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TI Presumed Symbolic Use of Diurnal Raptors by Neanderthals
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AF MORIN, Eugene
   LAROULANDIE, Veronique
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C1 Trent Univ, Dept Anthropol, Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada.
   Univ Bordeaux, UMR 5199, CNRS, PACEA, Talence, France.
C2 UNIV TRENT, CANADA
   UNIV BORDEAUX, FRANCE
IN DOAJ
IF 3.73
TC 120
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00266/37677/35792.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR IMAGES 1-MD101
BO Marion Dufresne
AB In Africa and western Eurasia, occurrences of burials and utilized ocher fragments during the late Middle and early Late Pleistocene are often considered evidence for the emergence of symbolically-mediated behavior. Perhaps less controversial for the study of human cognitive evolution are finds of marine shell beads and complex designs on organic and mineral artifacts in early modern human (EMH) assemblages conservatively dated to approximate to 100-60 kilo-years (ka) ago. Here we show that, in France, Neanderthals used skeletal parts of large diurnal raptors presumably for symbolic purposes at Combe-Grenal in a layer dated to marine isotope stage (MIS) 5b (approximate to 90 ka) and at Les Fieux in stratigraphic units dated to the early/middle phase of MIS 3 (60-40 ka). The presence of similar objects in other Middle Paleolithic contexts in France and Italy suggest that raptors were used as means of symbolic expression by Neanderthals in these regions.
PY 2012
PD MAR
SO Plos One
SN 1932-6203
PU Public Library Science
VL 7
IS 3
UT 000303017700114
DI 10.1371/journal.pone.0032856
ID 37677
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