Did Neanderthal produce a bone industry? The recent discovery of a large bone tool
assemblage at the Neanderthal site of Chagyrskaya (Altai, Siberia, Russia) and the …

For a long time, the rich bone industries of the Upper Palaeolithic were opposed to the
opportunistic Neandertal bone tools among which the bone retoucher was the most common …

Debates on the cognitive and technological capacities of hominins often focus on the
production of artifacts from organic materials (Klein 1989; Mellars and Stringer 1989; …

At Clos de Poujol, dated from 8,300 to 7,200 cal. BC, thousands of small burnt fragments of
Cervid antler were identified in the faunal material recovered from the sorting of the sieving …

The adoption of bone tool technology in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Europe by
Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans has been the focus of considerable debate …

The archaeological sequence from the Orgnac 3 site presents the opportunity to observe
behavioral aspects characterizing the beginnings of the main Neanderthal technological …

At the end of the Lower Palaeolithic and into the Middle Palaeolithic, Neanderthals inhabited
northern France, and many archaeological sites preserve accumulations of various lithic …

The emergence and subsequent development of bone tool technologies represents an
important step in the evolution of human behavior. Here we present a technological …

In this paper, we explore the social motivations underlying the settlement pattern of the
foraging communities 15,000 years ago in the southwest of France. We report on a …

Here I present two experimental programs, which are in different stages of development. The
first item is an already finished experimental program about the collection and use of …