THE HUMAN REMAINS OF THE SITE OF PAYRE (S-E FRANCE, MIS 7–5). REMARKS ON STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION AND INTEREST

• Published in: Anthropologie (Brno) Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 19 - 30
• Main Authors: MONCEL, MARIE-HÉLÈNE, CONDEMI, SILVANA
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brno Moravian Museum 01.01.2007; Moravské muzeum; Moravian Museum, Anthropos Institute
• Subjects: Bones; Carnivores; Caves; Europe; France; Human remains; Humans; Hyenas; Lower and middle palaeolithic; Marine isotope stages; Neanderthals; ORIGINAL PAPERS • TRAVAUX ORIGINAUX • ORIGINALARBEITEN; Palaeolithic and mesolithic; Prehistory and protohistory; Sediments; Teeth; Neanderthal; Middle Palaeolithic; Ardeche; France; Europe; Cave deposits; Ardèche; Human body; Post-mortem processes; Bone dispersion; Neanderthal remains; Payre; Middle Paleolithic; Skeleton; Bone; France; Absence of grave; Human remain

Most of Neanderthal sites in Europe yielded only very small quantities of human remains. These often consist of resistant material, i.e. teeth and highly fragmented parts of the cranium and post-cranial skeleton. In southeastern France, the site of Payre, dated from MIS 7 and 5, illustrates this sca...