Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane Cave 44 ky B.P., Italy

Peresani, Marco; Fiore, Ivana; Gala, Monica; Romandini, Matteo; Tagliacozzo, Antonio

doi:10.1073/pnas.1016212108

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“…Over such large distances, the only "infl uence" that could have been exerted is that concerning the notion of "personal ornamentation" itself. However, in western Europe, Neandertal body painting and personal ornamentation have Middle Paleolithic beginnings and predate both the IUP/Emiran and the Châtelperronian by thousands of years (Soressi and d'Errico 2007 ;Zilhão et al 2010a ;Peresani et al 2011 ;Morin and Laroulandie 2012 ;Finlayson et al 2012 ).…”

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“…While Recent African Origin views interpreted many innovations of the European Upper Paleolithic as a "Human Revolution" (Mellars and Stringer 1989 ) triggered by the immigration of modern humans, the new evidence credited many of those innovations to the Neandertals and showed that some had fi rst appeared in the preceding Middle Paleolithic. Among the latter is the use in body ornamentation of painted/perforated marine shells, large raptor feathers, and mineral pigments modifi ed as crayons or processed for the preparation of complex cosmetic recipes (Soressi and d'Errico 2007 ;Zilhão et al 2010a ;Peresani et al 2011 ;Morin and Laroulandie 2012 ;Finlayson et al 2012 ). It is also quite possible that Neandertals were the makers of the earliest known cave art, as suggested by the minimum age of 41.4 ± 0.6 ka (95.4 % probability interval) provided by U-series dating of calcite accretions covering geometric signs and hand stencils at the Spanish site of El Castillo (Cantabria; Pike et al 2012 ).…”

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Neandertal-Modern Human Contact in Western Eurasia: Issues of Dating, Taxonomy, and Cultural Associations

Zilhão

2013

Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans Volume 1

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Supporting Assimilation views of Neandertal/modern human interaction, chronostratigraphic reasoning indicates that the "transitional" industries of Europe predate modern human immigration, in agreement with their association with Neandertals in the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne and St.-Césaire. Supporting the Neandertals' species separateness and less developed cognition, those industries are alternatively claimed to relate to pioneer groups of modern humans; the latter would have been the true makers of the precocious instances of symbolic material culture that, under Assimilation, are assigned to the Neandertals. However, the taxonomy of the Kent's Cavern and Grotta del Cavallo dental remains is uncertain, and their poor stratigraphic context precludes dating by association. The opposite happens at the Grotte du Renne, whose stratigraphic integrity is corroborated by both taphonomy and dating. Not questioning that the Early Ahmarian is a cultural proxy for modern humans and a source for the Protoaurignacian of Europe, its claimed emergence ~46-49 ka ago at Kebara refl ects the dating of Middle Paleolithic charcoal-to be expected, because the Early Ahmarian units at the back of the cave are made up of reworked Middle Paleolithic sediments derived from the entrance. The dating of inherited material also explains the old results for the Aurignacian of Willendorf II and Geissenklösterle. At the latter, the dates on anthropically modifi ed samples of the hunted taxa (reindeer and horse) place its Aurignacian occupations in the same time range as elsewhere in Europe, after ~40 ka ago. The hypothesis that Neandertal/modern human contact in Europe resulted in a process of assimilation in connection with the spread of the Protoaurignacian ~41.5 ka ago remains unfalsifi ed.

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Neandertal-Modern Human Contact in Western Eurasia: Issues of Dating, Taxonomy, and Cultural Associations

Zilhão

2013

Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans Volume 1

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“…/ Necesidades humanas definidas según Lenssen-Erz y Linstädter (2009), relacionada con niveles de la pirámide entera de Maslow (1970 houra II (Stoetzel et al, 2014), Dar es-Soltan 1 (Stoetzel et al, 2014), Ifri n'Ammar , Taforalt (Bouzouggar et al, 2007) and Bizmoune (Kuhn et al, 2015). Southern Iberia -In contrast to the last century, when Neanderthals were mainly regarded as cognitively inferior to contemporaneous early AMH, there is now evidence for Neanderthals' capability of symbolic behaviour (d'Errico et al, 1998;White, 2001;Peresani et al, 2011). However, the number of sites on the Iberian Peninsula and especially in Southern Spain and Gibraltar is low.…”

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Cultural contact over the Strait of Gibraltar during the Middle Palaeolithic? Evaluating the visibility of cultural exchange

Tafelmaier¹,

Pastoors²,

Weniger³

2018

Munibe, Antropol.-Arkeol.

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Possible contacts between hunter-gatherers of Northern Africa and Europe via the Strait of Gibraltar during the Pleistocene are still object to discussions. In the absence of significant fossil remains, debates are mainly based on similarities and differences of singular aspects of material culture. However, a theoretical framework for these discussions was lacking. The first aim of this study thus has been the development of a theoretical base. We therein included Maslow´s pyramid of basic needs. The idea of our approach is that the presence or absence of so-called cultural tracers identify either contact or disparity. A large database on archaeological sites of Morocco and Southern Iberia dating between 160 ka and 40 ka years ago has been compiled, containing information about lithic technology and typology, lithic raw material acquisition, subsistence patterns and symbolic behaviour. We formulated three potential contact scenarios between the two regions. The presence and/ or absence of so-called cultural tracers within the data set, that covered all levels of Maslow´s pyramid, led us to conclude that -based on the present archaeological and anthropological data -no contact took place between Iberian and North African populations across the Strait of Gibraltar in the given time frame. RESUMENContactos entre grupos humanos del Pleistoceno superior entre África del Norte y la Península Ibérica cruzando el Estrecho de Gibraltar están siendo objeto de debates. Por la falta de fósiles humanos significativos el debate se centra básicamente en similitudes y diferencias en la cultura material. Pero todavía falta un marco metodológico para la discusión. Este trabajo intenta la presentación de una base teórica preliminar. La pirámide de Maslow con necesidades básicas forma parte de estas reflexiones. La ausencia o presencia de marcadores culturales indica según nuestro enfoque contactos o disparidades. En un banco de datos de yacimientos arqueológicos entre 160 ka y 40 ka de Marruecos y del sur de España hemos compilado información sobre tecnología de inventarios líticos, aprovisionamiento de materias primas, patrones de asentamiento y comportamiento simbólico. Se pueden formular tres escenarios de contacto entre ambas regiones. La aplicación de marcadores culturales in relación con la pirámide entera de Maslow indica que según la información actual no se pueden demostrar contactos entre ambos continentes. LABURPENAIparraldeko Afrikaren eta Iberiar penintsularen artean, Gibraltargo itsasartea zeharkatuta, Goi-pleistozenoan giza taldeen artean izan ziren harremanak eztabaidagai bihurtu dira. Gizakiaren fosil esanguratsurik ez dagoenez, eztabaidaren gai nagusia, batez ere, kultura materialean dauden antzekotasunak eta aldeak dira. Baina oraindik eztabaidarako testuinguru metodologikoa falta da. Lan honen helburua da aurretiazko oinarri teorikoa aurkeztea. Oinarrizko beharrak dituen Maslow piramidea gogoeta horien baitan dago. Gure ustez, markatzaile kulturalik ez izateak edo halakoak izateak harremanak edo desber...

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“…Aunque buena parte de esos modelos han sido desestimados por las recientes investigaciones de los modos de vida en el Paleolítico medio (Ríos-Garaizar 2008, y de las capacidades simbólicas neandertales (Zilhao et al 2010, Peresani et al 2011, permanece como lugar común la ausencia de "industria ósea" sensu estricto, e incluso de utillaje en hueso, en el Paleolítico inferior y medio. En este trabajo se revisan las principales evidencias de uso de materiales óseos como instrumentos, desde los orígenes del género Homo, para comprobar la pertinencia de dicha idea, que es lugar común en nuestra disciplina.…”

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Los útiles óseos “poco elaborados” en el Paleolítico inferior y medio y su continuidad en el Paleolítico superior. Una revisión historiográfica

Holgueras¹

2014

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Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane Cave 44 ky B.P., Italy

Cited by 300 publications

References 34 publications

Neandertal-Modern Human Contact in Western Eurasia: Issues of Dating, Taxonomy, and Cultural Associations

Neandertal-Modern Human Contact in Western Eurasia: Issues of Dating, Taxonomy, and Cultural Associations

Cultural contact over the Strait of Gibraltar during the Middle Palaeolithic? Evaluating the visibility of cultural exchange

Los útiles óseos “poco elaborados” en el Paleolítico inferior y medio y su continuidad en el Paleolítico superior. Una revisión historiográfica

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