For a cultural anthropology of the last Neanderthals
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Why we shall, finally, build a cultural anthropology of the last Neanderthals?
Neanderthalian societies colonized immense territories. They even may well be the first humanity to conquer and exploit most of the environmental diversity of the planet. The success of these implantations and their marked dynamism raise the fundamental problem of processes in relation to their rapid and synchronous eradication throughout Eurasia. Their millennial adaptation to all biotopes and climatic environments of the Eurasian supercontinent let the scientific community with no obvious
An introduction to the end … Overview of the last Neanderthals in Europe
The very long time period of the Middle Paleolithic closed for most of the European territories at the turn of the 42nd and 43rd millennia (Higham et al., 2014). In some geographical areas, perhaps situated at the periphery of the pattern generally documented on the continent, a few rare Mousterian groups could have experienced a perpetuation exceeding their continental extinction by ten millennia. Thus, both extremities of Europe, the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula (e.g. Zilhao et al.,
Rhodanian bricks to build a cultural anthropology of the last Neanderthals
The vast Rhône corridor currently offers major archaeological insights into the organization of Neanderthal societies prior to their extinction in the French Mediterranean area. The archaeological documentation from this region can be seen as particularly original in view of the data commonly referenced concerning the organization of the last Neanderthal societies. It has been demonstrated, a dozen years ago, that the Rhône corridor has a historical structure strictly differentiated from that
Acknowledgements
This paper was initially written for 3 sections of a local catalog linked to « The third Man » exhibit (2017) from the National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies, France. As so these ideas and concepts here exposed were essentially available to a more local scale. It has been updated and specially rearticulated for this issue. We warmly acknowledge the Service Régional de l'Archéologie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and the city of Malataverne (Drôme) for funding researches in Grotte Mandrin.
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