Evidence of small fast game exploitation in the Middle Paleolithic of Les Canalettes Aveyron, France

Cochard, David; Brugal, Jean‐Philip; Morin, Eugène; Meignen, Liliane

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.014

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“…Sin embargo, en los últimos años no pocos autores han demostrado la adquisición, procesado y aprovechamiento de aves y lagomorfos por parte de homininos fósiles con diferentes propósitos (p.e., Sanchis and Fernández-Peris, 2008, Cochard et al, 2012, Sanchis, 2012, Laroulandie et al, 2016, Romandini et al, 2016. Así, este paradigma clásico ha sido sobrepasado, especialmente para el caso de las sociedades neandertales.…”

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Aves de caza. Estudio tafonómico y zooarqueológico de los restos avianos de los niveles musterienses de Pié Lombard (Alpes-Maritimes, Francia)

Romero¹,

Fernández-Lomana²,

Brugal³

2018

Munibe, Antropol.-Arkeol.

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El yacimiento musteriense de Pié Lombard (Alpes-Maritimes, Francia) está localizado en un entorno montañoso de medio rango y posee un conjunto óseo rico y diversificado en el cual los restos de aves son abundantes. Su estudio tafonómico y zooarqueológico brinda cuestiones importantes sobre la explotación de aves por parte de rapaces, carnívoros y neandertales, y añade otro yacimiento en el cual se lleva a cabo la explotación de pequeñas presas en Europa Occidental. LABURPENAPié Lombard-eko (Itsas Alpeak, Frantzia) aztarnategi mousteriarra maila ertaineko ingurune menditsuan dago, eta hezur-multzo aberatsa eta dibertsifikatua du. Oso ugariak dira hegaztien hondakinak. Azterketa tafonomikoak eta zooarkeologikoak harrapariek, karniboroek eta neandertalek hegaztiekin lotuta egindako ustiapenari buruzko gai esanguratsuak azaleratu ditu. Gainera, mendebaldeko Europan harrapakin txikien ustiapena egin deneko beste aztarnategi bat azaldu da. ABSTRACTTraditionally small fast game exploitation is characteristic of the end of Upper Palaeolithic or modern humans. Nevertheless, several authors demonstrated recently small fast game exploitation by fossil hominins able to capture, process and consume small animals for different purposes, despite numerous methodological and technical problems. In this work, we provide results of a taphonomical and zooarchaeological study on all bird bones from the Middle Palaeolithic levels of Pié Lombard using various analytical tools.The Mousterian site of Pié Lombard is a narrow rock shelter located in a middle-range mountainous environment near Tourrettes-sur-Loup (Alpes-Maritimes, France). The Middle Palaeolithic bird bone assemblage retained 18 taxa, all adults. The most represented taxa are choughs and pigeons that represent rocky species, characteristic of mild-temperate climate. The third most common specie is the partridge, although to a lesser extent. Long bones are predominant and anatomical representations are different between the frequent species. Various taphonomical alterations are visible on bird remains, including human modifications (cut marks -incisions and scraping marks-and burnt bones), other non-human predator activities (usually tooth marks and digestion processes) and some diagenetic alterations (especially concretion, corrosion and root marks). The majority of the bones are characterized by curved outline, mixed angles and jagged textures.The bird remains exhibit significant breakages due to various consumption processes (humans, raptors and small carnivores) completed by natural burial process. The birds of prey (probably nocturnal raptors) transported their prey (usually choughs) to the rock shelter where they were consumed and regurgitated. Secondly, small and medium-sized carnivores (small felids like lynx or wild cat had a relevant role) predate occasionally on birds. Neanderthals occupations were occasional, where they exploited herbivores but are also in to some extent at the source of bird accumulation. The humans captured almost exclusively pigeons and partr...

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“…Este sitio puede incluirse, junto con otros de Europa Occidental (p. e., Cochard et al, 2012, en la lista de yacimientos en los cuales se demuestra la capacidad de las sociedades neandertales para capturar, procesar y consumir aves como parte de una estrategia económica continuada en el espacio y en el tiempo.…”

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Aves de caza. Estudio tafonómico y zooarqueológico de los restos avianos de los niveles musterienses de Pié Lombard (Alpes-Maritimes, Francia)

Romero¹,

Fernández-Lomana²,

Brugal³

2018

Munibe, Antropol.-Arkeol.

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“…The hominins of Europe consumed lagomorphs throughout the Pleistocene, but few sites dating from before the Upper Palaeolithic reflect such behaviour (Pillard, 1969;Chase, 1986;Blasco Sancho, 1995;Martínez Valle, 1996;Guennouni, 2001;Cochard, 2004;Costamagno and Laroulandie, 2004;Sanchís-Serra and Fern andez-Peris, 2008;Cochard et al, 2012;Huguet et al, 2013). Many authors therefore consider the systematic consumption of such small prey to be largely associated with anatomically modern humans (Stiner, 1994;Villaverde et al, 1996;Stiner et al, 1999Stiner et al, , 2000Martínez del Valle, 2001;Aura-Tortosa et al, 2002;Hockett and Haws, 2002;Cochard and Brugal, 2004;Lloveras et al, 2011;Fa et al, 2013;Rodríguez-Hidalgo et al, 2013a).…”

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Lagomorph predation represented in a middle Palaeolithic level of the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Spain), as inferred via a new use of classical taphonomic criteria

Arriaza

Huguet

Laplana

et al. 2017

Quaternary International

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a b s t r a c tLagomorph remains at Pleistocene sites may accumulate through the action of hominins, raptors or carnivores. Actualistic studies have described reliable taphonomic indicators that allow human and nonhuman involvement in such accumulations to be distinguished. However, discriminating between possible animal predators is not easy, because the prey remnants they leave may undergo the same kinds of taphonomic transformation. The main aim of the present work was to identify the agent, human or non-human, that accumulated the lagomorph remains at the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid). For this, 1) established taphonomic criteria, such as anatomical representation, were taken into account, 2) the presence of infant lagomorphs was examined by determining the age of the individual animals, 3) and coprolite remains adhered to fossils were identified. This new use of the latter two criteria aided in the identification of the predator responsible for the accumulation of remains. The results suggest that this was a small carnivore, probably an Iberian lynx.

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“…Nevertheless, recently some studies have highlighted how Neanderthals did also exploit birds (Blasco andFernández Peris 2009, 2012;Peresania et al 2011;Finlayson et al 2012;Blasco et al 2013), small animals like rabbits (Sanchis and Fernández Peris 2008;Blasco and Fernández Peris 2012;Cochard et al 2012;Sanchis 2012;Blasco et al 2013), reptiles (Díez et al 1998;Speth and Tchernov 2002;Blasco 2008; Morales and Sanchis 2009;Blasco et al 2013); as well as fish and marine resources like bivalve and molluscs (McBurney 1967;Álvarez-Fernández 2005;Bicho and Haws 2008;Cortés-Sánchez et al 2008Fa 2008;Stringer et al 2008;Stiner 2009;Zilhão et al 2010;Brown et al 2011), large animals like elephants Smith 2015) and even plant resources (Hardy et al 2001;Madella et al 2002;El Zaatari et al 2011;Salazar-García et al 2013).…”

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Neanderthal and Homo sapiens subsistence strategies in the Cantabrian region of northern Spain

Yravedra

Gómez-Castanedo

Aramendi

et al. 2015

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The Iberian Peninsula is key for the study of the transition from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic in Europe, as well as for the replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans (AMH). On this subject, the most widespread misconception assumed that both human species coexisted during a certain period of time, after which Homo sapiens imposed on Neanderthals who finally got extinct. However, recent proposals based on improved dating methods, discuss this possibility, arguing that the arrival of AMH was marked by the complete absence of Homo neanderthalensis in this territory. In that way, new theories deny the possibility of coexistence and the disappearance of Neanderthals by cultural displacement. Covalejos Cave (Velo, Pielagos, Cantabria), one of the few settlements in the northern Peninsula with Final Mousterian and Early Aurignacian levels, supports this hypothesis. Nevertheless, in this paper, we try to avoid a direct discussion about this question in order to centre our analysis on identifying possible different subsistence strategies between H. neanderthalensis and anatomically modern humans in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Our zooarchaeological and taphonomic studies reflect that Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans exploited the same faunal species, pointing out that there does not seem to be significant differences in their behaviour in Covalejos Cave.

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Evidence of small fast game exploitation in the Middle Paleolithic of Les Canalettes Aveyron, France

Cited by 104 publications

References 56 publications

Aves de caza. Estudio tafonómico y zooarqueológico de los restos avianos de los niveles musterienses de Pié Lombard (Alpes-Maritimes, Francia)

Aves de caza. Estudio tafonómico y zooarqueológico de los restos avianos de los niveles musterienses de Pié Lombard (Alpes-Maritimes, Francia)

Lagomorph predation represented in a middle Palaeolithic level of the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Spain), as inferred via a new use of classical taphonomic criteria

Neanderthal and Homo sapiens subsistence strategies in the Cantabrian region of northern Spain

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