Combe Grenal
Combe Grenal | |
Palaeolithic | |
Cultures | Acheulean, Mousterian |
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Site notes | |
Excavation dates | between 1953 and 1965 |
Archaeologists | François Bordes |
Combe Grenal, also known as Combe-Grenal, is an
First described by
The site's stratigraphic sequence is 13 meters in depth and has 64 layers (65 layers in some sources). 55 layers are Mousterian while the 9 layers near the bottom are Acheulean.[2] The oldest layers dates back to the end of the Riss glaciation and the youngest to the Würm glaciation.[1]
The oldest Neanderthal remains was found in layer 60. There are also found remains in level 39 and 35. Most remains are found in level 25 which includes 24 cranial and post-cranial specimen estimated to date to about 75,000–65,000 years BP.[3] In 2009, part of an incisor belonging to a child about 3 three years old (estimate 2–4 years) (Combe-Grenal Hominid 31) was discovered in layer 60. Estimated to be 130,000 years, this is the oldest human fossil in the region Aquitaine.[4]
Archeologist
Early wood structure perhaps with thatched roof was indicated in Mousterian layers.[6]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4615-1193-9.
- ^ a b Françoise Le Mort (1989) Traces de décharnement sur les ossements néandertaliens de Combe-Grenal (Dordogne) (in French) Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française Volum 86, No. 3, pp. 79-87 (subscription required)
- ^ Maria Dolores Garralda (2013) Two newly identified Mousterian human rib fragments from Combe-Grenal Domme[permanent dead link] PALEO. Nb. 24. Pp 229–234. Academia.edu. Retrieved 11 May 2015
- ^ Le plus ancien enfant d'Aquitaine : Combe-Grenal 31 (Domme, France) (in French) PALEO.
- ^ Kenneth L. Feder (2004) Linking to the Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology Archived 2015-05-20 at the Wayback Machine[ISBN missing] University Press. Oxford
- ^ Use of plants in the European Palaeolithic: a review of the evidence; Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 2, pp. 53 81, 1983. http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Hort_306/reading/reading%202-2.pdf