Malvina Baumann- Phd
- scientific collaborator at University of Liège
Malvina Baumann
- Phd
- scientific collaborator at University of Liège
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Neanderthal-AMH Bone Industries
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The use of bone tools in contexts predating the Upper Paleolithic of Homo sapiens in Eurasia is no longer subject to debate. However, the recent evidence highlighting significant Neanderthal bone industries demonstrates that this phenomenon has been largely underestimated. A re-evaluation of each assemblage through a systematic search for bone arti...
When they are occasionally found in Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal settlements, lithic weapons heads are large and do not differ in size, shaping or type from those used for activities other than hunting, such as plant gathering or butchery. The presence in a same assemblage of various types of armatures, some of which are microlithic and designed...
Notre connaissance des outils et des armes en os, bois de cervidé et ivoire du Solutréen a longtemps reposé sur les collectes de fouilles menées entre la fin du 19e et le début du 20e siècle (Henri-Martin 1928 ; Peyrony 1932 ; Cheynier 1949), c’est-à-dire, sur des ensembles biaisés par un ramassage sélectif au profit des plus beaux objets. Les rare...
The use of organic knapping tools during the Palaeolithic was considered early on by prehistorians based on the discovery of Mousterian bone retouchers and experimental tests. Systematic experiments have since demonstrated that various organic knapping tools can be used not only for retouching but also for the complete shaping of lithic artefacts a...
Did Neanderthal produce a bone industry? The recent discovery of a large bone tool assemblage at the Neanderthal site of Chagyrskaya (Altai, Siberia, Russia) and the increasing discoveries of isolated finds of bone tools in various Mousterian sites across Eurasia stimulate the debate. Assuming that the isolate finds may be the tip of the iceberg an...
Did Neanderthal produce a bone industry? The recent discovery of a large bone tool assemblage at the Neanderthal site of Chagyrskaya (Altai, Siberia, Russia) and the increasing discoveries of isolated finds of bone tools in various Mousterian sites across Eurasia stimulate the debate. Assuming that the isolate finds may be the tip of the iceberg an...
Did Neanderthal produce a bone industry? The recent discovery of a large bone tool assemblage at the Neanderthal site of Chagyrskaya (Altai, Siberia, Russia) and the increasing discoveries of isolated finds of bone tools in various Mousterian sites across Eurasia stimulate the debate. Assuming that the isolate finds may be the tip of the iceberg an...
During the MIS 4 in Southwestern France, Quina Neanderthal from the north of the Aquitaine was characterized by a hunting specialization on the reindeer and the lack of diversity in their diet. They developed task-specific locations dedicated to the capture, the butchery, and the consumption of reindeer, and the whole society seems, in this region,...
The Solutrean lithic industry is well-known for its pressure-shaped lithic points, however, for more than a century, only a few specimens of possible pressure-flakers have been mentioned in the literature. Ethnography, experimental pressure flaking and, by analogy, more recent archaeological contexts, provide samples of pressure-flakers. They are m...
When studying bone retouchers, researchers pay close attention to the morphological characteristics of the tool's active zone, and the lithic raw material processed. In our research, we found that the orientation of the bone retoucher in the hand and the grip employed to retain and manipulate it are crucial factors that affect the morphological cha...
The burials at the Neolithic cemetery Kadruka 23 in Sudan have yielded adornments and bone and lithic artefacts that occur as distinct stages of the chaîne opératoire . This article reports on a hitherto unrecognised funerary practice that highlights the importance of craftsmanship for Neolithic communities in life and beyond.
Bone retouchers are the most common tools for processing lithic raw material in the Middle Paleolithic of Eurasia. Typically, they are perceived by Paleolithic researchers as informal, unmodifi ed tools made from bone blanks accidentally obtained during the extraction of marrow. In this article, we introduce new data on a large collection of bone r...
Bone retouchers are the most common tools for processing lithic raw material in the Middle Paleolithic of Eurasia. Typically, they are perceived by Paleolithic researchers as informal, unmodifi ed tools made from bone blanks accidentally obtained during the extraction of marrow. In this article, we introduce new data on a large collection of bone r...
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 c...
Here, we apply geometric-morphometric shape analysis to Middle Paleolithic bone retouchers from Chagyrskaya Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Russia. The cave contains evidence of the easternmost manifestation of the Micoquian industry, associated with Neanderthals at end of MIS4 and the beginning of MIS3. Taphonomic and scar pattern analyses...
Le site de la grotte Rochefort fait partie des quelque cinquante gisements solutréens français ayant livré du matériel sur matières dures d’origine animale. Dans ce cadre, il présente deux intérêts majeurs. En premier lieu, il est l’un des rares sites aux côtés de Combe-Saunière (Sarliac-sur-l’Isle, Dordogne ; Geneste, 1978-88), du Cuzoul-de-Vers (...
Our project for the cave of La Mouthe incorporates a current dynamic of rereading rock art sites, and developing new problems of analysis. The knowledge acquired since the 1990s on archaeological data, with the discovery of major sites for prehistoric art, as well as methodological, with advances in radiocarbon dating, microanalyses of materials an...
On the eve of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM: 23-19 cal ky BP), several profound changes occurred with respect to technical systems. These changes are illustrated in France by the transition between the Solutrean and Badegoulian complexes. In this geographical area, there is no evidence of the “desolutreanization” phenomenon documented in the Iberia...
In France, the Middle Gravettian (ca. 32-29 ka cal. BP) is characterized by two “facies” principally defined on the basis of their lithic industries : the Noaillian is recognized by the presence of Noailles burins and the Rayssian, which has become better recognized since the 2000s, is characterized by a particular method of reducing Raysse nuclei...
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 c...
This data includes:
1) A complete technological description of the needles assemblage from Shuidonggou Locality 12 (SDG12) and the associated manufacturing by-products;
2) A detailed description of the lithic and faunal remains found at SDG12; and
3) A database of Eurasian and North American Pleistocene sites that have yielded bone needles.
When, how, and following which paths hominins created the innovations that allowed them to colonize regions of the planet that were not suited to their thermal physiology is still a matter of inquiry. In this paper, we elaborate a theoretical framework to investigate the origin and diversification of bone needles, summarize the evidence for their e...
New data from Strashnaya Cave have revealed previously unknown complexity in hominin occupation of the Altai Mountains, including the first regional evidence for the presence of anatomically modern humans.
Excavations undertaken in the upper portion of the Pleistocene deposits from South Chamber of Denisova Cave yielded a set of bone tools in association with numerous stone artifacts. The Middle Palaeolithic layer 12 revealed bone retouchers and a retouched bone fragment. Along with lightly modified bone tools such as retouchers and retouched pieces,...
Paleolithic sites in Altai became widely known not only due to the unique paleoanthropological remains, but also because of the discovery of the traces of the non-utilitarian activity of the earliest ancient humans. In the Initial Upper Paleolithic complexes from the Denisova Cave, a numerous assemblage of ornaments and tools made of bone and antle...
Les gisements solutréens découverts ces dernières décennies n'ont livré que peu d'information sur les activités liées au travail des matières osseuses. Ainsi, l'industrie osseuse solutréenne est surtout connue au travers des collections archéologiques constituées durant la première moitié du XX e , soit au travers d'ensembles généralement décontext...
Solutrean bone industry from Rochefort Cave (Saint-Pierre-sur-Erve, Mayenne, France). Recently discovered Solutrean sites has provided little data about bone working. Solutrean bone industry is mainly known through old archaeological collections from the first half of the XXth century or out of context and very incomplete. Resumed of ancient excava...
2014)-À l'ombre des feuilles de laurier, les équipements osseux solutréens du Sud-Ouest de la France : apports et limites des collections anciennes. Thèse de doctorat soutenue le 10 décembre 2014 à l'université de Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, devant le jury composé de Jean-Michel Geneste (président, conservateur général du Patrimoine), Nicole Pigeot...
Le Solutréen est une chronoculture du Paléolithique supérieur identifiée en France et dans la péninsule ibérique entre 25000 et 23000 cal BP. Son industrie lithique est immédiatement reconnaissable à ses pointes foliacées, souvent retouchées par pression. Son industrie osseuse, en revanche, est considérée comme peu spécifique. En réalité, peu de ch...
De l'équipement à la parure, quelques éléments de distinction des industries osseuses solutréennes Résumé : Les industries en matières dures animales solutréennes ont longtemps fait figure d'ensembles pauvres et peu caractéristiques. Le réexamen de plusieurs collections anciennes nous permet aujourd'hui de reconsidérer ce point de vue. À partir des...
In the course of the Upper Paleolithic, antler debitage techniques seem to have followed a linear evolution. The earliest one, fracturing by cleaving, appeared during the Aurignacian and is considered by some specialists to be ineffective. According to them, it was not until the invention of the groove and splinter technique during the Gravettian t...
En este art?culo presentamos un estado actual de la cuesti?n en relaci?n a la posici?ncronocultural de las denominadas industrias con piezas de Bertonne en el seno delPaleol?tico superior de Europa occidental. Atribuidas en un primer momento alAuri?aciense (Leyssalles y Noone 1949), m?s tarde al Protosolutrense (Arambourou1970), estas industrias ha...
n In this article we present a overview of current knowledge regarding the chronocultural position of industries with La Bertonne pieces within the Western European Upper Paleolithic. Initially attributed to the Aurignacian (Leyssalles and Noone 1949) and then to the Proto-Solutrean (Arambourou 1970), these industries are now attributed to the Bade...
Le site du Roc de Sers (Sers, Charente, France) a livré près de 224 artefacts en matières osseuses : 122 objets finis et 100 déchets de production. Ils proviennent majoritairement des fouilles menées par le Dr Henri-Martin (HENRI-MARTIN 1928) dans différents loci du gisement. Á partir du matériel lithique et sur la base d'une datation 14 C à 19 230...
Le site magdalénien d’Aurensan (Hautes-pyrénées) a livré plus de 189 pièces en matières dures animales. Il s’agit d’objets finis et de déchets de production majoritairement sur bois de renne. Ce matériel, issu de fouilles anciennes, a été attribué à un Magdalénien moyen/supérieur (DELPORTE 1974). Nous avons tenté de préciser cette attribution chron...
