Zooarchaeological study of an Upper Palaeolithic site with mammoth remains, Pushkari Ieexcavation VII (Chernigov oblast, Ukraine)
peer reviewed The Pushkari archaeological complex is one of the few sites which shows human occupations related to the first part of the Upper Pleniglacial. Pushkari I furnished rich archaeological material. Study of the lithic industry identified a facies of Gravettian with epigravettian features,...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/188997 2024-10-13T14:01:12+00:00 Zooarchaeological study of an Upper Palaeolithic site with mammoth remains, Pushkari Ieexcavation VII (Chernigov oblast, Ukraine) Demay, Laëtitia Péan, Stéphane Belyaeva, Valentina I. Vasil'ev, Pavel M. Patou-Mathis, Marylène 2016 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/188997 https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/188997/1/1-s2.0-S1040618215007740-main.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.014 en eng Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science urn:issn:1040-6182 urn:issn:1873-4553 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/188997 info:hdl:2268/188997 doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.014 open access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Quaternary International (2016) Pushkari Upper Pleniglacial Mammoth Zooarchaeology Arts & humanities Archaeology Arts & sciences humaines Archéologie journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article peer reviewed 2016 ftorbi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.014 2024-09-27T07:01:56Z peer reviewed The Pushkari archaeological complex is one of the few sites which shows human occupations related to the first part of the Upper Pleniglacial. Pushkari I furnished rich archaeological material. Study of the lithic industry identified a facies of Gravettian with epigravettian features, called Pushkarian. In order to figure out acquisition and treatment modalities of large mammals, and to test the hypothesis of the use of woolly mammoth as a source of food and building material, we conducted a zooarchaeological study of the faunal remains from excavation VII of Pushkari I. The faunal spectrum is made of Mammuthus primigenius, the predominant species, Equus sp., R. tarandus, Canis lupus and Vulpes vulpes/Alopex lagopus. Taphonomic study suggests that some bone remains of mammoth lay in open-air for a long time before they were buried while bones of carnivores and other bones of mammoth were quickly buried. All the assemblage was affected by acid sandy deposits. Phenomena of freeze-thaw action were observed, but the archaeological layer was little disturbed. Mammoths came regularly on the promontory. The skeletal preservation shows that they died there. The mortality profile with a majority of adults combined with a palethnographic interpretation suggests that they were slaughtered and butchered by human groups. Tusks were stored. The spatial distribution indicates a campsite, which corresponds to recurrent short-termed occupations on the promontory by human groups. This site is a strategic place to collect flint to make weapons, to find dry mammoth bones, and to hunt and butcher mammoths. This study provides new data to understand the particular status of the woolly mammoth for the Upper Pleniglacial human groups in the Russo-Ukrainian plain. Animal resources and subsistence of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in Ukraine Article in Journal/Newspaper Alopex lagopus Canis lupus University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) Flint ENVELOPE(-65.417,-65.417,-67.333,-67.333) Quaternary International 406 183 201 |
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Pushkari Upper Pleniglacial Mammoth Zooarchaeology Arts & humanities Archaeology Arts & sciences humaines Archéologie Demay, Laëtitia Péan, Stéphane Belyaeva, Valentina I. Vasil'ev, Pavel M. Patou-Mathis, Marylène Zooarchaeological study of an Upper Palaeolithic site with mammoth remains, Pushkari Ieexcavation VII (Chernigov oblast, Ukraine) |
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peer reviewed The Pushkari archaeological complex is one of the few sites which shows human occupations related to the first part of the Upper Pleniglacial. Pushkari I furnished rich archaeological material. Study of the lithic industry identified a facies of Gravettian with epigravettian features, called Pushkarian. In order to figure out acquisition and treatment modalities of large mammals, and to test the hypothesis of the use of woolly mammoth as a source of food and building material, we conducted a zooarchaeological study of the faunal remains from excavation VII of Pushkari I. The faunal spectrum is made of Mammuthus primigenius, the predominant species, Equus sp., R. tarandus, Canis lupus and Vulpes vulpes/Alopex lagopus. Taphonomic study suggests that some bone remains of mammoth lay in open-air for a long time before they were buried while bones of carnivores and other bones of mammoth were quickly buried. All the assemblage was affected by acid sandy deposits. Phenomena of freeze-thaw action were observed, but the archaeological layer was little disturbed. Mammoths came regularly on the promontory. The skeletal preservation shows that they died there. The mortality profile with a majority of adults combined with a palethnographic interpretation suggests that they were slaughtered and butchered by human groups. Tusks were stored. The spatial distribution indicates a campsite, which corresponds to recurrent short-termed occupations on the promontory by human groups. This site is a strategic place to collect flint to make weapons, to find dry mammoth bones, and to hunt and butcher mammoths. This study provides new data to understand the particular status of the woolly mammoth for the Upper Pleniglacial human groups in the Russo-Ukrainian plain. Animal resources and subsistence of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in Ukraine |
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Demay, Laëtitia Péan, Stéphane Belyaeva, Valentina I. Vasil'ev, Pavel M. Patou-Mathis, Marylène |
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Demay, Laëtitia Péan, Stéphane Belyaeva, Valentina I. Vasil'ev, Pavel M. Patou-Mathis, Marylène |
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Zooarchaeological study of an Upper Palaeolithic site with mammoth remains, Pushkari Ieexcavation VII (Chernigov oblast, Ukraine) |
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Zooarchaeological study of an Upper Palaeolithic site with mammoth remains, Pushkari Ieexcavation VII (Chernigov oblast, Ukraine) |
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Zooarchaeological study of an Upper Palaeolithic site with mammoth remains, Pushkari Ieexcavation VII (Chernigov oblast, Ukraine) |
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Zooarchaeological study of an Upper Palaeolithic site with mammoth remains, Pushkari Ieexcavation VII (Chernigov oblast, Ukraine) |
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Zooarchaeological study of an Upper Palaeolithic site with mammoth remains, Pushkari Ieexcavation VII (Chernigov oblast, Ukraine) |
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zooarchaeological study of an upper palaeolithic site with mammoth remains, pushkari ieexcavation vii (chernigov oblast, ukraine) |
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