AnthropologiePub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2026-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103447
Marcel Otte
{"title":"Arts rupestres protohistoriques du Zagros et les peuples indo-européens asiatiques","authors":"Marcel Otte","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103447","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103447","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ibex topic runs over all the Zagros valleys and mountains, not only as engravings and paintings, but also appearing as pottery decorations and silver statuettes. According to mythology, it embodies speed and agility, often found in the same regions. Here we present various examples found during our research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"130 1","pages":"Article 103447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147395191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnthropologiePub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103427
Álvaro Ibero , Miguel Polledo González
{"title":"Un nouvel ensemble de manifestations pariétales sur le panneau principal de la grotte de Tito Bustillo (Asturies, Espagne)","authors":"Álvaro Ibero , Miguel Polledo González","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103427","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103427","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article presents a previously unpublished set of parietal representations located on the Main Panel of the Tito Bustillo cave. Documentation work has revealed the existence of numerous engravings, paintings, and drawings depicting some of the most common themes in Cantabrian palaeolithic art (hind, horse, aurochs, and signs, among others), as well as much more exceptional ones (bear, feline, or female figure). The analysis of the parietal stratigraphy, combined with the context setting of their formal characteristics, has allowed us to identify a complex and extensive graphic sequence that delineates some of the mechanisms of graphical composition that participated in the ongoing construction of the Main Panel for more than twenty thousand years. Moreover, comparing it with figures from other geographical contexts sheds light on the symbolic links between the different communities of the European Palaeolithic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"130 1","pages":"Article 103427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145624927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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AnthropologiePub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2026-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103453
Henry de Lumley
{"title":"","authors":"Henry de Lumley","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103453","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103453","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"130 1","pages":"Article 103453"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147709445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnthropologiePub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2026-04-10DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103458
Clélia Paladre
{"title":"Les sceaux-cylindres","authors":"Clélia Paladre","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103458","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103458","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cylinder seals, which emerged at the end of the 4th millennium BCE between Mesopotamia and Iran, are small engraved cylinders used to roll images onto clay. Used for nearly three millennia, they played a key role in administrative procedures and the assertion of political legitimacy. Initially tools of management, they later evolved into personal signatures and prestige items. Their iconographic repertoire offers crucial insights into ancient Near Eastern societies. Crafted from diverse materials, they reflect remarkable artisanal skill and complex networks of exchange. Today, interdisciplinary research and digital tools such as 3D modeling provide new perspectives on these artifacts and their multiple identities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"130 1","pages":"Article 103458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147656356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnthropologiePub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103432
Henry de Lumley
{"title":"Les grandes étapes de l’évolution culturelle de l’Homme sur le littoral méditerranéen, en Ligurie, en Principauté de Monaco, en Provence, en Languedoc méditerranéen, en Roussillon et en Catalogne","authors":"Henry de Lumley","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103432","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103432","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous prehistoric sites have been discovered along the Mediterranean coastline, from Liguria to Catalonia, via southeastern France, allowing us to trace the major stages in the cultural evolution of early humans within their paleoenvironments, since their arrival on the southern shores of Europe just over a million years ago. These sites include the Vallonnet cave in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the Caune de l’Arago in Tautavel, the Terra Amata site in Nice, the Orgnac 3 site in Ardèche, the Observatoire cave in Monaco, the Lazaret cave in Nice, the Prince cave, the Cavillon cave, the Enfants cave under the Baousse Rousse cliff in Ventimiglia, the Madonna dell’Arma cave near San Remo, and the Hortus cave in Valflaunès have been the subject of major excavation projects that have made it possible to track environmental and climatic changes throughout the Quaternary period, taking into account pollen and anthracological studies, studies of large mammal and microvertebrate fauna, sedimentological analyses, isotopic stages, δ<sup>18</sup>0/<sup>16</sup>0 ratios in marine shells, paleomagnetic data, and radiochronological and biogeochemical dating.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"129 5","pages":"Article 103432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnthropologiePub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103424
Khalid El Guennouni
{"title":"Les lapins du Pléistocène moyen (genre Oryctolagus) du sud-est de la France : étude taphonomique des lapins du site de plein air de Terra Amata et de la grotte du Lazaret","authors":"Khalid El Guennouni","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study concerns the rabbits (<em>Oryctolagus cuniculus</em>) of the Middle Pleistocene coming from two sites of the south-east of France: the open-air site of Terra Amata and the Lazaret cave, both located in the city of Nice. The Terra Amata site yielded 819 remains attributed to rabbits, compared to more than 12,000 remains at Lazaret. In both sites, we find almost all of the rabbit's anatomical elements. The aim is to determine the origin of the rabbit accumulations by cross-referencing the results of several analytical methods: analysis of age classes, spatial distribution, condition of bone surfaces (cut marks, burns, carnivore marks), and fragmentation of long bones. At Terra Amata, the assemblage, composed almost exclusively of adults, shows the presence of cut marks on some bones and the absence of traces of digestion: these elements suggest an exclusively anthropogenic origin. The Lazaret assemblage, on the other hand, has mixed characteristics: while some cuts and burns indicate human consumption, the majority of the remains appear to come from the pellets of nocturnal birds of prey (probably the eagle owl), supplemented by a few contributions from small carnivores. The study reveals the diversity of accumulation processes and highlights the difficulty of interpreting lagomorph fossil assemblages without cross-referencing the results of different analytical methods. Nevertheless, it confirms that humans in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic occasionally consumed rabbit, even if this practice remained marginal and not generalised.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"129 5","pages":"Article 103424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145520200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnthropologiePub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103413
Olivier Notter, Elena Rossoni-Notter
{"title":"Contributions du Musée d’Anthropologie préhistorique de Monaco à l’étude du Paléolithique méditerranéen. Nouvelles recherches dans les grottes d’Aldène (Hérault, France), du Prince de Monaco (Ligurie, Italie), de l’Observatoire et de Saint-Martin (Principauté de Monaco)","authors":"Olivier Notter, Elena Rossoni-Notter","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103413","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103413","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology of Monaco conducts research in the Aldène Cave (Hérault, France), the Prince of Monaco Cave (Liguria, Italy), and the Observatoire and Saint-Martin Caves (Principality of Monaco). From France to Mediterranean Italy, via the Principality of Monaco, these scientific programmes are carried out both in the field and in the laboratory, guided by new technologies and international collaborations. The multidisciplinary results contribute to our understanding of the behaviors and life ways of prehistoric groups between 500,000 and 15,000<!--> <!-->years ago.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"129 5","pages":"Article 103413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnthropologiePub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103414
Fabio Negrino , Julien Riel-Salvatore , Stefano Benazzi , Claudine Gravel-Miguel , Jamie Hodgkins , Christopher Miller , Caley Orr , Marco Peresani , Geneviève Pothier-Bouchard , David Strait
{"title":"Nouvelles recherches et données sur les sites liguriens du Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Imperia) et de l’Arma Veirana (Erli, Savona)","authors":"Fabio Negrino , Julien Riel-Salvatore , Stefano Benazzi , Claudine Gravel-Miguel , Jamie Hodgkins , Christopher Miller , Caley Orr , Marco Peresani , Geneviève Pothier-Bouchard , David Strait","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103414","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103414","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper is a synthesis of some of the most recent results concerning the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Liguria. The outcomes from the excavations in the Late Mousterian (45–42 ky cal BP) and the Protoaurignacian (41.5–36 ky cal BP) levels at Riparo Bombrini (Ventimiglia, Imperia) and in the Mousterian (60–50 ky cal BP) and the Early Mesolithic (10 ky cal BP) levels at Arma Veirana (Erli, Savona) are presented.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"129 5","pages":"Article 103414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145364675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnthropologiePub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-10-08DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103408
Salvador Bailon , Alaric Manzano , Christian Sánchez-Bandera , Hugues-Alexandre Blain
{"title":"Herpétofaunes en contexte archéologique au cours des derniers 1,5 Ma dans le domaine méditerranéen ; biodiversité et données climatiques et environnementales dérivées de leur étude","authors":"Salvador Bailon , Alaric Manzano , Christian Sánchez-Bandera , Hugues-Alexandre Blain","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103408","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103408","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amphibians and reptiles provide essential information in Quaternary climatic and environmental reconstructions. In this work, we propose a synthesis of the current knowledge about the paleoherpetofauna of seven major archaeological sites of the Mediterranean domain of Western Europe: Barranco León, Fuente Nueva, Grotte du Vallonnet, Caune de l’Arago, Terra Amata, Grotte du Lazaret and Baume Moula-Guercy. The application of different methods of paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstruction allows us to infer some climatic and landscape parameters in which the different European hominin populations developed. A great climatic and environmental variability is highlighted during the last 1.5 Ma, although never subjected to extreme conditions on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and allows us to apprehend the great adaptive capacity of prehistoric populations in the face of adverse conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"129 5","pages":"Article 103408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}