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Marylène Patou-Mathis, researcher at the CNRS, is also in charge of the zooarchaeology department at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
Marylène Patou-Mathis - Ferrassie-TV
A passionate militant in her own manner, Marylène Patou-Mathis is fighting to prove that Neanderthal is by no means inferior to Cro Magnon.
She has learnt much about Neanderthal’s lifestyle and hunting habits by studying the faunal remains found near him.
How she sees our man: a clever hunter, inventive and skillful, well blessed by nature which was his provider and which he safeguarded for 300,000 years.
Did Neanderthal and Cro Magnon ever come into contact? And if so, what went on between them? That’s the big question now.
Marylène Patou-Mathis gives credit to the well informed amateurs whose relentless searching has often led to fine discoveries.
Jonas and Mykolas by Jean-Michel Degeix
Archaeology, a passion. Good advice for the younger generation who would like to make it their job.
Why did they disappear? Could stress have caused a decline in population when Homo Sapiens arrived on the scene?
Skeleton, La Chapelle-aux-Saints
In France, the first Neanderthal burial site was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in Corrèze. The finders were Abbots Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie and Louis Bardon.
La Ferrassie burial site
Some time later, an unparalleled find: no fewer than 7 tombs with a man, a woman and children discovered side by side at La Ferrassie.
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