AnthropologiePub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103269
Gennady A. Khlopachev
{"title":"Geometric images in portable art of the Upper Paleolithic of Eastern Europe: Some cultural, chronological and regional peculiarities","authors":"Gennady A. Khlopachev","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Abstract, geometric, and also ornamental images which could not be directly decrypted are one of plots of iconic portable art of Eastern Europe. This type of pictorial activity emerges already during the early phase of the Upper Paleolithic simultaneously with figurative art. Development of iconic and ornamental art could be traced in the Russian Plain during the whole Upper Paleolithic epoch. It was mostly widespread during the Middle (25–21,000 BP) and Late (20–12,000 BP) phases of the Upper Paleolithic. Geometric art existed side by side with tradition of realistic engravings of humans and animals during the Gravettian time, and it entirely displaces the latter after the Late Glacial maximum. The article systematizes data about ornamental geometric images of the center of the Russian Plain dealing with regional and chronological peculiarities of this type of art. Basing on the data of technical and morphological analyses the author suggests two criteria for differentiation of ornaments in portable art of the Gravettian and Epigravettian time: <strong>1.</strong> Presence/absence of organic combination of geometric and realistic elements in one image; <strong>2.</strong> Character and technique of zonal ornamentation of the surface of artefacts with complicated shape. Geometric ornamentation was engraved on the whole surface of artefacts with complicated shape with obligatory preliminary mark-up, and also use of one or several base lines for creation of such images at Epigravettian sites. Elements composing one geometric design could be engraved on artefacts with complex volume during different episodes, and consequently without preliminary preparation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 2","pages":"Article 103269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141023382","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103250
Stecy Meyeno-Ilougou
{"title":"Corrigendum à « Le site de Batanga centrale 2, dans la province de l’Ogooué-maritime (Gabon) : approche typo technologique du matériel lithique récolté en surface » [L’Anthropologie 127 (2023) 103221]","authors":"Stecy Meyeno-Ilougou","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 2","pages":"Article 103250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003552124000232/pdfft?md5=5012f3c988507197521fdae7bc78a87b&pid=1-s2.0-S0003552124000232-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141028251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnthropologiePub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103260
Mariia N. Zheltova
{"title":"“Houses” for the living and the dead in the Palaeolithic of Kostenki","authors":"Mariia N. Zheltova","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103260","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103260","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Kostenki-Borshchevo archaeological area on the river Don (Voronezh region/Russia) represents a unique concentration of Palaeolithic sites – from the earliest Upper Palaeolithic to the Late Palaeolithic. The remains of 60 settlements were found in the habitation levels of 21 sites (many of which are multi-layered). There is a rare concentration of dwellings and burials from the Palaeolithic period: the dwellings were found at 8 sites (Kostenki 1 (layer I), 2, 4, 8, 11, 13, 19, 21) and probably at three other sites (Kostenki 3, 9, 15). At sites where, undisputed dwellings have been found, certain other features have sometimes been found as well, in connection with which several questions have arisen concerning their interpretation as dwellings. Burials were found at six sites (Kostenki 1 (layer III), 2, 12, 14, 15, 18). This article is devoted to a review of the diversity of the structures of dwellings and of the funerary rites as reflected in the archaeology, because they provide the best indication of the ideas held by various groups of people about the structure of the world – the world of the living and the world of the dead.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 2","pages":"Article 103260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141043664","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103261
Konstantin N. Gavrilov
{"title":"Who lived in the Mammoth Bone Dwellings?","authors":"Konstantin N. Gavrilov","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103261","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103261","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article is devoted to the problem of interpretation of Mammoth Bone Dwellings. The author considers the history of the tradition to interpret bone structures as ruins of dwellings. He concludes that this interpretation was formulated <em>a priori</em>. The published data on the taphonomy of faunal remains, as well as on the stratigraphy of archaeological objects belonging to the Anosovo-Mezin bone construction, are analyzed in this paper. Currently available data allow concluding that this type of archaeological structure could not be interpreted as remnants of dwellings. Anosovo-Mezin bone constructions demonstrate the final stage of the very specific tradition that existed in the Palaeolithic of Central and Eastern Europe. There is every reason to believe that these objects were determined by the religious ideas of their creators.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 2","pages":"Article 103261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141024618","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103234
Yun Wu , Kaiwei Qiu , Qinghua Jin , Hong Dong , Ruxi Yang , Yanyi Chen , Hao Li , Hailan Che , Bin Cai , Hubert Forestier , Yuduan Zhou , Yinghua Li , Xueping Ji
{"title":"The Hoabinhian technocomplex in southwest China: Preliminary report on new discoveries in recent decades","authors":"Yun Wu , Kaiwei Qiu , Qinghua Jin , Hong Dong , Ruxi Yang , Yanyi Chen , Hao Li , Hailan Che , Bin Cai , Hubert Forestier , Yuduan Zhou , Yinghua Li , Xueping Ji","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103234","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103234","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent discoveries in Yunnan province have confirmed the presence of the Hoabinhian technocomplex in this southern part of China. Compared with the history of Hoabinhian research in Southeast Asia, which goes back almost a century with numerous Hoabinhian sites dating back to the late Upper Pleistocene and Holocene, southwest China is still a blank page on the Hoabinhian question until recent years. For the vast territory of Yunnan (394,000<!--> <!-->km<sup>2</sup>), we currently have only two published ancient Hoabinhian sites (Xiaodong rockshelter and Dedan cave) with reliable dating and typo-technological studies. To test the “Chinese Hoabinhian Homeland” hypothesis and the geo-strategic importance of Yunnan in migration routes to Southeast Asia, proposed in previous studies, modern archaeological methods should enable more sites in these southern Chinese regions to be discovered, excavated and studied. Firstly, fieldwork carried out in southwestern Yunnan in recent years (investigation, prospecting, excavation, etc.), where numerous lithic artefacts with Hoabinhian affinities have been collected, is discussed. The aim of this article is to present the typo-technological composition of these unpublished lithic assemblages from nine caves and open-air localities. Although we do not yet have precise stratigraphic information, their presence could nonetheless confirm the presence of the Hoabinhian lithic tradition in this region located in the upper reaches of the Mekong and Salween rivers within the most northerly humid tropical forest environment in Southeast Asia. Finally, we will discuss the diffusion strategy of Hoabinhian settlements in East Asia in a specific environmental and geographical context, as well as their possible dispersal along the river routes that irrigate and structure the relief of Southwest China and Peninsular Asia.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"Article 103234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139966325","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}
{"title":"Une nouvelle occurrence de l’Acheuléen pyrénéo-garonnais et la question de la régionalisation des productions lithiques à la fin du Pléistocène moyen : le site du Cassé à Cornebarrieu (Haute-Garonne)","authors":"Cyril Viallet , Paul Fernandes , Christelle Lahaye , Brice Lebrun , Mathieu Rué , Pascal Tallet","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103236","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An excavation at Le Cassé (Cornebarrieu, Haute-Garonne) has provided new data on Late Middle Pleistocene technical production on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees. Despite the fact that the site was developed in several phases, as revealed by the analysis of the surface conditions, the archaeological remains show a certain technological homogeneity. Raw materials were obtained from alluvial deposits on the lower and middle terraces of the Garonne. Some materials, such as quartz and quartzite from the Massif Central or the Montagne Noire, and silica from Verdier, testify to the wider area covered by the site. The petrographic composition is 97% quartzite and quartzite and 3% silica. A partial economy of raw materials is expressed by the use of silicites for Levallois reduction, which is rare, and for light tools on flakes, whereas 96% of heavy-duty tools are made of quartzite. The reduction processes are often non-standard, associated with alternating surface production and Discoid, often unifacial. Heavy duty tools, often on large flake blanks, include unifaces, bifaces and cleavers. Taken together, this data, placed in the context of the techno-complexes of the northern Pyrenees, suggests that the Cassé series belongs to the Acheulean “pyrénéo-garonnais”. In the broader context of the end of the Middle Pleistocene in southern Europe, the Cassé data supports the previously proposed hypothesis of a techno-cultural unit common to the north and south of the Pyrenees.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"Article 103236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140533796","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103231
Azita Mirzaye , Ali Sadraei
{"title":"First evidence of pleistocene hominin occupations in the Jovin-Joghatai plain, Northeast of the Iranian Plateau","authors":"Azita Mirzaye , Ali Sadraei","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103231","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As an intermediate region between the Central Iranian Plateau and Central Asia, the northeast of Iran was at the heart of Pleistocene populations’ movements between both regions. The Paleolithic survey conducted in the Jovin-Joghatai plain permitted to identify six sites. In this paper, these newfound sites are introduced and the raw material sources used at them are analyzed through petrographic tests before putting their surface assemblages into the context of the Paleolithic eastern Iran. The paper results in the identification of two sites characterized by the so-called pebble-tools. Notwithstanding some slight differences, the assemblages seem to be closed to those from the Paleolithic sites of northeast Iran, such as Abarvan in Kashafrud and Mushan Tepeh in Neyshabur as well as Kuldara in Tajikistan. On the other hand, they display disparities with the lithic industries of western Turkmenistan, Yangadja site as well as Dagh Jazireh in eastern Iran. The remaining four sites are attributable to the Middle Paleolithic on account of their affinities with centers in Central Asia such as Teshik-Tash in Uzbekistan, and Jahan Abad, Damghani, and Kalat-eShur in eastern Iran as well as the Mirak complex in the central plateau. Yet, no significant correlations seem to exist between the Middle Paleolithic industries of the Jovin-Joghatai plain and those of Kiaram and Khunik caves in eastern Iran.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"Article 103231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139894021","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103239
Henry de Lumley , Andréas Darlas , Dominique Cauche , Christian Perrenoud , Thibaud Saos , Christophe Falguères , Pierre Voinchet , Marie-Antoinette de Lumley , Gaspard Guipert , Christos Matzanas , Laëtitia Bertin , Khalid El Guennouni , Élisabeth Fauquembergue , Caroline Lemerle , Christelle Milizia , Paul-Louis Moigne
{"title":"Réflexions sur la datation des deux crânes humains Apidima 1 et Apidima 2 découverts dans la cavité Apidima A, Aréopoli, péninsule du Mani, Laconie, Péloponnèse, Grèce","authors":"Henry de Lumley , Andréas Darlas , Dominique Cauche , Christian Perrenoud , Thibaud Saos , Christophe Falguères , Pierre Voinchet , Marie-Antoinette de Lumley , Gaspard Guipert , Christos Matzanas , Laëtitia Bertin , Khalid El Guennouni , Élisabeth Fauquembergue , Caroline Lemerle , Christelle Milizia , Paul-Louis Moigne","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103239","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103239","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Apidima A cave, near Areópoli in the Peloponnese in Greece, has revealed two skulls of advanced <em>Homo erectus</em> or Anteneandertals, dated to around 170,000<!--> <!-->years ago (isotope stage 6). They were deposited side by side, at the bottom of the cave that was accessible at the time, close to the ceiling, in a narrow diaclase less than 50<!--> <!-->cm wide. Both have the same anatomical characteristics and belong to the same phyletic group. One, more robust than the other, was male and rested on the back of the skull, while the other, slightly more graceful, was female and rested on the face. No other human remains, or piece of lithic industry were associated with these skulls. Only three round pebbles, probably of marine origin, were found next to the skulls. They were intentionally deposited for ritual purposes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"Article 103239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140270619","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103238
par Tae Sop Cho , Chang Gyun Han , Sujin Kong , Christophe Falguères , Qingfeng Shao , Jean-Jacques Bahain
{"title":"Datation par U-Th LA-ICPMS-MC d’ossements du site de Geum-Gul, Corée du Sud","authors":"par Tae Sop Cho , Chang Gyun Han , Sujin Kong , Christophe Falguères , Qingfeng Shao , Jean-Jacques Bahain","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103238","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103238","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>New datings have been carried out on bones of the Geum-Gul cave in the city of Daniang in the Republic of Korea. The dating obtained by U-Th LA-ICPMS-MC give an age that is too recent in view of the handaxes, picks and chopper industries found in this cave. It is likely that the bones analyzed were enriched in uranium by infiltration water during regular flooding of the Nam Han River.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"Article 103238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140282141","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}
{"title":"Nouvelle étude des industries lithiques découvertes sur le site paléolithique de Sjara-osso-gol, Mongolie intérieure, Chine","authors":"Kazuharu Takehana , Shinji Kato , Hitoshi Magara , Atsushi Uemine","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103232","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103232","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In Northern China, an old excavated site has been re-studied in Paris (Institut de Paléontologie Humaine), formerly excavated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. It consists of blanks and heavy flakes obtained from multi-facetted cores. The implements contain scrapers, denticulates, robust points (“Tayac”). It has been compared with Caune de l’Arago site, Tautavel in Southern France.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"128 1","pages":"Article 103232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140463620","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}