Evidence of Neanderthals in the Balkans: The infant radius from Kozarnika Cave (Bulgaria)

Autor: Stanimira Taneva, Anne-Marie Tillier, Jean-Claude Leblanc, Aleta Guadelli, Vasil Atanasov Popov, Catherine Ferrier, Philippe Fernandez, Nikolay Sirakov, Maryam Heidari, V. Miteva, Guillaume Guérin, Ivaïlo Krumov, Jean-Luc Guadelli, Irena Dimitrova, Svoboda Sirakova
Přispěvatelé: De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Archaeological Institute and Museum (NAIM), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique (LAMPEA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), Department of Archaeology, New Bulgarian University, IRAMAT-Centre de recherche en physique appliquée à l’archéologie (IRAMAT-CRP2A), Institut de Recherches sur les Archéomatériaux (IRAMAT), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne-Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne-Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (IBER), Mission 'Paléolithique de Bulgarie' (Advisory Committee of the Archaeological Researches abroad of French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, PACEA-UMR5199 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, The first human settlements in the Balkans in their physical and biological contexts (National Institute of Archaeology with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences / PACEA UMR5199 CNRS / Mission Paléolithique de Bulgarie [MEAE]), Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Human Evolution
Journal of Human Evolution, Elsevier, 2017, 111, pp.54-62. ⟨10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.06.002⟩
Journal of Human Evolution, 2017, 111, pp.54-62. ⟨10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.06.002⟩
ISSN: 0047-2484
1095-8606
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.06.002⟩
Popis: International audience; Excavations conducted by a Bulgarian-French team at Kozarnika Cave (Balkans, Bulgaria) during several seasons yielded a long Paleolithic archaeological sequence and led to the discovery of important faunal, lithic, and human samples. This paper aims to describe the unpublished radius shaft of an infant who died approximately before the sixth month postnatal that was recovered from layer 10b, which contained East Balkan Levallois Mousterian with bifacial leaf points. The layer was dated between 130 and 200 ka (large mammals biochronology) and between 128 ± 13 ka and 183 ± 14 ka (OSL), i.e. OIS6. Here we show that, given the scarcity of Middle Pleistocene infant remains in general, and Middle Paleolithic human remains from this part of Eastern Europe in particular, the study of the Kozarnika specimen is of special interest. We discuss its place in the Middle Pleistocene European hominine record and substantiate the hypothesis of early Neanderthal presence in the eastern Balkans.
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