Mathilde Samsel- PhD
- Researcher at University of Bordeaux
Mathilde Samsel
- PhD
- Researcher at University of Bordeaux
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Microévolution et bioarchéologie des groupes humains de la fin du Pléistocène et du début de l'Holocène en Europe occidentale : apports de l'anthropologie biologique aux connaissances sur le Paléolithique final et le Mésolithique.
Microevolution and bioarchaeology of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Western European human populations: Biological anthropological insights into the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
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La fin du Pléistocène et le début de l’Holocène sont marqués par des bouleversements environnementaux d’une ampleur et d’une intensité exceptionnelles en Europe de l’Ouest. Ces quelque huit millénaires ont été scindés en périodes chronoculturelles principalement à partir de critères typotechnologiques de l’industrie lithique, correspondant au Paléo...
External auditory exostoses (EAE) have been noted among the Neandertals and a few other Pleistocene humans, but until recently they have been discussed primary as minor pathological lesions with possible auditory consequences. An assessment of available western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene human temporal bones with sufficiently preserv...
Using cross-sectional geometry (CSG), entheseal changes (ECs), and presence of external auditory meatus exostosis (EAE), this study tests the hypothesis—based on isotopic and zooarchaeological evidence—that in the Sicilian Mesolithic terrestrial rather than marine resources were predominantly exploited, in substantial continuity with previous Epigr...
Archaeologically defined Upper Palaeolithic (UP, 45,000-10,000 years ago) "cultures" are often used as proxies to designate fossil populations. While recent genomic studies have partly clarified the complex relationship between European UP "cultures" and past population dynamics, they leave open numerous questions regarding the biological character...
Caverne X in Waulsort (Namur province, Belgium), excavated in the 19 th century, revealed a burial site which was unexpectedly dated to the Final Upper Paleolithic (10,820 ± 80 BP, OxA-6856) in the 1990's. A re-examination of the collection and a new radiocarbon dating program was recently undertaken. The dates obtained on four left femurs (9285 ±...
La fin du Pléistocène et le début de l’Holocène sont marqués par des bouleversements environnementaux d’une ampleur et d’une intensité exceptionnelles en Europe de l’Ouest. Ces quelque huit millénaires ont été scindés en périodes chronoculturelles principalement à partir de critères typotechnologiques de l’industrie lithique, correspondant au Paléo...
This article reports on a complete left human humerus from the Cussac Cave (Dordogne, France), dating to the Gravettian, or Mid-Upper Palaeolithic. This humerus is characterised by a very marked retroversion, significant intracortical porosity, an unusual morphology and orientation of the medial epicondyle, and a marked depression at the bottom of...
The incomplete cranium discovered at the Zlatý kůň site in the Bohemian Karst is a rare piece of skeletal evidence of human presence in Central Europe during the Late Glacial period. The relative position of cranial fragments was restored and missing parts of the cranium were virtually reconstructed using mirroring and the Thin-plate splines algori...
Upper Paleolithic comparative sample.
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List of anatomical landmarks and semilandmarks used in different steps of reconstruction.
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Descriptive statistics of cranial measurements for UP sample with values for Zlatý kůň.
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Video illustration of the skull reconstruction.
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Supplementary bibliography.
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Many studies dealing with mandibular morphology and dental wear have shown that agriculturalists experience reduced masticatory stress and show changes in form and degree of occlusal wear when compared to hunter-gatherers. Multiple major sociocultural and economic changes occurred with the “Neolithic revolution,” and the intense and rapid environme...
La fin du Pléistocène et le début de l’Holocène sont marqués par des bouleversements environnementaux d’une ampleur et d’une intensité exceptionnelles en Europe de l’Ouest. Ces quelque huit millénaires ont été scindés en périodes chronoculturelles principalement à partir de critères typotechnologiques de l’industrie lithique, correspondant au Paléo...
La fin du Pléistocène et le début de l’Holocène sont marqués par des bouleversements environnementaux d’une ampleur et d’une intensité exceptionnelles en Europe de l’Ouest. Ces quelque huit millénaires ont été scindés en périodes chronoculturelles principalement à partir de critères typotechnologiques de l’industrie lithique, correspondant au Paléo...
One of several elements making Cussac cave an exceptional site is the preservation of many prehistoric human remains lying on the ground, including an individual in a bear nest (Locus 2) in ventral decubitus, subject L2A. The protected status of the site does not allow for excavations or direct manipulation of the remains, at least for the near fut...
Studies on skeletal morphology and ancient DNA suggest that the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM, ca. 23,000 to 19,000 cal. BP) had a major impact on the behavior, morphological features, and population composition of European populations. In southwestern France, four primary burials are directly dated to 19,500-18,000 cal. BP and attributed to the Middle...
This article presents the main skeletal characteristics of the two largely unpublished Gravettian adult skeletons from Baousso da Torre (Liguria, Italy). BT1 and BT2 were two adult tall males, who died aged respectively between 20 and 50 years, and between 20 and 30 years. Their body proportions fall within the range of variation known for the midd...
The Final Palaeolithic is considered to date between ca. 12.5 and 9.6 ky calBC, and it is defined by significant climate fluctuations. The Mesolithic extends between ca. 9.6 and 5.5 ky calBC, and it is characterized by a temperate environment similar to the current one. For some researchers, Mesolithic populations share continuity with Final Palaeo...
Cette note propose une réévaluation de la diagnose
sexuelle et de la détermination de l’âge au décès de l’individu
azilien Le Peyrat 5 (LP5) [Dordogne, France] daté directement
à 11430 ± 150 BP (GifA-99117 ; 13566–13017 cal.
BP) à partir de méthodes fiables appliquées à l’os coxal. Cette
étude confirme que le squelette LP5 est celui d’un homme
adul...
Les outils tridimensionnels permettent aujourd’hui de garantir l’intégrité des vestiges osseux tout en autorisant l’acquisition de données quantitatives de façon répétée. Toutefois, la précision et la fiabilité des données obtenues sont directement dépendantes de la précision de ces outils, des modèles virtuels créés ainsi que du placement des poin...
Les outils tridimensionnels permettent aujourd’hui de garantir l’intégrité des vestiges osseux tout en autorisant l’acquisition de données quantitatives de façon répétée. Toutefois, la précision et la fiabilité des données obtenues sont directement dépendantes de la précision de ces outils, des modèles virtuels créés ainsi que du placement des poin...
In palaeopathology, the diagnosis of spondyloarthropathies traditionally relies on the association of three types of skeletal lesions: erosive and proliferative modifications of the sacroiliac joint, formation of vertebral syndesmophytes and erosive and proliferative changes in peripheral joints. These conditions can therefore be recognised only in...
