Journal
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages 12-20Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2016.02.006
Keywords
Neandertal; Burial; Taphonomy; La Chapelle-aux-Saints; Middle Paleolithic; Mousterian; Southwestern France
Funding
- French ministry of Culture
- Archeosphere company (Quirbajou)
- research laboratory of TRACES (Toulouse)
- research laboratory of PACEA (Bordeaux)
- UMI CIRHUS (CNRS-NYU)
- municipality of La Chapelle-aux-Saints and its inhabitants
- Communaute de communes du Sud Correzien
- Fyssen Foundation
- University of Michigan
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In a reply to our paper presenting new evidence supporting an intentional Neanderthal burial at La Chapelle-aux-Saints (Correze, France), Dibble et al. (2015) reviewed our data in relation to the original Bouyssonie publications. They conclude that alternative hypotheses can account for the preservation of the human remains within a pit. Here we present new data from our recent excavations and highlight several misinterpretations of the Bouyssonie publications, which, when taken together refute most of their arguments. Moreover, we show that the different hypotheses proposed by Dibble et al. cannot work together and fail to provide a credible explanation for the deposit, reinforcing our demonstration that the burial hypothesis remains the most parsimonious explanation for the preservation of the Neanderthal skeletal material at La Chapelle-aux-Saints. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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