CHARACTERIZATION AND EXPLOITATION OF THE ARCTIC HARE (LEPUS TIMIDUS) DURING THE MAGDALENIAN: SURPRISING DATA FROM GAZEL CAVE (AUDE, FRANCE) ?

• Main Author: Fontana, Laure
• Other Authors: Archéologies environnementales, Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-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 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Economies, sociétés et environnements préhistoriques (ESEP), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2003
• Subjects: [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Arctic; Liège; Arctic hare; Lepus timidus
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02540185; https://hal.science/hal-02540185/document; https://hal.science/hal-02540185/file/2003-FONTANA-Lievre-a-Gazel-BAR.pdf

Actes du XIVè congrès UISPP, Université de Liège (2001) International audience The Magdalenian layers of Gazel Cave yielded more than 8,000 bones and teeth ofarctic Hare (Lepus timidus) representing at least 84 animais which were brought to the site by humans. Rare cutmarks on the bones and hypothes...