Audrey Prucca

• Les Loups du Gévaudan

Les accumulations osseuses produites par les activités de boucherie des groupes humains du Paléolithiques ont pu être la source de nourriture d’autres animaux. Si de nombreux travaux visant à mesurer l’impact des grands carnivores africains (hyène, lion) sur des amas de boucherie sont aujourd’hui disponibles, un nombre plus limité concerne les carn...

Noisetier Cave (French Pyrenees) has yielded Mousterian artefacts associated with numerous faunal remains. The faunal spectrum is dominated by chamois and ibex followed by red deer and bovids. A previous taphonomic analysis underlined the occurrence of two distinct types of bone accumulations.The red deer, bovid and a part of the ibex remains have...

Large Carnivore neotaphonomy is used to provide guidelines for understanding fossil bone assemblages. However, few studies have been carried out on the taphonomic signatures of wolves (Canis lupus) in their natural settings. From 2001 to 2007, 56 wolf feeding places were studied in 2 geographic areas of Poland (Bialowieza, Bieszczady). We recorded...

Noisetier Cave (French Pyrenees) has yielded Mousterian artefacts associated with numerous faunal remains. The faunal spectrum is dominated by chamois and ibex followed by red deer and bovids. A previous taphonomic analysis underlined the occurrence of two distinct types of bone accumulations. The red deer, bovid and a part of the ibex remains have...

Role and origin of large carnivores in natural accumulations. The case of wolves (Canis lupus) from the pleistocene trap of Igue du Gral (Sauliac-sur-Célé, Lot, France).- The Igue, or pit-fall, du Gral has yielded abundant Latest Glacial faunal remains. The largest sequence is dominated by reindeer and horse, followed by a smaller number of bison a...

The Igue, or pit-fall, du Gral has yielded abundant Latest Glacial faunal remains. The largest sequence is dominated by reindeer and horse, followed by a smaller number of bison associated with a diverse variety of other species. The red deer occupies a level at the top of the deposit. The archaeological evidence indicates that the species identifi...

The Pêcheurs cave is a unique example of a Middle Palaeolithic site with three kinds of accumulations: (1) ibex that died in a natural trap, (2) carnivores that died within the cavity, and, (3) a series of short-term occupations by humans who left a few artifacts and a hearth area. Biological patterns of ibex remains (skeletal parts, age) show a ho...

The Pêcheurs cave is a unique example of a Middle Palaeolithic site with three kinds of accumulations: (1) ibex that died in a natural trap, (2) carnivores that died within the cavity, and, (3) a series of short-term occupations by humans who left a few artifacts and a hearth area. Biological patterns of ibex remains (skeletal parts, age) show a ho...