Mammouth et comportements de subsistance à l'Épigravettien : analyse archéozoologique du secteur de la fosse no 7 associée à l'habitation no 1 de Mezhyrich (Ukraine)

Zooarchaeological analyses were carried on new large mammal bone materials, from the Epigravettian (Late Upper Palaeolithic) site Mezhyrich (Ukraine), in the pit no 7 area associated with the mammoth bone dwelling no 1. The results exhibit a usage of the pit as a dump area of food and technical remains from mainly mammoth, hare and fox processing, and bone fuels. The information about mammoth procurement by the last Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in Eastern Europe allows to document the hunting activities on the mammoth populations, which were probably already weakened at the end of the Pleistocene.