Etude des Rongeurs et des Oiseaux de l'abri Castanet

Bouchud, Jean

doi:10.3406/bspf.1952.5048

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“…Interestingly, this region has a long tradition of archaeological and palaeontological investigation and curation of faunal remains in museums since the middle of the XIXth century, which led to many studies of small mammal fossils (e.g. [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ]). This paper focuses on impacts of climatic changes on the evolution and dynamics of rodent communities at both local and regional scales of analysis, thus offering the possibility of investigating climatic and ecological processes that contributed to structure the past and present communities.…”

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Investigating the Influence of Climate Changes on Rodent Communities at a Regional-Scale (MIS 1-3, Southwestern France)

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Terrestrial ecosystems have continuously evolved throughout the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene, deeply affected by both progressive environmental and climatic modifications, as well as by abrupt and large climatic changes such as the Heinrich or Dansgaard-Oeschger events. Yet, the impacts of these different events on terrestrial mammalian communities are poorly known, as is the role played by potential refugia on geographical species distributions. This study examines community changes in rodents of southwestern France between 50 and 10 ky BP by integrating 94 dated faunal assemblages coming from 37 archaeological sites. This work reveals that faunal distributions were modified in response to abrupt and brief climatic events, such as Heinrich events, without actually modifying the rodent community on a regional scale. However, the succession of events which operated between the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene gradually led to establishing a new rodent community at the regional scale, with intermediate communities occurring between the Bølling and the Allerød.

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Investigating the Influence of Climate Changes on Rodent Communities at a Regional-Scale (MIS 1-3, Southwestern France)

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“…The discovery in 1960 of an engraved bone featuring a bison in the Cro-Magnon material kept at the Musée du Laténium, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, (Bougard 2014;Pittard 1962) led some researchers to question the 'Aurignacian' attribution of the human remains and rather proposed a Gravettian affiliation (Bouchud 1966;Vallois 1968). This cultural reattribution was based on stylistic similarities to engravings found in Level 3 of Trilobite cave (Breuil 1907;Henry-Gambier et al 2013) However, the persistent consensus until the 1970s, was that the human remains were Aurignacian (Sonneville-Bordes 1960;Movius 1969).…”

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Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited

Baker¹,

Rigaud²,

Vanhaeren³

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The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of the most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, the copious ornament collection found among the human skeletons was not analysed with modern techniques. After proposing a synthesis of the complex curatorial history of the Cro-Magnon material, we submitted a large proportion of the personal ornaments found at the site, hosted in five conservation institutions, to a taxonomic study as well as to taphonomic, morphometric and microscopic analyses. The studied assemblage encompasses shell beads belonging to six species (L. littorea, N. lapillus, Turritella sp., L. obtusata, L. lurida, C. jeffreysianus), two perforated teeth -a Red Deer canine and a bovid incisor -and three shaped pendants, two made of ivory and one displaying no diagnostic features allowing a clear identification of the raw material. Shell ornaments were compared to modern reference collections to identify selection criteria. The Cro-Magnon people used marine shells coming from both the Atlantic and possibly the Mediterranean coasts as ornaments. The distance to these coasts indicates that shells may have been acquired via exchange or during seasonal migration. Very few may have originated from closer fossil outcrops. Conversely, ivory and teeth were available locally. No size preference is observed in the L. littorea, the most represented shell species used as beads. The vast majority of shell beads were perforated by puncturing them through the aperture. All ornaments bear diagnostic traces indicating that they were worn during the individuals' lives, and suggesting they belong to beadwork buried with the deceased. The three shaped pendants feature differences in technology, shape, size and decoration suggesting different agency for each. Re-examination of the single radiocarbon age obtained from one of the L. littorea leads us to propose, in the light of more up-to-date calibration curves and the nature of the sample, that additional radiocarbon dating should be performed in order to refine the chronological attribution of the Cro-Magnon burials.

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“…In this way, environmental reconstructions were developed from the beginning of the 20 th century onwards (e.g. Harlé 1906;Bouchud 1952;Simard 1966;Chaline1972;Jeannet 1978;Marquet 1993;Cuenca-Bescós et al 2009;Jeannet 2010;López-García et al 2010;Royer et al 2013). In most cases, they refer to the archaeological layers defined during excavations.…”

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The advantage of using independent subdivisions during archaeological excavations for the study of small vertebrate remains

Royer¹

2014

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Etude des Rongeurs et des Oiseaux de l'abri Castanet

Cited by 10 publications

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Investigating the Influence of Climate Changes on Rodent Communities at a Regional-Scale (MIS 1-3, Southwestern France)

Investigating the Influence of Climate Changes on Rodent Communities at a Regional-Scale (MIS 1-3, Southwestern France)

Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited

The advantage of using independent subdivisions during archaeological excavations for the study of small vertebrate remains

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