This contribution presents a general account and summary of the research carried out over
the past decades on the Quaternary faunas of France. This country is located in the center of …

This study of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from the Rhone Valley, in the South-East of
France, increases our understanding of Neanderthal subsistence strategies and modes of …

Mortality profiles have figured prominently among tools used by zooarchaeologists to
investigate relationships between hominids and prey species. Their analysis and …

Some French large mammal assemblages, from the Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene,
have been critically valued in the aim to operationally define biochronological unit …

A new methodology for estimating the age of death of horse, based on the degree of
hypsondonty, has been established using the dental material of Equus mosbachensis …

Excavations in later Middle Pleistocene levels at the Bau de l'Aubesier, Vaucluse, France
yielded a maxillary molar (M1 or M2; Aubesier 10) and a partial mandible from the left C1 …

Ungulate mortality profiles are commonly used to study Neanderthal subsistence strategies.
To assess the hunting strategies used by Neanderthals, we studied the ages at death of the …

The study of the lithic assemblages of two French sites, the Bau de l'Aubesier and Payre,
contributes new knowledge of the earliest Neanderthal techno-cultural variability. In this …

The variability of technical choices in the Rhône Valley (southeast France) is discussed in
relation to the age, environmental conditions, site localisation and site function. New …

Le présent travail traite des Caprinae et Antilopinae européens de 254 sites datant du
Pliocène terminal, du Pléistocène et de l'Holocène. Il fournit de nouvelles informations sur …