. However, it has come to be believed, following Straus and Cave (1957), that Boule's errors of reconstruction were due to the diseased condition of the La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 remains, rather than to Boule's misinterpretation of morphology. The abnormalities on the La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 postcranium include: lower cervical, upper thoracic, and lower thoracic intervertebral degenerative joint disease (DJD), a distal fracture of a mid-thoracic rib, extensive DJD of the left hip, DJD of the right fifth proximal interphalangeal articulation, bilateral humeral head eburnation, and minor exostosis formation on the right humerus, ulna, and radius. These were associated with extensive alveolar inflammation including apical abscesses and antemortem tooth loss, some temporomandibular DJD, bilateral auditory exostoses, and minimal occipital condyle DJD. None of these abnormalities significantly affected Boule's Neandertal postural reconstruction, and a review of his analysis indicates that early twentieth century interpretations of skeletal morphology (primarily of the cranium, cervical vertebrae, lumbar and sacral vertebrae, proximal femora and tibiae, posterior tarsals, and hallucial tarsometatarsal joint), combined with Boule's evolutionary preconceptions, were responsible for his mistaken view of Neandertal posture.

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Deux squelettes humains au milieu de foyers de l'époque moustérienne

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A multi-method luminescence dating of the Palaeolithic sequence of La Ferrassie based on new excavations adjacent to the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons

A multi-method luminescence dating of the Palaeolithic sequence of La Ferrassie based on new excavations adjacent to the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons

Bilateral Femoral and Tibial Periostitis in the La Ferrassie 1 Neanderthal

Pathology and the posture of the La Chapelle‐aux‐Saints Neandertal

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