The Châtelperronian Neanderthals of Cova Foradada (Calafell, Spain) used imperial eagle phalanges for symbolic purposes.

Autor:	Rodríguez-Hidalgo A; IDEA (Instituto de Evolución en África), Madrid, Spain., Morales JI; SERP, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Cebrià A; SERP, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Courtenay LA; Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Tarragona, Spain.; Department of Cartographic and Land Engineering, Higher Polytechnic School of Avila, University of Salamanca, Ávila, Spain., Fernández-Marchena JL; SERP, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., García-Argudo G; SERP, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Marín J; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, UMR-7194, Paris, France., Saladié P; Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Tarragona, Spain.; Unit Associated to CSIC, Departamento de Paleobiología, Museo Nacional d Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain., Soto M; Department of Anthropology and Archeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada., Tejero JM; SERP, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique de France (CNRS), UMR-7041, ArScAn équipe Ethnologie préhistorique, Nanterre, France., Fullola JM; SERP, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Science advances [Sci Adv] 2019 Nov 01; Vol. 5 (11), pp. eaax1984. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Nov 01 (Print Publication: 2019).
DOI:	10.1126/sciadv.aax1984
Abstrakt:	Evidence for the symbolic behavior of Neanderthals in the use of personal ornaments is relatively scarce. Among the few ornaments documented, eagle talons, which were presumably used as pendants, are the most frequently recorded. This phenomenon appears concentrated in a specific area of southern Europe during a span of 80 thousand years. Here, we present the analysis of one eagle pedal phalange recovered from the Châtelperronian layer of Foradada Cave (Spain). Our research broadens the known geographical and temporal range of this symbolic behavior, providing the first documentation of its use among the Iberian populations, as well as of its oldest use in the peninsula. The recurrent appearance of large raptor talons throughout the Middle Paleolithic time frame, including their presence among the last Neanderthal populations, raises the question of the survival of some cultural elements of the Middle Paleolithic into the transitional Middle to Upper Paleolithic assemblages and beyond. (Copyright © 2019 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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