Resumen de A Neanderthal face? The proto-figurine from La Roche-Cotard, Langeais (Indreet-Loire, France)

Jean Claude Marquet, Michel Lorblanchet

• A worked stone from a secure Mousterian context has a bone splinter driven through it and appears to modern eyes like an attempt to represent a face. The authors argue that a face was indeed intended, and that the Roche-Cotard “proto-figurine” can be counted among the earliest art objects. At this place and date it should refer to a Neanderthal people.