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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ftinstitutnrap:oai:HAL:tel-00725310v1 2024-06-23T07:53:25+00:00 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) École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II Michel Barbaza 2011-11-28 https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310 https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310/document https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310/file/Kuntz_D._2011_phD.pdf fr fre HAL CCSD tel-00725310 https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310 https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310/document https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310/file/Kuntz_D._2011_phD.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310 Archéologie et Préhistoire. Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2011. Français. ⟨NNT : ⟩ 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 ftinstitutnrap 2024-06-10T23:52:29Z 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 INRAP: HAL (Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives) Greenland Norway Renne ENVELOPE(9.698,9.698,63.505,63.505) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 ... |
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Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II Michel Barbaza |
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Kuntz, Delphine |
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Kuntz, Delphine |
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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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HAL CCSD |
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2011 |
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https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310 https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310/document https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310/file/Kuntz_D._2011_phD.pdf |
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ENVELOPE(9.698,9.698,63.505,63.505) |
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Greenland Norway Renne |
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Greenland Norway Renne |
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Greenland Rangifer tarandus renne |
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Greenland Rangifer tarandus renne |
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https://theses.hal.science/tel-00725310 Archéologie et Préhistoire. Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2011. Français. ⟨NNT : ⟩ |
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