1. Evidence for previously unknown mortuary practices in the Southwest of France (Fournol, Lot) during the Gravettian
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Mona Le Luyer, Laurent Crépin, Emmy Bocaege, Jean-Baptiste Caverne, Mathieu Rué, Stéphane Madelaine, André Morala, Sébastien Villotte, De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Paléotime, Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes (ASM), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), Musée National de Préhistoire, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC), ANR-15-CE33-0004,GRAVETT'OS,Biologie, pathologie et comportements des Gravettiens : du squelette aux interprétations palethnologiques(2015), and Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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010506 paleontology ,Archeology ,Grave goods ,Taphonomy ,[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory ,060102 archaeology ,Mid Upper Paleolithic ,Disarticulation ,[SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology ,Mortuary practices ,Ornaments ,06 humanities and the arts ,medicine.disease ,01 natural sciences ,Archaeology ,cut marks ,Geography ,post-mortem treatment ,medicine ,Upper Paleolithic ,Cannibalism ,0601 history and archaeology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
International audience; European Mid Upper Paleolithic mortuary practices have been traditionally associated with primary burials, ochre, body ornaments and grave goods. Recently, evidence of the post-mortem treatment of skeletal remains, such as the displacement and removal of skeletal elements, has been reported for the Gravettian period in the Southwest of France. Here, we present the preliminary results of anthropological and taphonomic analyses of the human remains from the Gravettian site of Fournol (Soturac, Lot, France). We describe the first evidence of the scalping and disarticulation of human remains, a previously unknown post-mortem treatment in Gravettian contexts from the South West of France.
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