Un ours dans les étoiles, recherche phylogénétique sur un mythe préhistorique.

• Main Author: D'Huy, Julien
• Other Authors: Centre de Linguistique Anthropologique et Sociolinguistique - Institut Marcel Mauss (LIAS - IMM), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: Archeoastronomy; Folktale; Mythology; Evolution; Genetics; Cultural evolution; Horizontal transmission; Phylogenetics; Génétique; Mythologie; folklore; Archéoastronomie; Phylogénétique; Evolution culturelle; Transmission horizontale; anthro-se; lang; Arctic; The Handle; elk
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00825883/file/2012.4._Un_ours_dans_les_A_toiles_recherche_phylogA_nA_tique_sur_un_mythe_prA_historique._-_PrA_histoire_du_sud-ouest_20_1_91-106.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00825883

This paper gives new evidence that Upper Palaeolithic societies of western Europe would have interpreted stars as patterns or constellations. It also shows how we can scientifically reconstruct the prehistoric mythology. In Eurasia and North America, the stars in the handle of the Big Dipper are oft...