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Care Among the Neandertals: La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 and La Ferrassie 1 (Case Study 2)

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Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care

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Chapter 9 considers what the evidence suggesting health-related care practice seen in the remains of two Neandertals, La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 and La Ferrassie 1, may indicate about behavioural complexity in the European Upper Middle Palaeolithic. This chapter also illustrates how bioarchaeology of care analysis copes with incomplete and ambiguous evidence (from both a bioanthropological and archaeological perspective) when attempting to infer and interpret the provision of care - a situation commonly encountered in this area of research. This case study is particularly important because it demonstrates the capacity of the bioarchaeology of care approach to help address some long-standing and fundamental questions concerning cognition and behaviour in an earlier species.

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Tilley, L. (2015). Care Among the Neandertals: La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 and La Ferrassie 1 (Case Study 2). In: Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care. Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18860-7_9

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