... -proposed models are difficult to support with the given bodies of evidence. However, Mellars notes that in The faunal assemblages recovered from the Chatelperronian levels at La Ferrassie, Roc de Combe, Le Paige, Les Cottes, Fontenioux, La Chevre, Pair-non-Pair, Saint-Cesaire, Quincay, Arcy sur Cure, and Chtelperron itself, it would appear that these final Neandertal groups practiced a relatively broad-spectrum foraging ... ...

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... of its members, and that religiousness is therefore a function of social belonging was first suggested by French sociologist AmileDurkheim. According to his classic theory, set forth in Les Formes AclAcmentaires de la vie religieuse: Le systA"me totemique en Australie (1912; translated as The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, 1965), the distinguishing mark of religion in its most basic form is ... ...

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