La grande faune des brèches de Genay (Côte-d'Or) (France) : les fouilles de l'Abbé Joly] [The Large Fauna in the Genay Breccia (Côte-d'Or) (France): Abbot Joly's Excavations].

Résumé

The fauna found in the Genay Breccia (Côte-d'Or) by abbe' Joly's excavation is fairly abundant. Horse is the prevailing species, it is akin to the sub-species Equus caballus cf. germanicus. Bovines, like aurochs and bison, are well represented. Other animals, about 10% of the material, are by order of numerical important Rangifer tarandus, Mammuthus primigenius, cervus elaphus, Crocuta crocuta, Coelodonta antiquitatis ?, Panthera (Leo) spelaea, Ursus spelaeus, Megaceros, Rupicapra rupicapra, Sus scrofa, Oryctolagus cuniclus and Marmota marmota. The last four species are represented only by a piece of bone. Mousterians became specialized in horse hunting without apparently any age selection. Some of the bone splinters bearing traces of work, notably five of them, plus a first phalanx of horse, might be "compresseurs". The landscape was then very open, and steppe prevailed in a cold and dry climate not allowing for a large development of the forest. The study of large mammals has led to locate this site stratigraphically in the second part of Wurm II (phases IV and/or V defined at Hortus).