Elise Tartar
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012
Randall White; Romain Mensan; Raphaëlle Bourrillon; Catherine Cretin; Thomas Higham; Amy E. Clark; Matthew Sisk; Elise Tartar; Philippe Gardère; Paul Goldberg; Jacques Pelegrin; Hélène Valladas; Nadine Tisnérat-Laborde; Jacques de Sanoit; Dominique Chambellan; Laurent Chiotti
We report here on the 2007 discovery, in perfect archaeological context, of part of the engraved and ocre-stained undersurface of the collapsed rockshelter ceiling from Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. The decorated surface of the 1.5-t roof-collapse block was in direct contact with the exposed archaeological surface onto which it fell. Because there was no sedimentation between the engraved surface and the archaeological layer upon which it collapsed, it is clear that the Early Aurignacian occupants of the shelter were the authors of the ceiling imagery. This discovery contributes an important dimension to our understanding of the earliest graphic representation in southwestern France, almost all of which was discovered before modern methods of archaeological excavation and analysis. Comparison of the dates for the Castanet ceiling and those directly obtained from the Chauvet paintings reveal that the “vulvar” representations from southwestern France are as old or older than the very different wall images from Chauvet.
Current Anthropology | 2017
Randall White; Romain Mensan; Amy E. Clark; Elise Tartar; Laurent Marquer; Raphaëlle Bourrillon; Paul Goldberg; Laurent Chiotti; Catherine Cretin; William Rendu; Anne Pike-Tay; Sarah Ranlett
We can trace the beginnings of our knowledge of early Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian) use of fire to the pioneering 1910–1911 excavations at Abri Blanchard undertaken by Louis Didon and Marcel Castanet. At Blanchard, the excavators recognized and described fire structures that correspond in many ways to features excavated more recently in Western and Central Europe. Here, we address the issue of heat and light management in the early Upper Paleolithic, demonstrating a pattern that builds on these early excavations but that is refined through our recent field operations. Topics to be discussed include (1) recently excavated fire structures that suggest complex fire management and use, (2) the seemingly massive use of bone as fuel in most early Aurignacian sites, and (3) the anchoring of skin structures for purposes of heat retention with fireplaces behind animal-skin walls. Furthermore, new data on activities around fireplaces make it possible to infer social and organizational aspects of fire structures within Aurignacian living spaces. The vast majority of early Aurignacian occupations, most of them now dated to between 33,000 and 32,000 BP (uncalibrated), occurred on a previously unoccupied bedrock platform into which the occupants dug their fire features.
Journal of Archaeological Science | 2013
Elise Tartar; Randall White
Normes techniques et pratiques sociales : de la simplicité des outillages pré- et protohistoriques | 2004
Elise Tartar; Nicolas Teyssandier; François Bon; Despina Liolios
Quaternary International | 2017
Raphaëlle Bourrillon; Randall White; Elise Tartar; Laurent Chiotti; Romain Mensan; Amy E. Clark; J.-C. Castel; Catherine Cretin; Thomas Higham; André Morala; Sarah Ranlett; Matthew Sisk; Thibaut Devièse; Daniel Comeskey
PALEO. Revue d'archéologie préhistorique | 2012
Romain Mensan; Raphaëlle Bourrillon; Catherine Cretin; Randall White; Philippe Gardère; Laurent Chiotti; Matthew Sisk; Amy E. Clark; Thomas Higham; Elise Tartar
Les sociétés du Paléolithique dans un Grand Sud-Ouest de la France : nouveaux gisements, nouveaux résultats, nouvelles méthodes. | 2006
Jean-Guillaume Bordes; Foni Lebrun-Ricalens; Jean-Christophe Castel; Sylvain Ducasse; Jean-Philippe Faivre; Valérie Feruglio; Dominique Henry-Gambier; François Lacrampe-Cuyaubère; Véronique Laroulandie; Arnaud Lenoble; Hélène Martin; Bruno Maureille; André Morala; Caroline Renard; William Rendu; Solange Rigaud; Hélène Rougier; Elise Tartar; Pierre-Jean Texier; Nicolas Teyssandier
PALEO. Revue d'archéologie préhistorique | 2014
Elise Tartar; Randall White; Laurent Chiotti; Catherine Cretin; Romain Mensan
Anthropologica et Praehistorica | 2013
Damien Flas; Elise Tartar; Jean-Guillaume Bordes; Foni Le Brun-Ricalens; Nicolas Zwyns
Archive | 2011
Patrick Semal; Cécile Jungels; Kévin Di Modica; Damien Flas; Anne Hauzeur; Michel Toussaint; Stéphane Pirson; Gennadyi Khlopachev; Damien Pesesse; Elise Tartar; Isabelle Crevecoeur; Hélène Rougier; Bruno Maureille