Possible evidence of mammoth hunting during the Epigravettian at Yudinovo, Russian Plain

Germonpré, Mietje; Sablin, Mikhail; Khlopachev, Gennady; Grigorieva, Galina Vasilievna

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2008.07.003

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“…However, human interaction with these animals (including potential hunting of them) does not produce such bone accumulations and in certain cases may be recognized for a single excavated skeleton (see, e.g., Overstreet & Kolb, ; Holen, ; Haynes et al., ). For mammoth bone accumulations definite evidence of mammoth kills by humans remain surprisingly scarce and the hunting strategies that may have been used remain unclear (Lister & Bahn, ) while claims on mammoth hunting made by scholars for different sites are normally based on indirect evidence and/or simple logic and experiments (see, e.g., Frison & Todd, ; Germonpré et al., ; Brugère et al., ; Svoboda et al., ; Bosch, ). At the same time, in Siberia, the Yana RHS site provides well‐founded evidence for constant mammoth hunting (Nikolskiy & Pitulko, ), which resulted in an anthropogenic contribution to the formation of the mass accumulation of mammoth bones that constitutes part of the spatial structure of the site (Basilyan et al., ).…”

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The Berelekh Mammoth “Graveyard”: New Chronological and Stratigraphical Data from the 2009 Field Season

2014

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To clarify unanswered questions of site formation, geology and the archaeology of the Berelekh geoarchaeological complex, a special survey was undertaken in 2009 of the area surrounding the site. Several geological units have been revealed. By establishing the spatial and temporal relationship of these deposits—as well as their age—we have reconstructed the formation history of the Berelekh bone bed. The mammoth bone deposit belongs to a paleochannel. Radiocarbon dating of mammoth remains at Berelekh demonstrates rapid accumulation during the Bølling warming. Human involvement in its formation is, at best, questionable, since there is no real overlap between the radiocarbon dates associated with past human activity, and those of the mammoth bone bed. This study confirms that humans used mammoth bone remains after the bone bed was deposited. Culturally, the Berelekh “site” does not have any relationship to the so‐called “Dyuktai culture.” Instead, the Berelekh archaeological finds (side notched stone pendants) show certain similarities to non‐microblade terminal Pleistocene assemblages found from Yenisei to Kamchatka. Additionally, the Berelekh complex presents a clear analogy with lithics found in Eastern Beringia. Teardrop‐shaped incomplete bifaces found in the assemblage are comparable to the Chindadn points of Alaska. The nature of this “Chindadn connection” is intriguing but it is the only visible cultural link between Western and Eastern Beringia.

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The Berelekh Mammoth “Graveyard”: New Chronological and Stratigraphical Data from the 2009 Field Season

2014

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“…The body mass estimates for all European Palaeolithic dogs range from 32 kg to 41 kg with a mean of 35 kg. It is interesting to note that the Epigravettian dogs (Sablin and Khlopachev, 2002;Germonpré et al, 2008;Germonpré et al, 2009) and the Gravettian P redmostí dogs were all discovered in open air sites characterized by huge amounts of mammoth bones, with evidence of mammoth hunting (Oliva, 1997;Pidoplichko, 1998;Svoboda et al, 2005;Germonpré et al, 2008). In the ethnographic record, evidence can be found of the use of large dogs in the northern societies.…”

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Palaeolithic dog skulls at the Gravettian Předmostí site, the Czech Republic

Germonpré

Lázničková‐Galetová

Sablin

2012

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…8.3). After all, an active hunting of mammoths has been proved by several indirect evidences (among the other Baryshnikov et al, 1999;Germonpré et al, 2008;Kufel-Diakowska et al, 2016), and indeed lithic armatures were used to kill those animals. (Nuzhny et al, 2014), Lugovskoe (Zenin et al, 2006), Yana (Nikolskiy & Pitulko, 2013).…”

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Hunting High and Low: Gravettian Hunting Weapons from Southern Italy to the Russian Plain

Borgia

2017

Open Archaeology

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Abstract:The current paper aims at describing and analysing the backed tools found in two Early Gravettian sites separated geographically from each other: Grotta Paglicci (layer 23-22) in Italy, and Kostenki 8 (layer II) in Russia. A similarity between the lithic assemblages of the two sites, and other cultural aspects, has been reported by authors over many decades. The analysis of the backed tools has created the opportunity to apply the same methodological approach to verify the resemblance and potential causes for the similarity, and also to address broader considerations on Gravettian hunting strategies and the modalities and timing of the spread of new techniques, whether related to physical movement of people or assimilation of ideas. The perception is that, during the Gravettian period, shared symbolic behaviours and subsistence strategies linked people living in completely different environments with completely different resources, from the temperate regions of southern Italy, to the very cold Russian plains. This point of view cannot be questioned, but it tends to flatten an articulated palimpsest of human generations and to underestimate the very low demographic density of Prehistoric Europe.

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Possible evidence of mammoth hunting during the Epigravettian at Yudinovo, Russian Plain

Cited by 59 publications

References 54 publications

The Berelekh Mammoth “Graveyard”: New Chronological and Stratigraphical Data from the 2009 Field Season

The Berelekh Mammoth “Graveyard”: New Chronological and Stratigraphical Data from the 2009 Field Season

Palaeolithic dog skulls at the Gravettian Předmostí site, the Czech Republic

Hunting High and Low: Gravettian Hunting Weapons from Southern Italy to the Russian Plain

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