There is a widely held belief among archaeologists that the paucity of infant burials in the European Gravettian (ca. 33,000–22,000 cal. bp) can be attributed to societal attitudes toward these young individuals. Specifically, it has been argued that infants were “discriminated” against by members of Gravettian society who did not consider infants as “people” until after weaning. Infants who died before this process was complete were not worthy of burial. This paper challenges this characterization of Gravettian infants by considering a wide range of taphonomic factors, drawing on newly discovered as well as existing but reinterpreted burial data, and contextualizing infant burials within the larger context of Gravettian burial practices. It concludes that at certain times and certain places, some Gravettian peoples buried their infants, and when they did, it was with great care and likely with great emotion at their passing.

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重新考虑 Gravettian 婴儿的人格

考古学家普遍认为，欧洲 Gravettian（约 33,000-22,000 cal. bp）中婴儿墓葬的缺乏可归因于社会对这些年轻人的态度。具体而言，有人认为婴儿受到 Gravettian 社会成员的“歧视”，他们直到断奶后才将婴儿视为“人”。在此过程完成之前死亡的婴儿不值得埋葬。本文通过考虑广泛的埋葬学因素，利用新发现的以及现有但重新解释的墓葬数据，以及在 Gravettian 墓葬实践的更大背景下将婴儿墓葬置于语境中，挑战了 Gravettian 婴儿的这种特征。它的结论是，在某些时间和某些地点，一些 Gravettian 人埋葬了他们的婴儿，