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Comptes Rendus comptes rendus palevol 2020 19 11 DIRECTEURS DE LA PUBLICATION / PUBLICATION DIRECTORS : Bruno David, Président du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Étienne Ghys, Secrétaire perpétuel de l’Académie des sciences RÉDACTEURS EN CHEF / EDITORS-IN-CHIEF : Michel Laurin (CNRS), Philippe Taquet (Académie des sciences) ASSISTANTE DE RÉDACTION / ASSISTANT EDITOR : Adeline Lopes (Académie des sciences; [email protected]) MISE EN PAGE / PAGE LAYOUT : Audrina Neveu (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; [email protected]) RÉDACTEURS ASSOCIÉS / ASSOCIATE EDITORS (*, took charge of the editorial process of the article/a pris en charge le suivi éditorial de l’article) : Micropaléontologie/Micropalaeontology Maria Rose Petrizzo (Università di Milano, Milano) Paléobotanique/Palaeobotany Cyrille Prestianni (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels) Métazoaires/Metazoa Annalisa Ferretti (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena) Paléoichthyologie/Palaeoichthyology Philippe Janvier (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Académie des sciences, Paris) Amniotes du Mésozoïque/Mesozoic amniotes Hans-Dieter Sues (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington) Tortues/Turtles Juliana Sterli (CONICET, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew) Lépidosauromorphes/Lepidosauromorphs Hussam Zaher (Universidade de São Paulo) Oiseaux/Birds Éric Buffetaut (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris) Paléomammalogie (petits mammifères)/Palaeomammalogy (small mammals) Robert Asher (Cambridge University, Cambridge) Paléomammalogie (mammifères de moyenne et grande taille)/Palaeomammalogy (large and mid-sized mammals) Lorenzo Rook (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze) Paléoanthropologie/Palaeoanthropology Roberto Macchiarelli (Université de Poitiers, Poitiers) Archéologie préhistorique/Prehistoric archaeology Marcel Otte* (Université de Liège, Liège) COUVERTURE / COVER : Made from the Figures of the article. Comptes Rendus Palevol est indexé dans / Comptes Rendus Palevol is indexed by: – Cambridge Scientific Abstracts – Current Contents® Physical – Chemical, and Earth Sciences® – ISI Alerting Services® – Geoabstracts, Geobase, Georef, Inspec, Pascal – Science Citation Index®, Science Citation Index Expanded® – Scopus®. Les articles ainsi que les nouveautés nomenclaturales publiés dans Comptes Rendus Palevol sont référencés par / Articles and nomenclatural novelties published in Comptes Rendus Palevol are registered on: – ZooBank® (http://zoobank.org) Comptes Rendus Palevol est une revue en flux continu publiée par les Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris et l’Académie des sciences, Paris Comptes Rendus Palevol is a fast track journal published by the Museum Science Press, Paris and the Académie des sciences, Paris Les Publications scientifiques du Muséum publient aussi / The Museum Science Press also publish: Adansonia, Geodiversitas, Zoosystema, Anthropozoologica, European Journal of Taxonomy, Naturae, Cryptogamie sous-sections Algologie, Bryologie, Mycologie. L’Académie des sciences publie aussi / The Académie des sciences also publishes: Comptes Rendus Mathématique, Comptes Rendus Physique, Comptes Rendus Mécanique, Comptes Rendus Chimie, Comptes Rendus Géoscience, Comptes Rendus Biologies. Diffusion – Publications scientifiques Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CP 41 – 57 rue Cuvier F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) Tél. : 33 (0)1 40 79 48 05 / Fax : 33 (0)1 40 79 38 40 [email protected] / http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr Académie des sciences, Institut de France, 23 quai de Conti, 75006 Paris. © Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle / © Académiedes sciences, Paris, 2020 ISSN (imprimé / print) : 1631-0683/ ISSN (électronique / electronic) : 1777-571X Taphonomic analysis of horse remains from Mousterian and Aurignacian Units from Bize-Tournal Cave (Aude, France) Juan MARÍN Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Zona Educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona (Spain) and UMR 7194, MNHN, CNRS, Histoire naturelle de l’Homme préhistorique, Musée de l’Homme, 75116 Paris (France) [email protected] (corresponding author) Antonio RODRÍGUEZ-HIDALGO Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Complutense University, Prof. Aranguren s/n, 28040, Madrid (Spain) and IDEA (Instituto de Evolución en África), Calle Covarrubias 36, 28010, Madrid (Spain) and Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Zona Educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona (Spain) Palmira SALADIÉ Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Zona Educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona (Spain) and Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament d’Història i Història de l’Art, Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona (Spain) and Unit Associated to CSIC, Departamento de Paleobiologia, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid (Spain) Nicolas BOULBES UMR 7194, MNHN, CNRS, Histoire naturelle de l’Homme préhistorique, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, EPCC - Centre européen de recherche préhistoriques, Av. Léon-Jean Grégory, 66720 Tautavel (France) Pierre MAGNIEZ Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Minist Culture, LAMPEA, UMR 7269, MMSH, 5 rue du Château de l’Horloge, 13094, Aix-en-Provence, (France) Agnès TESTU UMR 7194, MNHN, CNRS, Histoire naturelle de l’Homme préhistorique, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, EPCC - Centre européen de recherche préhistoriques, Av. Léon-Jean Grégory, 66720 Tautavel (France) Anne-Marie MOIGNE UMR 7194, MNHN, CNRS, Histoire naturelle de l’Homme préhistorique, Musée de l'Homme, 75116 Paris (France) and EPCC - Centre européen de recherche préhistoriques, Av. Léon-Jean Grégory, 66720 Tautavel (France) Submitted on 30 September 2019 | Accepted on 3 December 2019 | Published on 14 December 2020 COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL • 2020 • 19 (11) © Publications scientifiques du Muséum et/and Académie des sciences, Paris. www.cr-palevol.fr 187 Marín J. et al. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5832F936-5462-41A8-89CB-1358EA2C3514 Marín J., Rodríguez-Hidalgo A., Saladié P., Boulbes N., Magniez P., Testu A. & Moigne A.-M. 2020. — Taphonomic analysis of horse remains from Mousterian and Aurignacian Units from Bize-Tournal Cave (Aude, France). Comptes Rendus Palevol 19 (11): 187-213. https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2020v19a11 ABSTRACT The study of ungulate assemblages is essential to understand hominins and carnivore behavior and interactions. For this reason, many studies involve the taphonomic analysis of faunal remains, focus- ing on the identification of the various biotic actors. This study looks at the horse assemblages from Mousterian and Aurignacian Units I, II and III from Bize-Tournal cave with the aim to character- izing the nature of this accumulation. Here we show that the horse remains in these units are mainly the consequence of carnivoran activity. Unit II also clearly evidences the fact that the assemblage is the result of hyena activity. Our analysis indicates a predominance of cranial remains and lower long limb bones (metapodials). The mortality profiles of the three units are different, although two are KEY WORDS Mousterian, classic of a cursorial predator. Taphonomical and statistical analysis indicated that carnivores were Aurignacian, the main modifying agent at the three units. Our results demonstrate that hominins played a minor carnivorans, role in horse accumulation. Additionally, it seems that there was little difference in the exploitation Taphotype, hyena, in this specie by Mousterian and Aurignacian groups, and this probably took place during short, horse. sporadic hominin occupations. RÉSUMÉ Analyse taphonomique des restes de chevaux des unités moustériennes et aurignaciennes de la grotte de Bize- Tournal (Aude, France). L’étude des assemblages d’ongulés est essentielle pour comprendre le comportement et les interactions entre hominidés et carnivores. Pour cette raison, de nombreuses études impliquent l’analyse tapho- nomique des restes de faune, en se concentrant sur l’identification des différents acteurs biotiques. Cette étude examine les assemblages de chevaux des Unités I, II et III ( moustériennes et aurigna- ciennes) de la grotte de Bize-Tournal dans le but de caractériser la nature de cette accumulation. Nous montrons ici que les restes de cheval dans ces unités sont principalement la conséquence de l’activité de mammifères carnivores. L’Unité II met également en évidence le fait que l’assemblage est le résultat de l’activité de la hyène. Notre analyse indique une prédominance des restes crâniens et des os de membres inférieurs longs (métapodes). Les profils de mortalité des trois unités sont différents, bien que deux soient classiques d’un prédateur coureur. Des analyses taphonomiques MOTS CLÉS Moustérien, et statistiques ont montré que les carnivores étaient le principal agent modificateur dans les trois Aurignacien, unités. Nos résultats démontrent que les hominines ont joué un rôle mineur dans l’accumula- carnivore, tion des restes de chevaux. De plus, il semble qu’il y ait eu peu de différences dans l’exploitation Taphotype, hyène, de cette espèce par les groupes moustériens et aurignaciens, et cela s’est probablement passé pendant cheval. des occupations courtes et sporadiques d’hominines. INTRODUCTION nomic agents has been crucial in zooarchaeological studies focused on reconstructing site formation (Faith & Behrens- In the Palaearctic area, caves were the focus for occupation meyer 2006;
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