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The Neandertal bone industry at Chagyrskaya cave, Altai Region, Russia
Baumann, Malvina; Plisson, Hugues; Rendu, William et al.
2020In Quaternary International, 559, p. 68-88
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Keywords :
Neandertal; Bone industry; Technology; Chagyrskaya; Altai
Abstract :
[en] For a long time, the rich bone industries of the Upper Palaeolithic were opposed to the opportunistic Neandertal bone tools among which the bone retoucher was the most common type. The recent finding of a few shaped bone tools into Mousterian contexts has been taken as an emergence of a “modern behaviour”. However, this outlook is based on biased corpuses. On one side, the large number of unshaped bone tools recently discovered in Upper Palaeolithic assemblages leads us to reconsider what a bone industry can be. On the other side, the increasing discoveries of bone tools in more ancient contexts indicates that this type of production is not strictly linked to Homo sapiens. Chagyrskaya cave, located in the Siberian Altai, brings us the opportunity to discuss this question. Dated around 50,000 years BP, the site yielded a local facies of Mousterian lithic industry associated to several Neandertal remains. A technological and functional analysis of the faunal remains reveal more than one thousand bone tools. Most are retouchers, but a significant part belongs to other morpho-functional categories: intermediate tools, retouched tools and tools with a smoothed end. Even though these tools were mainly manufactured by direct percussion, their number and the recurrence of their morphological and traceological features lead us to consider them as a true bone industry. Far from the Homo sapiens standards, this industry has its own coherence that needs now to be understood.
Disciplines :
Archaeology
Author, co-author :
Baumann, Malvina  ;  Université Bordeaux 1 > UMR 5199 > PACEA
Plisson, Hugues;  Université Bordeaux 1 > UMR 5199 PACEA
Rendu, William;  Université Bordeaux 1 > UMR 5199 PACEA
Maury, Serge
Kolobova, Kseniya;  Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Krivoshapkin, Andrey;  Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Language :
English
Title :
The Neandertal bone industry at Chagyrskaya cave, Altai Region, Russia
Publication date :
September 2020
Journal title :
Quaternary International
ISSN :
1040-6182
eISSN :
1873-4553
Publisher :
Elsevier, United Kingdom
Special issue title :
Current Research on Prehistoric Central Asia
Volume :
559
Pages :
68-88
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
Fyssen Foundation
RFBR - Russian Foundation for Basic Research
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