The Potential of Micromammals for the Stratigraphy and the Timing of Human Occupations at La Roche-à-Pierrot (Saint-Césaire, France)
| Autor: | Josserand Marot, Brad Gravina, Eugène Morin, Loïc Lebreton, Alexandre Michel, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Damien Flas, Véronique Laroulandie, Cédric Beauval, François Bachellerie, H. Rougier, Dominique Todisco, Elise Tartar |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Trent University, De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Archéologie d'Alsace, Archéosphère, université de Liège - service de Préhistoire, Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service Départemental de l’Archéologie, Conseil Départemental de Charente-Maritime, Department of Anthropology, California State University Northridge, Identités et Différenciation de l'Environnement des Espaces et des Sociétés (IDEES), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université Le Havre Normandie (ULH), Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Homme et Société (IRIHS), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Identité et Différenciation de l’Espace, de l’Environnement et des Sociétés (IDEES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Homme et Société (IRIHS), Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
010506 paleontology Taphonomy Context (archaeology) [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory Stratigraphy Small mammal 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Paleontology Sequence (geology) Late Pleistocene Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Sequence stratigraphy Stratigraphy (archaeology) Human evolution 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes density analysis micromammals taphonomy 15. Life on land QE640-699 Highly sensitive Geography Habitat GN281-289 |
| Zdroj: | Quaternary Quaternary, MDPI, 2021, 4 (4), pp.33. ⟨10.3390/quat4040033⟩ Quaternary; Volume 4; Issue 4; Pages: 33 Quaternary, Vol 4, Iss 33, p 33 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2571-550X |
| Popis: | International audience; As micromammals are highly sensitive to changes in their habitat, variations in species representation are often used to reconstruct local environmental conditions. However, taphonomic aspects of micromammals are often overlooked, despite the fact that they can provide important information for our understanding of archaeological sites. La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire, is a major archaeological site for our understanding of the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in Western Europe. Clearly documenting site formation processes, the post-depositional reworking of deposits and the sequence of human occupations is fundamental for providing a secure archaeostratigraphic context of the site. The exceptionally large accumulation of micromammals from recently excavated stratigraphic units at the site makes it possible to track variations in the density of micromammals across the stratigraphic sequence. The taphonomic analysis of micromammals demonstrates these variations are not related to a change in the main accumulation agent or post-depositional phenomena. A negative correlation between small mammal remains and archaeological material suggests that peaks in micromammal densities can potentially be correlated with periods when the site was abandoned or when human occupation was less intense, and therefore provide new data for interpreting the Saint-Césaire stratigraphic sequence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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