{"id":643,"date":"2017-09-04T09:35:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T07:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archeoweb.ch\/expo\/archeonimaux\/portraits-danimaux\/le-chat\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:35:34","slug":"le-chat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archeolab.app\/archeonimaux\/portraits-danimaux\/le-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Le chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Si les rives du Nil sont toujours consid\u00e9r\u00e9es comme le berceau de nos chats domestiques (<em>Felis sylvestris<\/em>), Chypre a r\u00e9cemment livr\u00e9 quelques tr\u00e8s anciens t\u00e9moignages sur la pr\u00e9sence de chat d\u00e8s le d\u00e9but du n\u00e9olithique, qui antidatent de 5000 ans la domestication de notre f\u00e9lin favori.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ainsi d\u00e8s la fin du IX<sup>e<\/sup> mill\u00e9naire avant notre \u00e8re, trouve-t-on une premi\u00e8re repr\u00e9sentation de chat. Sur le site de Skillourokambos (pr\u00e8s de Limassol), les arch\u00e9ologues ont mis au jour une t\u00eate sculpt\u00e9e dans un bloc de pierre locale, caract\u00e9ris\u00e9e par une face comportant plusieurs d\u00e9tails anatomiques en relief\u00a0: sourcils, yeux, nez. Les oreilles dress\u00e9es conf\u00e8rent \u00e0 cette sculpture son aspect si particulier de repr\u00e9sentation mi-humaine, mi-f\u00e9line. Elle repose sur un cou massif, peu \u00e9labor\u00e9. La pi\u00e8ce devait \u00eatre ins\u00e9r\u00e9e dans un mur, et seule la face devait \u00eatre visible. Le contexte arch\u00e9ologique dont elle provient contenait des charbons de bois dat\u00e9s de 8100 avant J.-C. Il s\u2019agit donc l\u00e0 de la premi\u00e8re repr\u00e9sentation de chat connue dans l\u2019espace m\u00e9diterran\u00e9en. Le probl\u00e8me est qu\u2019il n\u2019existe pas de f\u00e9lid\u00e9 dans la faune fossile de Chypre, \u00e0 une \u00e9poque aussi haute. Le professeur J. Guilaine pense que l\u2019animal repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 \u00e9voque des donn\u00e9es transmises \u00e0 partir des cultures continentales, tr\u00e8s probablement l\u2019\u00c9gypte.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Le chat appara\u00eet \u00e0 Chypre au d\u00e9but du N\u00e9olithique, probablement venu d\u2019\u00c9gypte\u00a0: il fut probablement transf\u00e9r\u00e9 du continent \u00e0 l\u2019\u00eele. Une tombe de Skillourokambos dat\u00e9e du VIII<sup>e<\/sup> mill\u00e9naire contenait les restes d\u2019un homme d\u2019environ trente ans, entour\u00e9 d\u2019une hache et d\u2019amulettes et de \u00ab\u00a0son\u00a0\u00bb chat, dispos\u00e9 dans une petite fosse, face \u00e0 lui. Le proc\u00e9d\u00e9 d\u2019enfouissement (l\u2019animal est pos\u00e9 dans une petite d\u00e9pression) montre qu\u2019il a \u00e9t\u00e9 inhum\u00e9 en tant qu\u2019individu, en m\u00eame temps que l\u2019homme. Non seulement cette d\u00e9couverte antidate donc de plus de 5000 ans la date de la domestication du chat, que l\u2019on situait en \u00c9gypte vers 3000\u00a0avant J.-C., mais elle montre que d\u00e8s cette \u00e9poque le chat est plus qu\u2019un animal domestique\u00a0: c\u2019est un animal de compagnie. Cette domestication remonte aussi haut que l\u2019agriculture, le stockage des denr\u00e9es et leur n\u00e9cessaire protection contre les rongeurs\u00a0: peut-\u00eatre cette domestication s\u2019est-elle d\u2019ailleurs r\u00e9alis\u00e9e en essayant d\u2019attirer les chats dans les zones d\u2019habitat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Plus pr\u00e8s de nous, au d\u00e9but du VI<sup>e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle avant notre \u00e8re, la chape de pl\u00e2tre coul\u00e9e sous le dallage des r\u00e9serves du Palais d\u2019Amathonte a laiss\u00e9 appara\u00eetre des traces de pattes de chat\u00a0: les chats d\u2019hier comme ceux d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui devaient appr\u00e9cier le contact de l\u2019enduit frais sous leur pattes\u00a0!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-815\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-815 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archeolab.app\/archeonimaux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/09\/fig.6-1024x861.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"441\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fouille de Shillourokambos : restes osseux d\u2019un homme \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 d\u2019un chat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-816\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-816 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archeolab.app\/archeonimaux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/09\/fig.7-649x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"828\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reconstitution de cet ensemble.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u21d2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archeolab.app\/archeonimaux\/portraits-danimaux\/le-renard\/\">Le renard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si les rives du Nil sont toujours consid\u00e9r\u00e9es comme le berceau de nos chats domestiques (Felis sylvestris), Chypre a r\u00e9cemment livr\u00e9 quelques tr\u00e8s anciens t\u00e9moignages sur la pr\u00e9sence de chat &hellip; 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