19 octobre 2017
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Laure Fontana, « Les relations homme-animal dans les sociétés de chasseurs-collecteurs », CNRS Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.editionscnrs.11242
The author develops a global and integrated approach to the study of the exploitation of animal resources in Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer societies. First, she defines what she considers as an anthropological issue for zooarchaeological studies. She argues for the necessity of studying all faunal remains —including dietary wastes and osseous artefacts— in an integrated way. Examples from the study of Gravettian and Magdalenian settlements illustrate this type of cross-questioning and the results that can be obtained. Second, she shows how the animal-resource economy that may be reconstructed by such an integrated approach can be related to the exploitation of mineral resources in a given region —aiming at grasping the whole economic system, including the organisation and mobility patterns of human groups— through the example of French Massif Central Magdalenian societies.