L’homme de Tautavel. Un Homo erectus européen évolué. Homo erectus tautavelensis

Lumley, Marie‐Antoinette de

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“…However, despite the relatively good fossil record of Neandertals and their recently sequenced nuclear genome (32,33), considerable debate still exists regarding the time of divergence of the lineages leading to modern humans and Neandertals and regarding the name, hypodigm, and geographic distribution of the stem species. One of the main reasons for this ongoing debate is the scarcity, generally fragmentary preservation, and often unclear chronology of most European Middle Pleistocene fossils, and the taxonomic classification of many of these Middle Pleistocene European fossils (as well as those from Africa and Asia) remains controversial (23,31,(34)(35)(36)(37).…”

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New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

Daura

Sanz

Arsuaga

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The Middle Pleistocene is a crucial time period for studying human evolution in Europe, because it marks the appearance of both fossil hominins ancestral to the later Neandertals and the Acheulean technology. Nevertheless, European sites containing well-dated human remains associated with an Acheulean toolkit remain scarce. The earliest European hominin crania associated with Acheulean handaxes are at the sites of Arago, Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos (SH), and Swanscombe, dating to 400–500 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11–12). The Atapuerca (SH) fossils and the Swanscombe cranium belong to the Neandertal clade, whereas the Arago hominins have been attributed to an incipient stage of Neandertal evolution, to Homo heidelbergensis, or to a subspecies of Homo erectus. A recently discovered cranium (Aroeira 3) from the Gruta da Aroeira (Almonda karst system, Portugal) dating to 390–436 ka provides important evidence on the earliest European Acheulean-bearing hominins. This cranium is represented by most of the right half of a calvarium (with the exception of the missing occipital bone) and a fragmentary right maxilla preserving part of the nasal floor and two fragmentary molars. The combination of traits in the Aroeira 3 cranium augments the previously documented diversity in the European Middle Pleistocene fossil record

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New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

Daura

Sanz

Arsuaga

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…It is suggested here that this would not be the case, when a single large fauna individual returns many more calories without the difficulties of hunting groups of hominins that were as intelligent and resourceful as the hunters (in their ability to fight back and evade pursuit). Rather, given the apparent scarcity of cannibalistic behaviour in the archaeological record within individual hominin populations, coupled with a picture of increasing social complexity from hominins during the early Pleistocene onwards, it is more likely that the motivations for cannibalistic episodes lay within complex cultural systems involving both intra-and inter-group dynamics and competition61320. Certainly, this conclusion would support interpretations from Gran Dolina relating to Homo antecessor 613.…”

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“…Certainly, this conclusion would support interpretations from Gran Dolina relating to Homo antecessor 613. The intriguing possibility of Homo erectus ritual cannibalism from l’Argo20 could further suggest that even the oldest episodes of cannibalism were social acts that had some cultural meaning for the consumers beyond an easy meal.…”

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“…For example, while varied practices of consumption have been identified amongst Neanderthal populations from Moula-Guercy (France)14, Cueva del Sidrón (Spain)15, Cueva del Boquete de Zafarraya (Spain)16, Padrelles (France)1718, and Troisième caverne of Goyet (Belgium)11, all are broadly interpreted as nutritional. A small number of studies also invoke ritual motivations to, for example, the Upper Palaeolithic episodes of cannibalism associated with Homo sapiens at Gough’s Cave (UK)91019 and, less certainly, at the potential Homo erectus site of Caune de l’Argo (France)520. Some sites, such as Krapina (Croatia), Brillenhöhle (Germany) and Monte Cicero (Italy), have served as useful cautionary tales, with initial behavioural interpretations of cannibalism being overturned once additional analyses were carried out on the hominin remains21222324 (although the cases of Krapina and Brillenhöhle remain controversial in that they may well now be cannibalism sites2526).…”

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Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic

Cole

2017

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Episodes of Palaeolithic cannibalism have frequently been defined as ‘nutritional’ in nature, but with little empirical evidence to assess their dietary significance. This paper presents a nutritional template that offers a proxy calorie value for the human body. When applied to the Palaeolithic record, the template provides a framework for assessing the dietary value of prehistoric cannibalistic episodes compared to the faunal record. Results show that humans have a comparable nutritional value to those faunal species that match our typical body weight, but significantly lower than a range of fauna often found in association with anthropogenically modified hominin remains. This could suggest that the motivations behind hominin anthropophagy may not have been purely nutritionally motivated. It is proposed here that the comparatively low nutritional value of hominin cannibalism episodes support more socially or culturally driven narratives in the interpretation of Palaeolithic cannibalism.

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“…Sin embargo, la mayor parte de las veces se trata de sitios con pocos restos humanos o en los que por la antigüedad de los hallazgos, el precario estado de las superficies óseas o la falta de información contextual, sólo es posible afirmar la manipulación humana de los cadáveres. Es el caso, entre otros, de Marillac (Le Mort, 1988), Neanderthal Feldhofer (Schmitz y Pieper, 1992), Zhokoudian (Boaz y Ciochon, 2004), L'Aragó (Lumley, 2015) o Krapina y Vindija (Russell, 1987;Ullrich, 1989).…”

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Canibalismo en el Pleistoceno. Canibalism during the Pleistocene

Fernández-Lomana

Romero

2016

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RESUMENEl consumo de miembros de la misma especie acontece en numerosos organismos y debió ser practicado por los humanos durante la Prehistoria, aunque su reconocimiento arqueológico es difícil. En muchas ocasiones podemos demostrar la intervención sobre los cuerpos, pero no si hubo ingesta de la carne. Tampoco es sencillo saber las causas concretas de cada acción de canibalismo, debido a que las evidencias halladas suelen ser magras y pueden interpretarse bajo diferentes hipótesis (equifinalidad). Hemos avanzado mucho en la caracterización de las señales dejadas por el empleo de armas y cuchillos sobre los cuerpos, pero nuestra complejidad cultural produce dificultades para definir las motivaciones de los comportamientos pretéritos.Trataremos de actualizar las evidencias que poseemos sobre antropofagia en el registro arqueológico, en particular para los períodos más antiguos y para el ámbito ibérico, tratando de plantear posibles motivos en cada caso y ver si hay patrones o tendencias a nivel de especie, época, sistema económico o creencias.Los casos documentados parecen avalar un canibalismo de tipo gastronómico entre los cazadores-recolectores simples, al que se le reviste de ritualidad entre los cazadores complejos. De todas formas, desde sus primeras manifestaciones en Atapuerca TD6, apreciamos una clara consciencia en la identificación y distinción de los seres humanos respecto a otras presas por parte de los homininos.Nada parece indicarnos territorialidad o violencia reiterada durante el Paleolítico. Las redes de intercambio y la reciprocidad debieron amortiguar los conflictos en épocas de escasez o en procesos de fisión-fusión de los grupos.PALABRAS CLAVE: canibalismo, violencia, sociedad humana, tafonomía, Pleistoceno ABSTRACT Consumption of members of the same species occurs in many organisms and it must have been practiced by humans during Prehistory, although archaeological evidence for this is scant. It is

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L’homme de Tautavel. Un Homo erectus européen évolué. Homo erectus tautavelensis

Cited by 54 publications

References 19 publications

New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic

Canibalismo en el Pleistoceno. Canibalism during the Pleistocene

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