Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Cutmarks and Breakage on the Human Bones from Le Placard (France). An Example of Special Mortuary Practice During the Upper Palaeolithic
AU  - Mort FL
AU  - Gambier D
Y1  - 1991
VL  - 29
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 189
EP  - 194
KW  - Mortuary practice
KW  - Cutmarks
KW  - Breakage
KW  - "Cranial goblets"
KW  - Magdalenian
KW  - France
N2  - 
N2  - Skeletal remains from at least 24 individuals (adults and children), including essentially cranial bones, were uncovered from the site of Le Placard (Charente - France) at the end of the nineteenth century, during the excavations conducted by A. de Maret. Contrary to conclusions drawn by some prehistorians, they all belong to a same cultural level, very likely the first part of the Magdalenian. Cultural modifications were observed on this material and partly studied by Breuil and Obermaier (1909). A full study of the bones allowed us to point out a special mortuary practice including defleshing of the skulls, breakage of at least some of them in order to give them a particular shape, and, probably, a protective treatment.
ER  -