martes, 6 de marzo de 2012

Neandertals ma have adorned themselves with eagle claws

From the paper (Presumed Symbolic Use of Diurnal Raptors by Neanderthals):
Because claws are inedible, the specimens presented here are not compatible with human consumption. This means that the tool-marked terminal phalanges found at Combe-Grenal, Les Fieux, Pech de l'Azé IV, and Grotta di Fumane were likely used as tools and/or as items of symbolic expression. Although the sample size is small, the fact that all the terminal phalanges that show cutmarks are from eagles argues against their utilization in strictly non-symbolic contexts. This last pattern is noteworthy because eagles are among the rarest birds in the environment, a pattern explained by their high trophic position in the food web [31]. This bias toward large and powerful diurnal raptors possibly indicates that the claws were used in symbolically-oriented contexts by Neanderthals, although the latter contexts remain to be more precisely defined. One possibility is that they were used as ornaments, as has been suggested for the Upper Paleolithic occupations (dated to ca. 20 ka) at Meged Rockshelter in Israel [32].
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Neandertals may have adorned themselves with eagle claws

Link 2: 08-03-12.  Presumen que los neandertales utilizaban las garras de aves rapaces diurnas como ornamentos personales

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salaman.es dijo...

Añadido link a: Presumen que los neandertales utilizaban las garras de aves rapaces diurnas como ornamentos personales.