Publication Date:
1999-10-03
Description:
The cave site of Moula-Guercy, 80 meters above the modern Rhone River, was occupied by Neanderthals approximately 100,000 years ago. Excavations since 1991 have yielded rich paleontological, paleobotanical, and archaeological assemblages, including parts of six Neanderthals. The Neanderthals are contemporary with stone tools and faunal remains in the same tightly controlled stratigraphic and spatial contexts. The inference of Neanderthal cannibalism at Moula-Guercy is based on comparative analysis of hominid and ungulate bone spatial distributions, modifications by stone tools, and skeletal part representations.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Defleur, A -- White, T -- Valensi, P -- Slimak, L -- Cregut-Bonnoure, E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 1;286(5437):128-31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉UMR 6569 du CNRS, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Faculte de Medecine, Secteur Nord, Boulevard Pierre Dramart, 13916 Marseille Cedex 20, France. defleur@voltaire.timone.univ-mrs.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10506562" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Archaeology
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Bone and Bones/anatomy & histology
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Cannibalism/*history
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Deer
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*Fossils
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France
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History, Ancient
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*Hominidae
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Humans
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
