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SUBMITTER: Caron F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3126825 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Caron François F d'Errico Francesco F Del Moral Pierre P Santos Frédéric F Zilhão João J
PloS one 20110629 6
<h4>Background</h4>The question of whether symbolically mediated behavior is exclusive to modern humans or shared with anatomically archaic populations such as the Neandertals is hotly debated. At the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France, the Châtelperronian levels contain Neandertal remains and large numbers of personal ornaments, decorated bone tools and colorants, but it has been suggested that this association reflects intrusion of the symbolic artifacts from the overlying Protoaurignacian ...[more]