Marmot's hunting and exploitation in the western Alps and the southern Jura from Late Pleistocene to Holocene

Ancient and modern excavations in many prehistoric sites from the Alps and Jura delivered numerous remains of marmots. Bones were found in caves and rock-shelters occupied at the end of the Pleistocene to the beginning of Postglacial, between 10.000 and 6.000 years BC. A scapula with a fragment of an arrowhead, suggests the use of bow hunting during summer months. A detailed study of the exploitation of marmots shows that they were hunted for their fur, skin, meat and probably grease.