Title The cave of Fontéchevade : recent excavations and their paleoanthropological implications / [edited by] Philip G. Chase [and others]

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Authors and Contributors; PART I INTRODUCTION, BACKGROUND, AND METHODOLOGY; 1 Introduction and Background; 2 Introduction to the 1994-1998 Excavations; PART II SPECIALIZED ANALYSES; 3 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy at Font echevade; 4 Paleoclimate Delineation Using Magnetic Susceptibility Data; 5 Electrical Resistivity Survey of Fontéchevade; 6 The Fossil Human Remains; 7 Radiometric Dates; 8 Faunal Taphonomy; 9 The Fauna from Henri-Martin's Excavation of Bed E 10 The Upper Paleolithic of Fontéchevade11 Description of the Lithic Industries; PART III ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS; 12 Processes of Site Formation and Their Implications; 13 Summary and Conclusions; References; Index Summary "This book provides a summary of the discoveries made during the course of excavations at the Paleolithic cave site of Fontechevade, France, between 1994 and 1998. The excavation team used modern field and analytic methods to address major problems raised by earlier excavations at the site from 1937 to 1954. These earlier excavations produced two sets of data that have been problematic in light of data from other European Paleolithic sites: first, the Lower Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Tayacian, that differs in fundamental ways from other contemporary industries and, second, the human skull fragment that has been interpreted as modern in nature but that apparently dates from the last interglacial, long before there is any evidence for modern humans from any other site in Europe. By applying modern stratigraphic, lithic, faunal, geological, geophysical, and radiometric analyses, the interdisciplinary team demonstrates that the Tayacian "industry" is a product of site-formation processes and that the actual age of the Fontechevade I fossil is compatible with other evidence for the arrival of modern humans in Europe."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index Notes Print version record Subject Antiquities, Prehistoric -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave Stone age -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave Human remains (Archaeology) -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave Tools, Prehistoric -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave Excavations (Archaeology) -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. Antiquities Antiquities, Prehistoric Excavations (Archaeology) Human remains (Archaeology) Stone age Tools, Prehistoric SUBJECT Fontéchevade Cave (France) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008001135 France -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051170 Subject France France -- Fontéchevade Cave Form Electronic book Author Chase, Philip G. LC no. 2008005649 ISBN 9780521898447 0521898447 0511464789 9780511464782 9780511465529 0511465521 9780511575518 0511575513 1281982946 9781281982940 9780511464041 0511464045

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