Essays

Can we still hear the Cro-magnon man?

Pierre-François Puech orcid.org/0000-0003-4487-5426 ; Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, France
Bernard Puech ; Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Lille, Hôpital Roger Salengro, Lille, France

Abstract

This paper is an essay to connect with the stone Age coastal hunters who sheltered 28,000 years ago in the caves of today’s italian Mediterranean sea shore cliffs. We have focused on the archaeological Gravettian layer in the Cavillon cave from Grimaldi occupied by Cro Magnons (informal name for Anatomically Modern Humans of the European Upper Paleolithic), which demonstrates the technical skills of the phase. Cro Magnons, like Neanderthals, were seasonally nomadic; however, the diversity of the resources exploited within the territory along the Grimaldi sea coast suggests a longer term site within which a complex symbolic culture developed.

Keywords

Culture; Archaeology; Anthropology; Prehistory; society; Art; Mortuary sciences

Hrčak ID:

96423

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/96423

Publication date:

17.12.2012.

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