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Problems, Approaches and Fieldwork: 2004-2005
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The 2002–2003 discovery in the Pe ş tera cu Oase galleries
of the mandible and face of two early modern humans
(Chapter 2) raised a series of questions requiring an
archeological approach: Did additional remains of those
individuals exist? Did the cave also contain a material or
behavioral context (e.g., artifacts or features) that could be
associated with the fossil fi nds? Did such fi nds document
evidence of human activity inside the cave (e.g., resulting
from intentional burial, body disposal, accidental death),
or had they been brought in from the outside by natural
processes (e.g., sheet-wash, fl ooding, carnivores)? Were
the human bones contemporary with the abundant cave
bear remains among which they were found? What site
formation and taphonomic processes explained the spatial
distribution of the different categories of osteological
remains (of ursids, canids, caprines, cervids, and humans)
observed on the surface of the galleries? To answer these
questions, two archeological fi eld seasons (July 2004 and
July 2005) were carried out in the Pe ş tera cu Oase. Here,
we explain our approach and discuss the criteria underlying
the research strategy eventually adopted.
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Zilhão, J., Milota, Ş., Rodrigo, R., Constantin, S., & Trinkaus, E. (2013). Problems, Approaches and Fieldwork: 2004-2005. In E. Trinkaus, S. Constantin, & J. Zilhão (Eds.), Life and Death at the Peştera cu Oase: A Setting for Modern Human Emergence in Europe (pp. 16-30). Oxford: Oxford University Press.