Trois nouveaux squelettes humains fossiles

Grave goods from the Saint-Germain-la-Rivière burial: Evidence for social inequality in the Upper Palaeolithic

“…As for the contemporaneous burials discovered in the same region, of the four inhumations attributed to the early/middle Magdalenian or dated by 14 C to this period (Gambier et al, 2000), three (Lafaye, Cap Blanc, and Chancelade) do not seem to have yielded any ornaments (Binant, 1991;Capitan and Peyrony, 1912;Hardy, 1888;May, 1986). The fourth (Laugerie Basse) comprised about 20 Cypreae, some of which were Mediterranean (Massenat et al, 1872;Taborin, 1993, p. 431), a category of objects that also formed part of the grave goods of Saint-Germain-la-Rivière.…”

From flakes to grooves: A technical shift in antlerworking during the last glacial maximum in southwest France

“…Indeed, at Cap-Blanc, the excavations that yielded most of the antler industry, directed by G. Lalanne, were conducted in 1909 within four months, without sieving and without stratigraphic control (these excavations led to the uncovering of the rock sculpture: Lalanne and Breuil, 1911;Roussot, 1984). After the discovery of a Paleolithic burial (Capitan and Peyrony, 1912), and most of the shelter having been emptied from its archeological filling, later excavations centered on small preserved areas that yielded little or no antler industry (Peyrony, 1950;Roussot, 1984) and on the backdirt of the Lalanne excavations (Castel and Chadelle, 2000). Analysis of the archeological material was mostly centered on the lithic industry and showed evidence of the occupation of the site during the Solutrean, Magdalenian and Azilian (Sonneville- Bordes, 1960:403-405;Roussot, 1984;Castel and Chadelle, 2000;Chehmana in Bourdier, 2010:69).…”

Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child

“…S2) [34][35][36][37] . Most of these skeletons were found at the beginning of the twentieth century [38][39][40][41][42][43] . The last skeleton, La Ferrassie 8 (LF8), a partial Neandertal skeleton (cranium, neck and trunk bones, pelvis and four hand phalanges) of a child of around two-years-old, was found in 1970 and 1973 in layer M2, during the penultimate excavation of the site between 1968 and 1973 28,30,31,43 .…”