Modalités d'exploitation des rennes dans le Protomagdalénien du Blot (Haute-Loire, France)

• Main Authors: Chauvière, François-Xavier, Fontana, Laure
• Other Authors: Institut de préhistoire et des sciences de l?antiquité classique, Université de Neuchâtel (UNINE), Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique (LAMPEA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), Archéologies environnementales, Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2005
• Subjects: Cerzat; Europe du Sud; exploitation; Haute-Loire; Le Blot; Protomagdalénien; Paléolithique supérieur; Préhistoire; archéozoologie; renne; grand mammifère; industrie sur matière dure animale; technologie de l'os; France; Auvergne; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Renne; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00409198; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00409198/document; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00409198/file/2005-CHAUVIERE%20FONTANA-Le%20Blot-Mem%20SPF.pdf

During the successive excavations in the le Blot rock-shelter (HauteLoire, France) 29 worked or used bones were found in the Protomagdalenian levels. The accumulation modalities of 18 worked reindeer bones in the site are documented by using a technical and functional analysis. This analysis takes places within the archaeozoological study which in this paper deals principally with Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) exploitation. The reindeer were hunted during the end of spring and the beginning of summer. Most of them were females and juveniles, and therefore “without head”. Reindeer constituted the most important game. They were brought entire on the site. The important thing was to get meat. Only a few bones were apparently used for industry. Points (punch) have been worked in situ with reindeer bones which were introduced into the site. It was probably the same thing for the symbolic objects (notched bones). On the other hand, the three reindeer antler objects. They probably came from an adult male reindeer population which is not represented on the site. The rarity of reindeer ulna points can be explained by the fact that this anatomic part was used to manufacture objects (points?). Those are not directly documented and therefore were maybe carried out of the site. The absence of bone projectile points is another specificity of this site. For this reason, le Blot is different from other archaeological sites in this region and differs also from two of the three other known Protomagdalenian French sites. Las diferentes campañas de excavación llevadas a cabo sobre el yacimiento de Blot (Haute-Loire, Francia) han permitido sacar a luz, en los niveles arqueológicos atribuidos al Protomagdaleniense, 29 elementos trabajados o utilizados sobre materias duras animales. Integrado en el seno de un estudio arqueozoológico centrado, en el cuadro de este artículo, sobre la explotación del Reno (Rangifer tarandus) durante el Protomagdaleniense, el análisis técnico y funcional de 18 objetos trabajados precisa sus modalidades de ...