The Reality of Neandertal Symbolic Behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

Francois Caron; Francesco D'Errico; Pierre Del Moral; Frédéric Santos; João Zilhão

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The Reality of Neandertal Symbolic Behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

Francois Caron () ^1, 2, Francesco D'Errico ^3, 4, Pierre Del Moral () ^1, 2, Frédéric Santos ³, João Zilhão ⁵

PLoS ONE 6, 6 (2011)

1: ALEA (INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest)
INRIA – Université de Bordeaux – CNRS : UMR5251 France
2: Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux (IMB)
http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/IMB/
CNRS : UMR5251 – Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux I – Université Victor Segalen - Bordeaux II 351 cours de la Libération 33405 TALENCE CEDEX France
3: de la Préhistoire à l'Actuel, Cultures, Environnement, Anthropologie (PACEA)
http://www.pacea.u-bordeaux1.fr/
CNRS : UMR5199 – Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux I – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication Bâtiment B8 Université Bordeaux 1 Avenue des Facultés 33405 TALENCE CEDEX France
4: Department of Archaeology
University of the Witwatersrand Wits 2050 South Africa
5: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats [Barcelona] (ICREA)
http://www.icrea.cat/web/home.aspx
ICREA – Universitat de Barcelona – Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació (FCRI) Passeig Lluís Companys, 23 08010 Barcelona - Espanya Spain

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@article{caron:inria-00598460,
    hal_id = {inria-00598460},
    url = {http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00598460},
    title = {{The Reality of Neandertal Symbolic Behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France}},
    author = {Caron, Francois and D'Errico, Francesco and Del Moral, Pierre and Santos, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Zilh{\\~a}o, Jo{\\~a}o},
    abstract = {{Background: The question of whether symbolically mediated behavior is exclusive to modern humans or shared with anatomically archaic populations such as the Neandertals is hotly debated. At the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France, the Ch{\^a}telperronian levels contain Neandertal remains and large numbers of personal ornaments, decorated bone tools and colorants, but it has been suggested that this association reflects intrusion of the symbolic artifacts from the overlying Protoaurignacian and/or of the Neandertal remains from the underlying Mousterian. Methodology/Principal Findings: We tested these hypotheses against the horizontal and vertical distributions of the various categories of diagnostic finds and statistically assessed the probability that the Ch{\^a}telperronian levels are of mixed composition. Our results reject that the associations result from large or small scale, localized or generalized post-depositional displacement, and they imply that incomplete sample decontamination is the parsimonious explanation for the stratigraphic anomalies seen in the radiocarbon dating of the sequence. Conclusions/Significance: The symbolic artifacts in the Ch{\^a}telperronian of the Grotte du Renne are indeed Neandertal material culture.}},
    language = {English},
    affiliation = {ALEA - INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest , Institut de Math{\'e}matiques de Bordeaux - IMB , de la Pr{\'e}histoire {\`a} l'Actuel, Cultures, Environnement, Anthropologie - PACEA , Department of Archaeology , Instituci{\'o} Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avan{\c c}ats [Barcelona] - ICREA},
    publisher = {Public Library of Science},
    journal = {PLoS ONE},
    volume = {6},
    number = {6 },
    audience = {international },
    doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0021545 },
    year = {2011},
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