Context, curation, and bias: an evaluation of the Middle Paleolithic collections of Combe-Grenal (France) |
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| Authors: | Harold L. Dibble Shannon P. McPherron Dennis Sandgathe Paul Goldberg Alain Turq Michel Lenoir |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;2. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany;3. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada;4. Department of Archaeology – Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, USA;5. Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, France;6. Université Bordeaux, UMR 5199 du CNRS (PACEA), Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire, 33405 Talence, France;1. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany;2. MONREPOS, Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Schloss Monrepos, D-56567 Neuwied, Germany;1. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain;2. IPHES – Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain;3. Area de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain;4. Institute of Archaeology, University College of London, Gordon Square 31-34, WC1H0PY London, UK;5. Histoire Naturelle de l’Homme Préhistorique – HNHP – UMR 7194, (CNRS - MNHN - UPVD - Sorbonne Université), 1 rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris & Musée de l’Homme, 17 Place du Trocadéro, 75016 Paris, France;1. Musée National de Préhistoire, UMR 5199 Pacea Université de Bordeaux I, 1 Rue du Musée, Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, France;2. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300RA Leiden, The Netherlands;3. Inrap AnTet/Arscan, Pôle mixte de Recherche, Domaine de Château Campagne, 24260 Campagne, France;4. UMR 5199 Pacea, équipe PPP, Université Bordeaux 1, bâtiment B18, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France;1. CNRS – Université Bordeaux 1, PACEA UMR 5199, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France;2. Institute of Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa;3. CNRS – Université Lyon 2, Archéorient UMR 5133, Maison de l''Orient et de la Méditerranée, 7 rue Raulin, 69007 Lyon, France;4. INRAP, 156 Avenue Jean Jaurès, 33600 Pessac, France;1. Museo Arqueológico Regional, Plaza de las Bernardas s/n, 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain;2. Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Pº Sierra de Atapuerca s/n, 09001 Burgos, Spain;3. Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Avda. Monforte de Lemos 5, Pabellón 14, 28029 Madrid, Spain;1. Center for Nuclear Technologies, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Risø Campus, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark;2. Institut de Recherche sur les Archéomatériaux, UMR 5060 CNRS – Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l''Archéologie (CRP2A), Maison de l''archéologie, 33607 Pessac Cedex, France;3. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany;4. Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, 7 rue de Madrid, 75008 Paris, France;5. Laboratoire TRACES, UMR 5608 CNRS-Université de Toulouse (Le Mirail), Maison de la Recherche, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France;6. School of Geography Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050 Johannesburg, South Africa;7. Département de Préhistoire, Muséum national d''histoire naturelle, UMR 7194 du CNRS, abri Pataud, 24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France;8. Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA;9. Institute for Human Origins, Arizona State University, USA;10. Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Rümelinstr. 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany;11. Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, USA;12. Musée national de Préhistoire, F-24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France;13. CNRS, Univ. Bordeaux, MCC, PACEA, UMR 5199, F-33400 Talence, France;14. Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence Dating, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, DTUNutech, Risø Campus, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark;15. Human Evolution Studies Program and Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada;p. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA |
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| Abstract: | The site of Combe-Grenal is arguably the reference site for the Mousterian of southwest France. Bordes excavated the site over a period of 13 years and generated a large collection of lithics and fauna from a deep series of 64 Lower and Middle Paleolithic levels. Though Bordes only partially published his work at the site, its long stratigraphic sequence and particularly its collections have been subjected to numerous studies over the years and have figured prominently in several long-running debates concerning the Mousterian. Recently, the authors undertook a project to inventory and analyzed these collections along with the documentation of their archaeological context. In so doing, however, a number of serious problems became apparent with the collection in its current state, problems that cannot easily be resolved given the state of the available documentation. These problems have important implications not only for results of studies based on these collections, but more generally, they also point to problems in terms of how archaeological collections are curated. |
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| Keywords: | Curation Combe-Grenal Mousterian Middle paleolithic France |
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