Middle Paleolithic bone retouchers from Northern France: preliminary results of a multi-proxy analysis

• Main Authors: Vignes, Marie-Pauline, Bray, Fabrice, Rots, Veerle, Julien, Marie-Anne, Auguste, Patrick
• Other Authors: Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Miniaturisation pour la Synthèse, l’Analyse et la Protéomique - UAR 3290 (MSAP), Institut de Chimie - CNRS Chimie (INC-CNRS)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS, TraceoLab, Université de Liège, Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), GeoArchEon SARL, UISPP
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: Neandertal; bone tools; Zooarchaeology; paleoproteomics; Experimentation; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; [SDV.BBM.GTP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry; Molecular Biology/Genomics [q-bio.GN]; Flint; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04462026

International audience Over the last decades, important discoveries have deeply reshaped our understanding of Neanderthal behaviors, and notably an increasing number of proofs of non-dietary uses of different kind of animals. The use of bones for a variety of daily activities is now frequently ident...