DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.018
论文题名: Taphonomic analysis of the hominin remains from Swabian Jura and their implications for the mortuary practices during the Upper Paleolithic
作者: Sala N. ; Conard N.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
出版年: 2016
卷: 150 起始页码: 278
结束页码: 300
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Burial
; Cannibalism
; Culture of death
; Taphonomy
Scopus关键词: Caves
; Burial
; Cannibalism
; Cognitive ability
; Homo sapiens
; Human being
; Human teeths
; Spoken languages
; Taphonomy
; Behavioral research
; archaeological evidence
; artifact
; burial (geology)
; cannibalism
; cause of death
; historical record
; hominid
; language
; Paleolithic
; skeletal remains
; taphonomy
; Baden-Wurttemberg
; Germany
; Hohle Fels Cave
; Swabian Alb
; Homo sapiens
英文摘要: The symbolic behavior of human beings usually is manifested in different ways such as figurative art, musical traditions, spoken language or complex funerary behavior. The Paleolithic sites of the Swabian Jura contain a rich archaeological record including the oldest evidence of musical instruments and figurative art which indicates complex cognitive abilities of the Paleolithic Homo sapiens that colonized Europe. Nevertheless, there is no evidence for burials in the Swabian caves during the Paleolithic. This raises questions regarding the kind of mortuary practices that existed in this region during the Paleolithic. In this paper, we address these questions from a taphonomic perspective by analyzing the hominin remains recovered in caves of the Swabian Jura. Whatever the funerary behavior was during the Early and Middle Upper Paleolithic, we have no evidence to document these practices. The Magdalenian hominin remains from Brillenhöhle, however, display anthropic modifications that have been hotly debated in the past. Our taphonomic analysis indicates that the assemblage displays traces of butchery similar to those recorded in the faunal remains. In addition to the cut marks, we have documented intentional breakage and human tooth marks, suggesting that the consumption of human corpses took place during the Magdalenian at Brillenhöhle. Similar anthropic modifications have also been documented in Magdalenian horizon at Hohle Fels. This suggests that the cannibalism practices during the Magdalenian were more common than previously expected during the Magdalenian in the Swabian Jura. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd 资助项目: Sala, N.
; Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters Abteilung für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Schloss HohentübingenGermany
; 电子邮件: nohemisala@rocketmail.com
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59453
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作者单位: Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters Abteilung für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Departamento Ciencias de la Vida, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain; Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humano, Madrid, Spain
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Sala N.,Conard N.. Taphonomic analysis of the hominin remains from Swabian Jura and their implications for the mortuary practices during the Upper Paleolithic[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,150