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Des ossements d’éléphant dans une grotte; de bison dans un dépôt lacustre; des restes humains et des outils lithiques associés à des fossiles de lions ou d’hyènes… Éléphant cavernicole, bison aquatique, chasseurs ou chassés? Ces exemples préhistoriques nous interpellent quant à leurs origines et aux associations qu’ils suscitent. Comment ces accumulations du passé touchant un vaste éventail d’objets (faune, flore, productions humaines…) se sont-elles constituées et conservées au cours du temps, durant des centaines, des milliers, ou des millions d’années? C’est dans cette perspective que se placent les études en taphonomie, largement pluri- et inter-discipli...
Un poisson nage, un oiseau vole, un ongulé galope, un humain marche…grâce à un ensemble de muscles et de fonctions précises et complémentaires qui prennent appui sur une structure rigide, le squelette, dont l’organisation est partagée par tous ces êtres vivants, vertébrés. On peut rajouter aux os de ce squelette des éléments essentiels pour l’alimentation ou la défense : les dents. Os et dents résistent au passage du temps et à la décomposition du corps qui suit la mort des organismes. Ils peuvent se conserver très longtemps lorsque les conditions sont favorables. Ils deviennent alors des fossiles, témoins précieux de la vie du passé. Les restes squelettiques constit...
Ce livre propose une étude panoramique des grandes questions relatives aux dénominations de l'humain et des enjeux qui leur sont associés. Au prisme des contextes sociopolitiques actuels, les thématiques abordent la diversité de la dénomination dans le domaine des migrations, des minorités, du sectarisme, du genre, de l'égalité etc. Le volume est organisé en trois parties, considérant les enjeux de la dénomination de l'humain comme étant d'abord un acte de démarcation par rappport à ce qui apparait comme antagoniste (par exemple, le règne animal) ou semblable (d'autres humaines, l'Autre), puis un acte de catégorisation des individus en société, et enfin un acte de représentation de l'humain dans ses différents rôles, titres et fonctions.
ÿ This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the ?Cradle of Humankind?, the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to 1943, Robert Broom described important hominin fossil discoveries from Kromdraai as belonging to a single individual and designated the type specimen as one of our distant relatives, called Paranthropus robustus
Few open-air sites of this age have the same extent, complexity and diversity of deposits, as was found at the site of Solvieux in South-west France. The complexities of the site and the intensity of the archaeological investigation called for new and novel methodologies to be devised which are discussed in detail. The history of the project, methodologies, results and analysis of finds are complemented by a large number of drawings, outlines of typologies and essays on Upper Palaeolithic traditions and the contribution of the Solvieux results in this regard.
In view of the massive change in the area of distribution of many world biota across classical biogeographical realms, and of the drastic restructuring of the biotic components of numerous ecosystems, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) decided at its general Assembly in Ottawa, Canada, in 1982 to launch a project on the 'Ecology of Biological Invasions'. Several regional meetings were subsequently organized within the framework of SCOPE, in order to single out the peculiarities of the invasions that took place in each region, the behaviour of their invasive species and the invasibility of their ecosystems. Most noteworthy among such workshops were one in Australi...
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Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport. Their social and economic importance has seen some species transported across continents, transforming landscape as they went with the establishment of menageries and park. The fortunes of other species have been less auspicious, some becoming extirpated, or being in threat of extinction, due to pressures of over-hunting and/or human-instigated environmental change. In spite of their diverse, deep-rooted and long standing relations with human societies, no multi-disciplinary volume of research on cervids has until now been produced. This volume d...
Callaïs refers to the green stones from which the remarkable ornaments discovered in several Neolithic sites in Western Europe are made. This volume brings together the contributions of the best European specialists in callaïs, variscite and turquoise, who spoke at a symposium on this ancient gemstone held in April 2015 in Carnac.