No Reliable Evidence for a Neanderthal-Chatelperronian Association at La Roche-a-Pierrot, Saint-Cesaire.

ABSTRACT: The demise of Neanderthals and their interaction with dispersing anatomically modern human populations remain some of the most contentious issues in palaeoanthropology. The Châtelperronian, now generally recognized as the first genuine Upper Palaeolithic industry in Western Europe and commonly attributed to the Neanderthals, plays a pivotal role in these debates. The Neanderthal authorship of this techno-complex is based on reported associations of Neanderthal skeletal material with Châtelperronian assemblages at only two sites, La Roche-à-Pierrot (Saint-Césaire) and the Grotte du Renne (Arcy-sur-Cure). The reliability of such an association has, however, been the subject of heated controversy. Here we present a detailed taphonomic, spatial and typo-technological reassessment of the level

SUBMITTER: Gravina B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181958 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature