Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child

被引：30

作者：

Balzeau, Antoine ^{[1
,2
]}

Turq, Alain ^{[3
]}

Talamo, Sahra ^{[4
,5
]}

Daujeard, Camille ^{[1
]}

Guerin, Guillaume ^{[6
,7
]}

Welker, Frido ^{[4
,8
]}

Crevecoeur, Isabelle ^{[9
]}

Fewlass, Helen ^{[4
]}

Hublin, Jean-Jacques ^{[4
]}

Lahaye, Christelle ^{[6
]}

Maureille, Bruno ^{[9
]}

Meyer, Matthias ^{[10
]}

Schwab, Catherine ^{[11
]}

Gomez-Olivencia, Asier ^{[12
,13
,14
]}

机构：

[1] Museum Natl Hist Nat, PaleoFED Team, UMR 7194, CNRS,Dept Homme & Environm,Musee Homme, 17 Pl Trocadero, F-75016 Paris, France

[2] Royal Museum Cent Africa, Dept African Zool, Tervuren, Belgium

[3] Musee Natl Prehist, 1 Rue Musee, F-24620 Les Eyzies De Tayac, France

[4] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Evolut, Deutsch Pl 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

[5] Univ Bologna, Dept Chem G Ciamician, Via Selmi 2, I-40126 Bologna, Italy

[6] Univ Bordeaux Montaigne, CNRS, UMR 5060, IRAMAT CRP2A,Maison Archeol, F-33607 Pessac, France

[7] Univ Rennes, Geosci Rennes, CNRS, UMR 6118, F-35000 Rennes, France

[8] Univ Copenhagen, Globe Inst, Sect Evolutionary Genom, Copenhagen, Denmark

[9] Univ Bordeaux, PACEA, MCC, CNRS,UMR 5199, F-33600 Pessac, France

[10] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Evolutionary Genet, Leipzig, Germany

[11] Musee Archeol Natl, St Germain En Laye, France

[12] Univ Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, UPV EHU, Dept Geol,Fac Ciencia & Tecnol, Barrio Sarriena S-N, Leioa 48940, Spain

[13] Soc Ciencias Aranzadi, Zorroagagaina 11, Donostia San Sebastian 20014, Spain

[14] Ctr UCM ISCIII Invest Evolut & Comportamiento Hum, Avda Monforte de Lemos 5,Pabellon 14, Madrid 28029, Spain

来源：

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | 2020年 / 10卷 / 01期

基金：

欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

SHANIDAR CAVE; SAINT-CESAIRE; ESR DATES; REMAINS; AMUD; REASSESSMENT; ORIGIN; SINGLE; QAFZEH; GRAINS;

D O I：

10.1038/s41598-020-77611-z

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The origin of funerary practices has important implications for the emergence of so-called modern cognitive capacities and behaviour. We provide new multidisciplinary information on the archaeological context of the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal skeleton (grand abri of La Ferrassie, Dordogne, France), including geochronological data -C-14 and OSL-, ZooMS and ancient DNA data, geological and stratigraphic information from the surrounding context, complete taphonomic study of the skeleton and associated remains, spatial information from the 1968-1973 excavations, and new (2014) fieldwork data. Our results show that a pit was dug in a sterile sediment layer and the corpse of a two-year-old child was laid there. A hominin bone from this context, identified through Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) and associated with Neandertal based on its mitochondrial DNA, yielded a direct C-14 age of 41.7-40.8 ka cal BP (95%), younger than the C-14 dates of the overlying archaeopaleontological layers and the OSL age of the surrounding sediment. This age makes the bone one of the most recent directly dated Neandertals. It is consistent with the age range for the Chatelperronian in the site and in this region and represents the third association of Neandertal taxa to Initial Upper Palaeolithic lithic technocomplex in Western Europe. A detailed multidisciplinary approach, as presented here, is essential to advance understanding of Neandertal behavior, including funerary practices.

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