Le félin gravé de Laugerie-Basse : à propos du mouvement dans l'art paléolithique

Crémadès, Michèle; Laville, H.

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“…Previous research has also linked large felines and symbolic issues, such as the one conducted with the Aurignacian ivory figurines from the Swabian Jura (Germany) [9,13,84]. Upper Paleolithic graphic expression also clearly places lions in a prominent hierarchic position in the early humans’ symbolic world, giving this animal an important role in human culture as a motif (e.g., [10,85,86]). Modern ethnographic sources also connect lions with symbolic beliefs, especially through manhood rituals and prestige hunting activities with inherent risks, as conducted, for example, by the Maasai people [87].…”

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Under the Skin of a Lion: Unique Evidence of Upper Paleolithic Exploitation and Use of Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea) from the Lower Gallery of La Garma (Spain)

Cueto

Camarós

Castaños³

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Pleistocene skinning and exploitation of carnivore furs have been previously inferred from archaeological evidence. Nevertheless, the evidence of skinning and fur processing tends to be weak and the interpretations are not strongly sustained by the archaeological record. In the present paper, we analyze unique evidence of patterned anthropic modification and skeletal representation of fossil remains of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) from the Lower Gallery of La Garma (Cantabria, Spain). This site is one of the few that provides Pleistocene examples of lion exploitation by humans. Our archaeozoological study suggests that lion-specialized pelt exploitation and use might have been related to ritual activities during the Middle Magdalenian period (ca. 14800 cal BC). Moreover, the specimens also represent the southernmost European and the latest evidence of cave lion exploitation in Iberia. Therefore, the study seeks to provide alternative explanations for lion extinction in Eurasia and argues for a role of hunting as a factor to take into account.

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Under the Skin of a Lion: Unique Evidence of Upper Paleolithic Exploitation and Use of Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea) from the Lower Gallery of La Garma (Spain)

Cueto

Camarós

Castaños³

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“…Cave paintings, which could be used for inference of the external appearance of lions, have not been reported from Ukraine. The French and Spanish Paleolithic art caves (Crémades and Laville 1995;Chauvet et al 1995;Spassov and Stoychev 2005;Cueto et al 2016) show maneless lions of great size and bulky stature or having only slightly longer hairs on the neck, shoulders and chest. The stature of earlier P. spelaea was even bulkier, so for most of their history cave lions were distinctly larger and more massive than their representatives from the latest part of the last glacial and than their congeneric P. leo (Fig.…”

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“…Large felines could be related to some rituals, such as the one conducted with the Aurignacian ivory figurine from Hohlenstein Stadel Cave in Germany (Conard 2003;Conard and Bolus 2003;Kind et al 2014;Cueto et al 2016). Upper Palaeolithic graphic expression places the lion in a prominent hierarchic position in the early humans' symbolic world, giving these felids an important role in human culture as a motif (Crémades and Laville 1995;Chauvet et al 1995;Spassov and Stoychev 2005;Cueto et al 2016). Activities such as the lion hunt that signifies the manhood rite of passage, as conducted by the Masaai people, connect the African lion with cultural symbolism (Hazzah et al 2009).…”

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The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea

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The fossil record of the cave lion, Panthera spelaea, suggests a gradual decrease in body size, the process peaking just before the extinction of the species at the end of the Late Pleistocene. Such an evolutionary trend appears rather unusual for a large felid species and requires further investigation. This study reviews the cave lions of Ukraine, whose fossils are known from 46 localities dated from 800 kyr to 18–17 kyr ago, with a special emphasis on size changes through time. We describe several important finds including those of Panthera spelaea fossilis from Sambir, Panthera spelaea ssp. from Bilykh Stin Cave and Panthera spelaea spelaea from Kryshtaleva Cave. We make subspecific identifications of specimens from the region and focus on their size characteristics. Our analysis of Ukrainian cave lions agrees with the temporal trend of decreasing size, particularly accelerating during MIS 2, as exemplified by the extremely small female skull from Kryshtaleva Cave. We provide a direct AMS date for this specimen (22.0–21.5 cal kyr BP), which suggests that the Kryshtaleva lioness must have belonged to a Panthera spelaea spelaea population forced south by the spreading ice sheet. We discuss some palaeoecological aspects of the evolutionary history and eventual extinction of the cave lion. Finally, we review the subfossil records of the extant lion Panthera leo known from several Ukrainian sites archaeologically dated to 6.4–2.0 kyr BP. These finds most probably represent the Persian lion Panthera leo persica.

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Le félin gravé de Laugerie-Basse : à propos du mouvement dans l'art paléolithique

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Under the Skin of a Lion: Unique Evidence of Upper Paleolithic Exploitation and Use of Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea) from the Lower Gallery of La Garma (Spain)

Under the Skin of a Lion: Unique Evidence of Upper Paleolithic Exploitation and Use of Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea) from the Lower Gallery of La Garma (Spain)

The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea

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