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AUTHOR
Jean-baptiste Mallye
The DeerPal project: humans and deer during the Palaeolithic, integrating the variability of prey ecology and ethology in the investigation of past human – environment interactions
International audience
Des traces et des hommes : projet interdisciplinaire pour interpréter les comportements techno-économiques des Néandertaliens
Cette contribution expose les problematiques du PCR « Des Traces et des Hommes », un projet de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les modalites d’acquisition et de traitement des matieres vegetales et animales au Paleolithique moyen en Europe occidentale. Elle presente brievement les differentes experimentations effectuees entre 2007 et 2009 et les resultats preliminaires obtenus dans chacun des themes developpes.
Identifying fossil rabbit warrens: Insights from a taphonomical analysis of a modern warren
14 pages; International audience; The European rabbit is a small burrowing mammal that is particularly abundant in Western Europe since the Pleistocene and introduced around the world over the last few centuries. Rabbit bones are regularly recovered from archaeological and palaeontological sites; however, demonstrating their contemporaneity with associated material is often difficult. Additionally, determining the origin of rabbit remains in fossil sites is equally problematic due to the lack of reference collections for natural accumulations. In order to address these issues, we excavated a modern rabbit warren in southwestern France using modern archaeological field methods and techniques…