William Rendu
Biographic Data
| ID | 93560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Rendu |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Rendu |
| SIGNATURE | RENDU W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Bordeaux |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2137-1276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 788 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The dentognathic material of the Neanderthals from Chagyrskaya (Altai, Russia)
Prey Selection and Transport Patterns in Neanderthal Bison Hunting
The article examines the hunting strategies employed by Neanderthals at Chagyrskaya Cave (Altai, Russia) through a comprehensive taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis of Bison priscus remains from Upper Pleistocene deposits. The research focuses on prey selection — specifically, the age and sex composition of hunted individuals and the preferential transportation of specific carcass segments to the cave. Taphonomic evidence confirms that the …
Middle Paleolithic bone industry in Central Asia, first evidence from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto (Uzbekistan)
A Newly Dated Late Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeological Assemblage from Bukhtarma Cave in the Southern Altai Piedmont, East Kazakhstan
The Altai mountains contain a number of cave and rockshelter sites that have given crucial information about human evolution in Asia. Most of these caves are located in the Gornyi Altai of Siberia, while the southern flank of the range remains much less known. Bukhtarma Cave was a karstic cave located near the former village of Peshchera, on the banks of the Bukhtarma River running through the foothills of the southern (Kazakh) Altai mountains. T…
Bison sex matters
Taphonomie et paléobiologie des Néandertaliens de la grotte de Chagyrskaya (Altaï, Russie)
Localisé au cœur de l’Eurasie, l’Altaï sibérien constitue actuellement la frange extrême-orientale de l’aire de répartition des Néandertaliens. Parmi les gisements de cette région livrant des restes humains rapportés à cette lignée, la grotte de Chagyrskaya (Altaï, Russie) recèle la collection paléoanthropologique la plus riche. Ce corpus fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches croisées à partir des données paléogénétiques et culturelles signalant …
Breaking Free from Field Layers
In order to track diachronic changes in archaeological sequences, researchers typically partition time into stratigraphic layers defined during fieldwork, which serve as the framework for ensuing analyses. These analytical units have a significant impact on archaeological inference, defining its resolution, and influencing both the study of cultural assemblages and the reconstruction of past environments. However, field layers are seldom re-evalu…
Identifying the unidentified fauna enhances insights into hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition
Understanding Palaeolithic hominin subsistence strategies requires the comprehensive taxonomic identification of faunal remains. The high fragmentation of Late Pleistocene faunal assemblages often prevents proper taxonomic identification based on bone morphology. It has been assumed that the morphologically unidentifiable component of the faunal assemblage would reflect the taxonomic abundances of the morphologically identified portion. In this s…
Dental Cementum in Anthropology
Selection versus opportunism
Using Cementochronology to Discuss the Organization of Past Neanderthal Societies
The activities’ spatial organization of Neanderthal’s territory is often explored by studying stone tool production and use, and its economy, but not their hunting behavior. Consequently, the hypothesis that Neanderthals lacked planning potential or complex land-use strategies during the Mousterian, such as collaborative hunting and food storage, has been questioned. A cementochronology analysis of reindeer in Quina and Discoidal Denticulate in f…
Back to the Root
Tremendous progress has been made since cementum analysis first applications in the 1950s. Today, with a better understanding of cementum biology, robust, replicable protocols support promising innovative research. Now, cementum should be considered within a broader evolutionary framework and cementogenesis tested from chronobiology theoretical assumptions to identify genetic or environmental variables affecting its circannual growth. With the ri…
Neanderthals' hunting seasonality inferred from combined cementochronology, mesowear, and microwear analysis
Herbivore teeth are a valuable source of information for inferring the hunting season of past hunter-gatherers, the spatial-temporal organization of their activities, their socio-economic organization, and their adaptation to the seasonal fluctuation of the resources. Numberless of studies have been conducted on Neanderthals across Eurasia, but only few of them rely on the application of cementochronology and tooth wear analyses combined to obtai…
Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia
Surungur - New Early Holocene Archaeological Site in Fergana Valley
The article presents the first results of a comprehensive study of the new archaeological site Surungur in the Fergana Valley. Interdisciplinary research was conducted in 2018-2019 by an international Russian-Kyrgyz expedition. The direct archeological work at the site was preceded by geophysical surveys, which helped to identify the most promising areas for future research. The archaeological excavations made it possible to identify a series of …
Human and Mammoth Fauna in the North of the Ob Basin in the Late Neopleistocene
Data on the Pleistocene megafauna and the earliest evidence of the presence of Palaeolithic humans on the territory of the Northern Ob river region are analyzed. The data about the geological and geomorphological situation in the lower reaches of the Ob river is presented, the deposits of the Late Neopleistocene are characterized, and the main regularities in the taphonomy of megafaunal remains are described. Changes in the species composition of…
Early occupation of High Asia
Unshaped Bone Tools from Denisova Cave, Altai
Слабомодифицированные костяные орудия из Денисовой пещеры на Алтае DOI: 10.17746/1563-0102.2020.48.1.016-028 М.Б. Козликин1, У. Рандю2, Х. Плиссон2, М. Боманн2, М.В. Шуньков1 1Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН пр. Академика Лаврентьева, 17, Новосибирск, 630090, Россия 2Университет Бордо, Франция Bordeaux University, UMR 5199, PACEA laboratory, Bat. B18, Allee Geoffroy St-Hilaire CS 50023, 33615 Pessac cedex, France В статье
The application of geometric-morphometric shape analysis to Middle Paleolithic bone retouchers from the Altai Mountains, Russia
A new Upper Paleolithic occupation at the site of Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)
The Neandertal bone industry at Chagyrskaya cave, Altai Region, Russia
Unshaped Bone Tools from Denisova Cave, Altai
The initial manuscript, validated by all the authors, was largely modified without informing the first two signatories before being formatted for publication. To not block the release of the issue in press, the order of the authors has been changed, the first two authors (becoming respectively the 4th and 3rd) acknowledging the raw data but not their interpretation nor their overall perspective.Le manuscrit initial, validé par tous les auteurs, f…
The Experience of the Interdisciplinary Field School to Study the Sites of the Stone Age
In the field season of 2019 in the territory of southern Kyrgyzstan, an interdisciplinary field school for the study of the Stone Age site was organized on the basis of the international Central Asian Paleolithic detachment, supported by the Scientific and Educational Center “New Archaeology” (Humanitarian Institute, Novosibirsk State University). The work of the school took place in the framework of three main blocks – lectures, excavation pract…
Results of Field Studies at the Obishir-5 Site in 2018–2019
Faunal Assemblage and Spatial Structure of the Initial Upper Paleolithic Site in Northern Mongolia (Tolbor-21)
Shifts in Neandertal mobility, technology and subsistence strategies in western France
Neandertal mobility and large-game hunting
Monospecific faunal spectra in Mousterian contexts
Hunting behavior and Neanderthal adaptability in the Late Pleistocene site of Pech-de-l'Azé I
Isotopic dietary analysis of a Neanderthal and associated fauna from the site of Jonzac (Charente-Maritime), France
Using ZooMS to identify fragmentary bone from the Late Middle/Early Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Les Cottés, France
Bone refits in stratified deposits
The Neandertal bone industry at Chagyrskaya cave, Altai Region, Russia
Premiers temps du Magdalénien en Gironde
The Magdalenian site of Saint-Germain-la-Rivière (Gironde, France) has often figured in debates and discussions about the Late Upper Palaeolithic of Western Europe. Most of the discussions are based on the material excavated by R. Blanchard — in particular the now well-known burial — as well as the more rigorous excavations by G. Trécolle in the slope deposits. After the detailed study of all this material by M. Lenoir, which allowed the material…
A new Upper Paleolithic occupation at the site of Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)
Unshaped Bone Tools from Denisova Cave, Altai
The initial manuscript, validated by all the authors, was largely modified without informing the first two signatories before being formatted for publication. To not block the release of the issue in press, the order of the authors has been changed, the first two authors (becoming respectively the 4th and 3rd) acknowledging the raw data but not their interpretation nor their overall perspective.Le manuscrit initial, validé par tous les auteurs, f…
Les pratiques ornementales à l’Aurignacien ancien dans le Centre-Ouest de la France
Le gisement des Cottés, situés aux marges sud-ouest du Bassin parisien, livre un abondant mobilier lithique et osseux des premières phases du Paléolithique supérieur (Châtelperronien, Protoaurignacien, Aurignacien ancien). Cette étude présente onze objets de parure découverts dans ce gisement à l’occasion des nouvelles fouilles et un artefact issu des anciennes fouilles. La série d’analyses mises en oeuvre pour ces éléments de parure met en évide…
Technologies for the Control of Heat and Light in the Vézère Valley Aurignacian
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 Paleol…
Neanderthals' hunting seasonality inferred from combined cementochronology, mesowear, and microwear analysis
Herbivore teeth are a valuable source of information for inferring the hunting season of past hunter-gatherers, the spatial-temporal organization of their activities, their socio-economic organization, and their adaptation to the seasonal fluctuation of the resources. Numberless of studies have been conducted on Neanderthals across Eurasia, but only few of them rely on the application of cementochronology and tooth wear analyses combined to obtai…
Identifying the unidentified fauna enhances insights into hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition
Understanding Palaeolithic hominin subsistence strategies requires the comprehensive taxonomic identification of faunal remains. The high fragmentation of Late Pleistocene faunal assemblages often prevents proper taxonomic identification based on bone morphology. It has been assumed that the morphologically unidentifiable component of the faunal assemblage would reflect the taxonomic abundances of the morphologically identified portion. In this s…
Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia
The challenges of identifying partially digested human teeth
Excavations at the collapsed cave site of Marillac (Marillac-le-Franc, Charente, France)1, uncovered in the lower half of the stratigraphy, a series of Late Pleistocene sedimentological facies containing a MIS 4/3 fauna. Also discovered were Middle Paleolithic artefacts (Quina Mousterian) and numerous fragmentary Neandertal fossils corresponding to a MNI of seven individuals.Analyses of the geomorphology of the eastern locus of the site, of the a…
The application of geometric-morphometric shape analysis to Middle Paleolithic bone retouchers from the Altai Mountains, Russia
Le Roc de Marcamps 2 (Prignac-et-Marcamps, Gironde)
Le Roc de Marcamps (Prignac-et-Marcamps, Gironde) est un site du Magdalénien moyen connu notamment par la découverte de nombreuses navettes dans les fouilles anciennes du secteur 1. Les travaux menés par Michel Lenoir dans le secteur 2 durant les années 1980 n’ont pas livré ce type de marqueur osseux mais un ensemble de vestiges attribués également à cette période. Plusieurs dates radiocarbone raisonnées placent ce gisement autour de 18900-18600 …
Mousterian Hunting Camps
Recent studies concerning the exploitation of the environment by Neanderthals have revealed the existence of short-term seasonal Mousterian occupations focused on hunting activities. The exact nature of these activities has rarely been addressed through inter-disciplinary studies, however. An interpretive framework that draws upon criteria from paleontology, zooarcheology, techno-economy, archeopetrography and paleotopography helps distill the mo…
Middle Paleolithic bone industry in Central Asia, first evidence from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto (Uzbekistan)
Surungur - New Early Holocene Archaeological Site in Fergana Valley
The article presents the first results of a comprehensive study of the new archaeological site Surungur in the Fergana Valley. Interdisciplinary research was conducted in 2018-2019 by an international Russian-Kyrgyz expedition. The direct archeological work at the site was preceded by geophysical surveys, which helped to identify the most promising areas for future research. The archaeological excavations made it possible to identify a series of …
Approche taphonomique en Cémentochronologie
Alors que la cémentochronologie est une méthode de plus en plus utilisée pour reconstituer la saisonnalité de prédation des animaux présents en contexte archéologique, peu d’études incluent la recherche systématique des modifications taphonomiques qui peuvent affecter le cément. Ce travail propose une présentation des phénomènes de remobilisations diagénétiques de l’enregistrement saisonnier. À travers la reprise de l’analyse du niveau 4 du gisem…
Approche interdisciplinaire et réflexions méthodologiques sur la question des haltes de chasse au moustérien
Les études récentes qui ont porté sur l’exploitation de l’environnement par les Néandertaliens ont mis en évidence l’existence, au Moustérien, de gisements témoignant d’occupations saisonnières de courte durée, spécialisées sur les activités de prédation. Cependant, le rôle précis de ces derniers est toujours discuté et n’a que rarement fait l’objet d’études interdisciplinaires. À partir de l’élaboration d’une grille de lecture commune reposant s…
Bone refits in stratified deposits
Isotopic dietary analysis of a Neanderthal and associated fauna from the site of Jonzac (Charente-Maritime), France
Saisonnalité de prédation du Bison du gisement moustérien de la Quina (Gardes-le-Pontaroux, Charente), niveau 6c. Apport à la compréhension des comportements de subsistance
Le gisement de la Quina est un site majeur du Paléolithique moyen du Sud-Ouest français. Les différentes fouilles qui s’y sont succédé ont mis au jour un nombre important de vestiges humains et une accumulation osseuse exceptionnelle. Le niveau 6c, attribué au Moustérien à denticulés, est caractérisé par un spectre faunique très largement dominé par le Bison. La position particulière du gisement au pied de la plus haute falaise de la région a pou…
Hunting behavior and Neanderthal adaptability in the Late Pleistocene site of Pech-de-l'Azé I
Approche taphonomique en Cémentochronologie
Alors que la cémentochronologie est une méthode de plus en plus utilisée pour reconstituer la saisonnalité de prédation des animaux présents en contexte archéologique, peu d’études incluent la recherche systématique des modifications taphonomiques qui peuvent affecter le cément. Ce travail propose une présentation des phénomènes de remobilisations diagénétiques de l’enregistrement saisonnier. À travers la reprise de l’analyse du niveau 4 du gisem…
Approche interdisciplinaire et réflexions méthodologiques sur la question des haltes de chasse au moustérien
Les études récentes qui ont porté sur l’exploitation de l’environnement par les Néandertaliens ont mis en évidence l’existence, au Moustérien, de gisements témoignant d’occupations saisonnières de courte durée, spécialisées sur les activités de prédation. Cependant, le rôle précis de ces derniers est toujours discuté et n’a que rarement fait l’objet d’études interdisciplinaires. À partir de l’élaboration d’une grille de lecture commune reposant s…
Mousterian Hunting Camps
Recent studies concerning the exploitation of the environment by Neanderthals have revealed the existence of short-term seasonal Mousterian occupations focused on hunting activities. The exact nature of these activities has rarely been addressed through inter-disciplinary studies, however. An interpretive framework that draws upon criteria from paleontology, zooarcheology, techno-economy, archeopetrography and paleotopography helps distill the mo…
Monospecific faunal spectra in Mousterian contexts
Shifts in Neandertal mobility, technology and subsistence strategies in western France
Neandertal mobility and large-game hunting
Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe
Modern humans replaced Neandertals ∼40,000 y ago. Close to the time of replacement, Neandertals show behaviors similar to those of the modern humans arriving into Europe, including the use of specialized bone tools, body ornaments, and small blades. It is highly debated whether these modern behaviors developed before or as a result of contact with modern humans. Here we report the identification of a type of specialized bone tool, lissoir , previ…
Clay minerals of late Pleistocene sites (Jonzac and Les Cottés, SW France)
Evidence supporting an intentional Neandertal burial at La Chapelle-aux-Saints
Significance For several decades, scholars have questioned the existence of burial in Western Europe prior to the arrival of Anatomically Modern Humans. Therefore, an approach combining a global field recovery and the reexamination of the previously discovered Neandertal remains has been undertaken in the site of La Chapelle-aux-Saints (France), where the hypothesis of a Neandertal burial was raised for the first time. This project has concluded …
Les pratiques ornementales à l’Aurignacien ancien dans le Centre-Ouest de la France
Le gisement des Cottés, situés aux marges sud-ouest du Bassin parisien, livre un abondant mobilier lithique et osseux des premières phases du Paléolithique supérieur (Châtelperronien, Protoaurignacien, Aurignacien ancien). Cette étude présente onze objets de parure découverts dans ce gisement à l’occasion des nouvelles fouilles et un artefact issu des anciennes fouilles. La série d’analyses mises en oeuvre pour ces éléments de parure met en évide…
Using ZooMS to identify fragmentary bone from the Late Middle/Early Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Les Cottés, France
Le Roc de Marcamps 2 (Prignac-et-Marcamps, Gironde)
Le Roc de Marcamps (Prignac-et-Marcamps, Gironde) est un site du Magdalénien moyen connu notamment par la découverte de nombreuses navettes dans les fouilles anciennes du secteur 1. Les travaux menés par Michel Lenoir dans le secteur 2 durant les années 1980 n’ont pas livré ce type de marqueur osseux mais un ensemble de vestiges attribués également à cette période. Plusieurs dates radiocarbone raisonnées placent ce gisement autour de 18900-18600 …
Premiers temps du Magdalénien en Gironde
The Magdalenian site of Saint-Germain-la-Rivière (Gironde, France) has often figured in debates and discussions about the Late Upper Palaeolithic of Western Europe. Most of the discussions are based on the material excavated by R. Blanchard — in particular the now well-known burial — as well as the more rigorous excavations by G. Trécolle in the slope deposits. After the detailed study of all this material by M. Lenoir, which allowed the material…
Let the dead speak…comments on Dibble et al.'s reply to “Evidence supporting an intentional burial at La Chapelle-aux-Saints”
The challenges of identifying partially digested human teeth
Excavations at the collapsed cave site of Marillac (Marillac-le-Franc, Charente, France)1, uncovered in the lower half of the stratigraphy, a series of Late Pleistocene sedimentological facies containing a MIS 4/3 fauna. Also discovered were Middle Paleolithic artefacts (Quina Mousterian) and numerous fragmentary Neandertal fossils corresponding to a MNI of seven individuals.Analyses of the geomorphology of the eastern locus of the site, of the a…
Technologies for the Control of Heat and Light in the Vézère Valley Aurignacian
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 Paleol…
The Experience of the Interdisciplinary Field School to Study the Sites of the Stone Age
In the field season of 2019 in the territory of southern Kyrgyzstan, an interdisciplinary field school for the study of the Stone Age site was organized on the basis of the international Central Asian Paleolithic detachment, supported by the Scientific and Educational Center “New Archaeology” (Humanitarian Institute, Novosibirsk State University). The work of the school took place in the framework of three main blocks – lectures, excavation pract…
Results of Field Studies at the Obishir-5 Site in 2018–2019
Faunal Assemblage and Spatial Structure of the Initial Upper Paleolithic Site in Northern Mongolia (Tolbor-21)
Results of Field Study at the Chez-Pinaud Site (Jonzac, France) in 2019
Early occupation of High Asia
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