Middle Palaeolithic Cave Taphonomy: Discerning Humans from Hyenas at Arcy‐sur‐Cure, France
Identifieur interne : 000308 ( Main/Exploration ); précédent : 000307; suivant : 000309Middle Palaeolithic Cave Taphonomy: Discerning Humans from Hyenas at Arcy‐sur‐Cure, France
Auteurs : J. G. Enloe [États-Unis]Source :
- International Journal of Osteoarchaeology [ 1047-482X ] ; 2012-09.
Abstract
Recent excavations at the Grotte du Bison, Arcy‐sur‐Cure, demonstrate essential continuity in industrial succession from the late Mousterian into the Châtelperronian. The faunal assemblage, however, demonstrates considerable occupation by hyenas and bears in alternation with that by humans in the underlying Mousterian levels. This demonstrates one of the fundamental problems of cave stratigraphies. The archaeological record of the Middle Palaeolithic rarely presents unambiguous associations and spatial configuration. A substantial proportion of the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record has been investigated in cave mouth and rock shelter sites. Cave taphonomy most often results in complex palimpsests of depositional history, mixing debris from prehistoric human occupations with those from other processes, both geological and faunal. Spatial analysis may be one way of deciphering portions of complex depositions. Data from one Middle Palaeolithic level of the Grotte du Bison are presented here to illustrate the potential for discerning differential activity and occupation areas resulting from Neanderthals, hyenas and other animals. Signatures of associations of bone fragments with other classes of material recovered from recent excavations are offered to identify those portions of the palimpsest attributable to human activities. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Url:
DOI: 10.1002/oa.1276
Affiliations:
Links toward previous steps (curation, corpus...)
- to stream Istex, to step Corpus: 001132
- to stream Istex, to step Curation: 001131
- to stream Istex, to step Checkpoint: 000109
- to stream Main, to step Merge: 000310
- to stream Main, to step Curation: 000308
Le document en format XML
<record><TEI wicri:istexFullTextTei="biblStruct"><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Middle Palaeolithic Cave Taphonomy: Discerning Humans from Hyenas at Arcy‐sur‐Cure, France</title><author><name sortKey="Enloe, J G" sort="Enloe, J G" uniqKey="Enloe J" first="J. G." last="Enloe">J. G. Enloe</name></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">ISTEX</idno><idno type="RBID">ISTEX:ABE08D18CA631920F4CEDEFB8A8166E6CFD267DB</idno><date when="2012" year="2012">2012</date><idno type="doi">10.1002/oa.1276</idno><idno type="url">https://api.istex.fr/document/ABE08D18CA631920F4CEDEFB8A8166E6CFD267DB/fulltext/pdf</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Istex/Corpus">001132</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Istex" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="ISTEX">001132</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Istex/Curation">001131</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Istex/Checkpoint">000109</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Istex" wicri:step="Checkpoint">000109</idno><idno type="wicri:doubleKey">1047-482X:2012:Enloe J:middle:palaeolithic:cave</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Merge">000310</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Curation">000308</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Exploration">000308</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title level="a" type="main" xml:lang="en">Middle Palaeolithic Cave Taphonomy: Discerning Humans from Hyenas at Arcy‐sur‐Cure, France</title><author><name sortKey="Enloe, J G" sort="Enloe, J G" uniqKey="Enloe J" first="J. G." last="Enloe">J. G. Enloe</name><affiliation wicri:level="4"><country xml:lang="fr">États-Unis</country><wicri:regionArea>Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, IA, 52242, Iowa City</wicri:regionArea><orgName type="university">Université de l'Iowa</orgName><placeName><settlement type="city">Iowa City</settlement><region type="state">Iowa</region></placeName></affiliation><affiliation wicri:level="2"><country xml:lang="fr">États-Unis</country><placeName><region type="state">Iowa</region></placeName><wicri:cityArea>Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City</wicri:cityArea></affiliation><affiliation wicri:level="1"><country wicri:rule="url">États-Unis</country></affiliation></author></analytic><monogr></monogr><series><title level="j">International Journal of Osteoarchaeology</title><title level="j" type="abbrev">Int. J. Osteoarchaeol.</title><idno type="ISSN">1047-482X</idno><idno type="eISSN">1099-1212</idno><imprint><publisher>Blackwell Publishing Ltd</publisher><date type="published" when="2012-09">2012-09</date><biblScope unit="volume">22</biblScope><biblScope unit="issue">5</biblScope><biblScope unit="page" from="591">591</biblScope><biblScope unit="page" to="602">602</biblScope></imprint><idno type="ISSN">1047-482X</idno></series><idno type="istex">ABE08D18CA631920F4CEDEFB8A8166E6CFD267DB</idno><idno type="DOI">10.1002/oa.1276</idno><idno type="ArticleID">OA1276</idno></biblStruct></sourceDesc><seriesStmt><idno type="ISSN">1047-482X</idno></seriesStmt></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass><langUsage><language ident="en">en</language></langUsage></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract">Recent excavations at the Grotte du Bison, Arcy‐sur‐Cure, demonstrate essential continuity in industrial succession from the late Mousterian into the Châtelperronian. The faunal assemblage, however, demonstrates considerable occupation by hyenas and bears in alternation with that by humans in the underlying Mousterian levels. This demonstrates one of the fundamental problems of cave stratigraphies. The archaeological record of the Middle Palaeolithic rarely presents unambiguous associations and spatial configuration. A substantial proportion of the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record has been investigated in cave mouth and rock shelter sites. Cave taphonomy most often results in complex palimpsests of depositional history, mixing debris from prehistoric human occupations with those from other processes, both geological and faunal. Spatial analysis may be one way of deciphering portions of complex depositions. Data from one Middle Palaeolithic level of the Grotte du Bison are presented here to illustrate the potential for discerning differential activity and occupation areas resulting from Neanderthals, hyenas and other animals. Signatures of associations of bone fragments with other classes of material recovered from recent excavations are offered to identify those portions of the palimpsest attributable to human activities. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.</div></front></TEI><affiliations><list><country><li>États-Unis</li></country><region><li>Iowa</li></region><settlement><li>Iowa City</li></settlement><orgName><li>Université de l'Iowa</li></orgName></list><tree><country name="États-Unis"><region name="Iowa"><name sortKey="Enloe, J G" sort="Enloe, J G" uniqKey="Enloe J" first="J. G." last="Enloe">J. G. Enloe</name></region><name sortKey="Enloe, J G" sort="Enloe, J G" uniqKey="Enloe J" first="J. G." last="Enloe">J. G. Enloe</name><name sortKey="Enloe, J G" sort="Enloe, J G" uniqKey="Enloe J" first="J. G." last="Enloe">J. G. Enloe</name></country></tree></affiliations></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
EXPLOR_STEP=$WICRI_ROOT/Wicri/Bois/explor/RenardV1/Data/Main/Exploration
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_STEP/biblio.hfd -nk 000308 | SxmlIndent | more
Ou
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_AREA/Data/Main/Exploration/biblio.hfd -nk 000308 | SxmlIndent | more
Pour mettre un lien sur cette page dans le réseau Wicri
{{Explor lien
|wiki= Wicri/Bois
|area= RenardV1
|flux= Main
|étape= Exploration
|type= RBID
|clé= ISTEX:ABE08D18CA631920F4CEDEFB8A8166E6CFD267DB
|texte= Middle Palaeolithic Cave Taphonomy: Discerning Humans from Hyenas at Arcy‐sur‐Cure, France
}}
| This area was generated with Dilib version V0.6.27. |  |