Osteometry and migration(s) of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in South-West France during the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (21 500- 13 000 cal. BP)

This doctoral research aims at characterizing morphological fluctuations resulting from climate change in palaeolithic reindeers from Southwest France. Indeed, the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (between 21 500 - 13 000 cal. BP) constituted periods of particularly strong palaeoclimatic and p...

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Main Author: Kuntz, Delphine
Other Authors: Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, Michel Barbaza
Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
Language:French
Published: HAL CCSD 2011
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spelling ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:tel-00725310v1 2023-05-15T16:30:36+02:00 Osteometry and migration(s) of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in South-West France during the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (21 500- 13 000 cal. BP) Ostéométrie et migration(s) du renne (Rangifer tarandus) dans le Sud-Ouest de la France au cours du dernier Pléniglaciaire et du Tardiglaciaire (21 500 - 13 000 cal. BP) Kuntz, Delphine Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II Michel Barbaza 2011-11-28 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725310 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725310/document https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725310/file/Kuntz_D._2011_phD.pdf fr fre HAL CCSD tel-00725310 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725310 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725310/document https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725310/file/Kuntz_D._2011_phD.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725310 Archéologie et Préhistoire. Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2011. Français osteometry methodology Last Pleniglacial Last Glacial South-West France migratory behaviour actualism Rangifer tarandus ostéométrie méthodologie dernier Pléniglaciaire Tardiglaciaire Sud-Ouest de la France écotype comportement migratoire actualisme [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis Theses 2011 ftccsdartic 2021-06-26T23:43:26Z This doctoral research aims at characterizing morphological fluctuations resulting from climate change in palaeolithic reindeers from Southwest France. Indeed, the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (between 21 500 - 13 000 cal. BP) constituted periods of particularly strong palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental constraints, which ended, either directly or indirectly, in repercussions on the body size of reindeer populations. The series analyzed within the framework of this work result from both current and fossil registers. Several samples of current populations (Norway, Finland, and Greenland) were thus analyzed, in order to experiment the methodology and envisage morphological comparisons with the past populations. The palaeolithic corpus is composed of 29 natural and anthropological assemblages of Southwest France, dated mainly from the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial. Since the Variability Size Index method recently applied to palaeolithic reindeer raises issues, particularly relating to the determination of an assemblage's sex-ratio, to the characterization or not of observed morphological differences -either isometric and allometric-, we decided to use a new methodology combining several statistical tools applied to a new size index (VSI*: modified Variability Size Index). Osteometric and statistical analyses that we performed tend to identify temporal morphological fluctuations, demonstrating adaptations of the specie. From a synchronic standpoint, the results allow to reject the hypothesis previously asserted regarding differences between Last Glacial reindeers from Landes on the one hand and the Dordogne/Gironde sector, on the other hand. Seasonal data however tend to indicate an absence of large-scale migrations of reindeers according to such a North/South axis. Nonetheless, the existence of different populations between reindeers of Landes and those of the Aude basin is proposed. Hence, Southwest France, at the end of the upper Palaeolithic, would have been occupied continuously by ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Greenland Rangifer tarandus renne Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Greenland Norway Renne ENVELOPE(9.698,9.698,63.505,63.505)
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topic osteometry
methodology
Last Pleniglacial
Last Glacial
South-West France
migratory behaviour
actualism
Rangifer tarandus
ostéométrie
méthodologie
dernier Pléniglaciaire
Tardiglaciaire
Sud-Ouest de la France
écotype
comportement migratoire
actualisme
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory
spellingShingle osteometry
methodology
Last Pleniglacial
Last Glacial
South-West France
migratory behaviour
actualism
Rangifer tarandus
ostéométrie
méthodologie
dernier Pléniglaciaire
Tardiglaciaire
Sud-Ouest de la France
écotype
comportement migratoire
actualisme
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory
Kuntz, Delphine
Osteometry and migration(s) of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in South-West France during the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (21 500- 13 000 cal. BP)
topic_facet osteometry
methodology
Last Pleniglacial
Last Glacial
South-West France
migratory behaviour
actualism
Rangifer tarandus
ostéométrie
méthodologie
dernier Pléniglaciaire
Tardiglaciaire
Sud-Ouest de la France
écotype
comportement migratoire
actualisme
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory
description This doctoral research aims at characterizing morphological fluctuations resulting from climate change in palaeolithic reindeers from Southwest France. Indeed, the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (between 21 500 - 13 000 cal. BP) constituted periods of particularly strong palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental constraints, which ended, either directly or indirectly, in repercussions on the body size of reindeer populations. The series analyzed within the framework of this work result from both current and fossil registers. Several samples of current populations (Norway, Finland, and Greenland) were thus analyzed, in order to experiment the methodology and envisage morphological comparisons with the past populations. The palaeolithic corpus is composed of 29 natural and anthropological assemblages of Southwest France, dated mainly from the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial. Since the Variability Size Index method recently applied to palaeolithic reindeer raises issues, particularly relating to the determination of an assemblage's sex-ratio, to the characterization or not of observed morphological differences -either isometric and allometric-, we decided to use a new methodology combining several statistical tools applied to a new size index (VSI*: modified Variability Size Index). Osteometric and statistical analyses that we performed tend to identify temporal morphological fluctuations, demonstrating adaptations of the specie. From a synchronic standpoint, the results allow to reject the hypothesis previously asserted regarding differences between Last Glacial reindeers from Landes on the one hand and the Dordogne/Gironde sector, on the other hand. Seasonal data however tend to indicate an absence of large-scale migrations of reindeers according to such a North/South axis. Nonetheless, the existence of different populations between reindeers of Landes and those of the Aude basin is proposed. Hence, Southwest France, at the end of the upper Palaeolithic, would have been occupied continuously by ...
author2 Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES)
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II
Michel Barbaza
format Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
author Kuntz, Delphine
author_facet Kuntz, Delphine
author_sort Kuntz, Delphine
title Osteometry and migration(s) of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in South-West France during the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (21 500- 13 000 cal. BP)
title_short Osteometry and migration(s) of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in South-West France during the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (21 500- 13 000 cal. BP)
title_full Osteometry and migration(s) of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in South-West France during the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (21 500- 13 000 cal. BP)
title_fullStr Osteometry and migration(s) of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in South-West France during the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (21 500- 13 000 cal. BP)
title_full_unstemmed Osteometry and migration(s) of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in South-West France during the Last Pleniglacial and the Last Glacial (21 500- 13 000 cal. BP)
title_sort osteometry and migration(s) of reindeer (rangifer tarandus) in south-west france during the last pleniglacial and the last glacial (21 500- 13 000 cal. bp)
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