Abstract In Prehistory, Paleolithic stone toolkits are allotted to distinct cultural phases, expl... more Abstract In Prehistory, Paleolithic stone toolkits are allotted to distinct cultural phases, explained through a periodization that has been adopted as a strategic reference by specialists in lithic studies, based on: 1) the categorization of morpho-types observed in the assemblages; 2) the dominant manufacture technologies and 3) temporal categorizations based on geo-archeological data. Significant changes in toolkits are observed through time, signaling variations in extinct hominin behavioral configurations. They characterize the denominative classifications of the techno-complexes, presently defined under consensus. Applying the Homogeneity, Variability, Diversity, Multiplicity (HVDM) paradigm as a conceptual scheme for understanding the structural evolution of human technologies, we define the Multiplicity phase, exploring the techno-social consequences of changes materialized in the Late Acheulian of Western Europe, presaging the Middle Paleolithic world of the Neandertals and the arrival on the scene of our own species; Homo sapiens. During this period, in Western Europe, Homo heidelbergensis was undergoing biological transformations, which appear to have fused into a range of hominin forms, raising questions of intra-species contacts and cultural exchange on a backdrop of branching evolutionary configurations. Beyond handaxe production, this period is marked by significant social and behavioral revolutions: changes in landscape use, high population mobility and inter-connectivity, tool-type diversity, technological innovations, as well as the expansion of distinct hominin clades throughout the Old World. We examine the impulses for these changes, in particular, the prominent role played by the mastery of fire in revolutionizing human socialization processes.
In Barranco León, with a chronology of 1.4 Ma, and slightly older than Fuente Nueva-3, 1.3 Ma, a ... more In Barranco León, with a chronology of 1.4 Ma, and slightly older than Fuente Nueva-3, 1.3 Ma, a deciduous tooth of Homo sp. has been unearthed in 2002 [1] and a huge assemblage of Oldowan (i. e. Mode 1) tools, made in flint and limestones, have been recovered in both localities. In addition, evidences of human modification are frequents on the bone surfaces, as cut-marks, resulting from disarticulation, defleshing and evisceration activities, and percussion marks that evidence bone fracturing for accessing marrow contents.
Ponencia presentada en: 15th Congress of PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and... more Ponencia presentada en: 15th Congress of PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies (PanAf): Rabat, Morocco, 10-14 september, 2018
The “Sima del Elefante” (TE site) (Atapuerca, Spain) is a major cave infill with a stratigraphic ... more The “Sima del Elefante” (TE site) (Atapuerca, Spain) is a major cave infill with a stratigraphic succession 25 m thick and 15 m wide, wealthy in animal bones and evidences of human occupation at different Pleistocene ages. TE site is under systematic excavation since 1996, and the inferior and superior levels are being dug up independently. The exposed section has been divided into 21 lito-stratigraphic units defined by major unconformities. Concerning the cave history, at least three main infill phases have been identified. The lower phase (TE8-TE14) is dated to Early Pleistocene (between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ago) on the basis of inverse paleomagnetics and belonging to the later Early Pleistocene on the basis of biochronology. The TE lower phase is providing a rich faunal assemblage, and shows evidence of human occupation. A set of stone tools of flint, and possibly, calcareous, is being found at these levels. Hence, the lower part of the TE section documents early presence of...
Le site de Payre a livre une industrie lithique abondante au sein de laquelle les pieces en quart... more Le site de Payre a livre une industrie lithique abondante au sein de laquelle les pieces en quartz et quartzite semblent avoir joue un role particulier. Il est probable que la majeure partie des eclats ait ete apportee sur le site deja debitee, ce qui s’inscrit a contresens des tendances deja relevees pour ces roches locales dans cette region. Nous avons pu mettre en evidence que les hommes recherchaient des zones actives de formes particulieres qui n’etaient pas exclusivement liees a une fonction specifique mais plutot a des actions diverses. The site of Payre has delivered a rich lithic industry in which the quartz and quartzite pieces seem to have played a specific role. It is very likely that most of the flakes were brought to the site already debites, which is contradictory to the tendencies established for these local stones of this region. We could show that these people were looking for specific shapes of active areas which were not only related to a specific function but ra...
Les fouilles minutieuses menees dans une grotte de la region de Taza, sur le littoral de l'Al... more Les fouilles minutieuses menees dans une grotte de la region de Taza, sur le littoral de l'Algerie, ont reveles des informations inedites sur le mode de vie de ses habitants voici plus de 16 000 ans.
The region of eastern Morocco is very rich in sites and archaeological remains. Many Pleistocene ... more The region of eastern Morocco is very rich in sites and archaeological remains. Many Pleistocene and Holocene sites have been discovered during the last 20 years. Systematic surveys and excavations were realized in the frame of the Spanish-Moroccan research project that started in 2006. Fieldwork permitted the identification of new archaeological Middle Stone Age open air sites in this region. It is the first time since the 1990’ (Wengler 1993a, 1993b, 1997; Wengler &Vernet 1992) that new sites belonging to this chronological period have been discovered in this region. Lithic assemblages, found on the surface as well as in stratigraphic position, are located on the exposed surfaces of river banks, around springs and on the slopes. ∗Intervenant †Auteur correspondant: gchacon@iphes.cat sciencesconf.org:uispp2018:182901 Since a technological point of view these sites contain a typologically and technologically homogeneous set of flake assemblages with a significant Levallois component ...
Abstract In Prehistory, Paleolithic stone toolkits are allotted to distinct cultural phases, expl... more Abstract In Prehistory, Paleolithic stone toolkits are allotted to distinct cultural phases, explained through a periodization that has been adopted as a strategic reference by specialists in lithic studies, based on: 1) the categorization of morpho-types observed in the assemblages; 2) the dominant manufacture technologies and 3) temporal categorizations based on geo-archeological data. Significant changes in toolkits are observed through time, signaling variations in extinct hominin behavioral configurations. They characterize the denominative classifications of the techno-complexes, presently defined under consensus. Applying the Homogeneity, Variability, Diversity, Multiplicity (HVDM) paradigm as a conceptual scheme for understanding the structural evolution of human technologies, we define the Multiplicity phase, exploring the techno-social consequences of changes materialized in the Late Acheulian of Western Europe, presaging the Middle Paleolithic world of the Neandertals and the arrival on the scene of our own species; Homo sapiens. During this period, in Western Europe, Homo heidelbergensis was undergoing biological transformations, which appear to have fused into a range of hominin forms, raising questions of intra-species contacts and cultural exchange on a backdrop of branching evolutionary configurations. Beyond handaxe production, this period is marked by significant social and behavioral revolutions: changes in landscape use, high population mobility and inter-connectivity, tool-type diversity, technological innovations, as well as the expansion of distinct hominin clades throughout the Old World. We examine the impulses for these changes, in particular, the prominent role played by the mastery of fire in revolutionizing human socialization processes.
In Barranco León, with a chronology of 1.4 Ma, and slightly older than Fuente Nueva-3, 1.3 Ma, a ... more In Barranco León, with a chronology of 1.4 Ma, and slightly older than Fuente Nueva-3, 1.3 Ma, a deciduous tooth of Homo sp. has been unearthed in 2002 [1] and a huge assemblage of Oldowan (i. e. Mode 1) tools, made in flint and limestones, have been recovered in both localities. In addition, evidences of human modification are frequents on the bone surfaces, as cut-marks, resulting from disarticulation, defleshing and evisceration activities, and percussion marks that evidence bone fracturing for accessing marrow contents.
Ponencia presentada en: 15th Congress of PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and... more Ponencia presentada en: 15th Congress of PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies (PanAf): Rabat, Morocco, 10-14 september, 2018
The “Sima del Elefante” (TE site) (Atapuerca, Spain) is a major cave infill with a stratigraphic ... more The “Sima del Elefante” (TE site) (Atapuerca, Spain) is a major cave infill with a stratigraphic succession 25 m thick and 15 m wide, wealthy in animal bones and evidences of human occupation at different Pleistocene ages. TE site is under systematic excavation since 1996, and the inferior and superior levels are being dug up independently. The exposed section has been divided into 21 lito-stratigraphic units defined by major unconformities. Concerning the cave history, at least three main infill phases have been identified. The lower phase (TE8-TE14) is dated to Early Pleistocene (between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ago) on the basis of inverse paleomagnetics and belonging to the later Early Pleistocene on the basis of biochronology. The TE lower phase is providing a rich faunal assemblage, and shows evidence of human occupation. A set of stone tools of flint, and possibly, calcareous, is being found at these levels. Hence, the lower part of the TE section documents early presence of...
Le site de Payre a livre une industrie lithique abondante au sein de laquelle les pieces en quart... more Le site de Payre a livre une industrie lithique abondante au sein de laquelle les pieces en quartz et quartzite semblent avoir joue un role particulier. Il est probable que la majeure partie des eclats ait ete apportee sur le site deja debitee, ce qui s’inscrit a contresens des tendances deja relevees pour ces roches locales dans cette region. Nous avons pu mettre en evidence que les hommes recherchaient des zones actives de formes particulieres qui n’etaient pas exclusivement liees a une fonction specifique mais plutot a des actions diverses. The site of Payre has delivered a rich lithic industry in which the quartz and quartzite pieces seem to have played a specific role. It is very likely that most of the flakes were brought to the site already debites, which is contradictory to the tendencies established for these local stones of this region. We could show that these people were looking for specific shapes of active areas which were not only related to a specific function but ra...
Les fouilles minutieuses menees dans une grotte de la region de Taza, sur le littoral de l'Al... more Les fouilles minutieuses menees dans une grotte de la region de Taza, sur le littoral de l'Algerie, ont reveles des informations inedites sur le mode de vie de ses habitants voici plus de 16 000 ans.
The region of eastern Morocco is very rich in sites and archaeological remains. Many Pleistocene ... more The region of eastern Morocco is very rich in sites and archaeological remains. Many Pleistocene and Holocene sites have been discovered during the last 20 years. Systematic surveys and excavations were realized in the frame of the Spanish-Moroccan research project that started in 2006. Fieldwork permitted the identification of new archaeological Middle Stone Age open air sites in this region. It is the first time since the 1990’ (Wengler 1993a, 1993b, 1997; Wengler &Vernet 1992) that new sites belonging to this chronological period have been discovered in this region. Lithic assemblages, found on the surface as well as in stratigraphic position, are located on the exposed surfaces of river banks, around springs and on the slopes. ∗Intervenant †Auteur correspondant: gchacon@iphes.cat sciencesconf.org:uispp2018:182901 Since a technological point of view these sites contain a typologically and technologically homogeneous set of flake assemblages with a significant Levallois component ...
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