“…In 1989 I examined published claims for purposeful burial at La Chapelle-aux-Saints (Bouyssonie et al, 1908(Bouyssonie et al, , 1913Boule, 1909), Le Moustier (Peyrony, 1930), La Ferrassie (Capitan & Peyrony, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912a,b, 1921Peyrony, 1934;Heim, 1968), Teshik-Tash (Okladnikov, 1949;Movius, 1953), La Grotte du Régourdou (Bonifay, 1962(Bonifay, , 1964Bonifay & Vandermeersch, 1962), and Shanidar (Solecki, 1955(Solecki, , 1960(Solecki, , 1961(Solecki, , 1963(Solecki, , 1971Solecki & Leroi-Gourhan, 1961;Leroi-Gourhan, 1975). I argued that their preservation was equally well explained by natural deposition (Gargett, 1989a,b).…”