Université de Fribourg

Effects of Bears on Rockshelter Sediments at Tanay Sur-les-Creux, Southwestern Switzerland

Braillard, Luc ; Guélat, Michel ; Rentzel, Philippe

In: Geoarchaeology, 2004, vol. 19, no. 4, p. 343-367

Sur-les-Creux rockshelter is located in the Prealps of southwestern Switzerland. The sequence of deposits in the rockshelter is 80 cm thick and consists of weathered gravels in a phosphate-rich matrix. A few Middle Palaeolithic artifacts and the bones of cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) were recorded in the fill. We present the results of sedimentological, geochemical, and micromorphological analyses...