The Iranian Zagros is a remarkable zone to study Middle and Upper Palaeolithic human occupations and Tang-e Shikan (Arsanjan) is a strategic cave site which archaeological evidence can be taken as a proxy for the southeast portion. Micromammals have been extensively used as palaeoecological indicato...
Microblade technologies are a structuring component of the Late Pleistocene archaeology across the Bering Strait because of their wide chronological and geographical extension. To fully understand the techno-economical strategies underlying the success of this innovative toolkit in periglacial envir...
The second half of the European Middle Pleistocene (MIS 10-8) witness the end of Lower Palaeolithic, whiletechnical innovations specific to the Middle Palaeolithic already emerge sporadically. An increasingsystematisation and predetermination of small blank debitage are at the heart of this turning...
Issues of chronology are central to inferences pertaining to relationships between both contemporaneous and successive prehistoric typo-technological entities (i.e., archaeological cultures), culture–environment relationships, and ultimately the mechanisms at play behind cultural changes observed th...
Le débitage laminaire par pression debout (mode 4 : Pelegrin, 2012) est très répandu au Moyen-Orient entre le VIII e et le III e millénaire avant notre ère. Si les conditions chronoculturelles de son déploiement demeurent mal connues, son extension ne semble cependant intéresser qu'une portion de ce...
Certain methods of debitage involving increasing degrees of systematization or even predetermination of products app ear as from the end of the European Middle Pleistocene (Mourre and Colonge, 2007; Oosterbeek et al., 2010; Turq et al., 2010; Rubio Jara et al., 2016; Santonja et al., 2016; Di Modica...
SEMINAR/SÉMINAIRE Prehistory: new insights from zooarchaeology and lithic technology studies The new generation of researchers Monday 26th June, 2PM @ Ethiopian Heritage Authority - ARCCH / 3rd floor Meeting Hall New zooarchaeological data from the Plio-Pleistocene Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Vall...
The Khoekhoe pastoralist populations of South Africa are well documented in historical sources. Their archaeological remains nonetheless seem to differ very little from those of contemporary hunter-gatherer groups. Based on the discovery of a probable kraal at Kafferskuitje (KFS 5), on the Vredenbur...
In recent years, new data on the Late Glacial period in western France have allowed us to develop a model of chrono-cultural evolution based on comparative lithic technology and lithic hunting weapon elements. This period can be divided in to four main phases: Early Azilian, Late Azilian, Final Azil...
The Mesolithic site located in the western entrance of the cave of Les Fieux (Miers, Lot), excavated in the 1970’s by F. Champagne, has often been interpreted as a hunting camp. This hypothesis is mostly based on features of the lithic industry, which is largely dominated by weapon elements. The res...
L'Oldowan d'Afrique de l'Est a été documenté dans de multiples contextes de matières premières et environnements physiques et présente des différences considérables en termes de complexité technologique. L'influence relative des techniques de percussion et de la qualité des matières premières est au...
The Luangwa Basin, Zambia, which forms part of the Zambezi drainage, is strategically located between the Central African plateau and the East African Rift system. The Luangwa River and major tributaries, such as the Luwumbu River, are perennial water sources supporting essential resources that sust...
En 1995, D. Lavallée publie Promesse d'Amérique. La Préhistoire de l'Amérique du Sud, une monographie de référence encore à ce jour sous bien des aspects. Plus de vingt-cinq ans après, aucune autre publication de langue française n'a tenté de reproduire de projet aussi ambitieux portant sur l'ensemb...
Au cours des dernières années, nous avons entrepris la révision technoproductionnelle et/ou technofonctionnelle de collections lithiques de la façade atlantique de l'Afrique subsaharienne, attribuées à l'Acheuléen sur des bases typologiques au cours du xx e siècle. Cet article se présente comme un r...
The relationship between Earlier Stone Age (ESA) hominins and the southern African coastal environment has been poorly investigated, despite the high concentration of openair sites in marine and fluvial terraces of the coastal plain from c. 1Ma onward during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Southern...
À la fin du Pléistocène moyen, en Afrique du Nord, plusieurs complexes culturels co-existent. Leur détermination et leur définition font débat depuis plus d’un siècle. L’une des problématiques importantes des recherches paléolithiques en Afrique du Nord est la compréhension des liens qu’entretiennen...
Between 2016 and 2022, massive stone bead workshops associated to dwelling units were discovered at Chanhu-daro (Excavations 2 and 3) and dated to the first period of the Indus Civilization (2600/2500-2300 BCE). A huge amount of different raw materials (e.g. flint, steatite, agate, carnelian, jasper...
Research relating to cleavers can help to characterize the Middle Pleistocene European technocultural landscape, via a technomorphometric approach that provides insights into this tool’s composite involvement. A sample of 47 cleavers from the Lanne-Darré site were observed through two scales of tech...
Research relating to cleavers can help to characterize the Middle Pleistocene European technocultural landscape, via a technomorphometric approach that provides insights into this tool’s composite involvement. A sample of 47 cleavers from the Lanne-Darré site were observed through two scales of tech...
Le Paléolithique ancien des Pyrénées Atlantiques a été principalement documenté à travers quelques pièces isolées découvertes à la faveur de prospections menées sur les formations fluviales et littorales ainsi qu'à travers deux fouilles préventives récentes conduites sur les hauteurs de Bayonne. La...
The technocomplexes of the European Lower Palaeolithic are often attributed to the so-called Acheulean. Through several prehistoric sites located in the South Armorican coast, distinct and contemporary Acheulean cultural facies was proposed at the end of the 1980s. Based on the study of lithic indus...