Projectile technology is commonly viewed as a significant contributor to past human subsistence a... more Projectile technology is commonly viewed as a significant contributor to past human subsistence and, consequently, to our evolution. Due to the allegedly central role of projectile weapons in the food-getting strategies of Upper Palaeolithic people, typo-technological changes in the European lithic record have often been linked to supposed developments in hunting weaponry. Yet, relatively little reliable functional data is currently available that would aid the detailed reconstruction of past weapon designs. In this paper, we take a use-wear approach to the backed tool assemblages from the Recent and Final Gravettian layers (Levels 3 and 2) of Abri Pataud (Dordogne, France). Our use of strict projectile identification criteria relying on combinations of low and high magnification features and our critical view of the overlap between production and use-related fractures permitted us to confidently identify a large number of used armatures in both collections. By isolating lithic proj...
Lars Anderson∗1, Nicolas Teyssandier∗1, Jean-Guillaume Bordes, Laurent Chiotti, Damien Flas, Alex... more Lars Anderson∗1, Nicolas Teyssandier∗1, Jean-Guillaume Bordes, Laurent Chiotti, Damien Flas, Alexandre Michel, Christian Normand, Marie-Cécile Soulier, and Elise Tartar Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) – Université Toulouse 2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5608 – Maison de la Recherche, 5 allée Antonio Machado 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9, France PACEA (de la Préhistoire à l’Actuel : Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie) – Université de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France), CNRS : UMR5199, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – UMR 5199 PACEA Université de Bordeaux Bâtiment B8 Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire CS 50023 33615 PESSAC CEDEX, France Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) – Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, Ministère de l’écologie de l’Energie, du Développement durable et de l’Aménagement du territoire – abri Pataud 20 rue du Moyen-Âge 24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac...
ABSTRACT What is the status of the human remains from the Level 2 of the Abri Pataud? This is the... more ABSTRACT What is the status of the human remains from the Level 2 of the Abri Pataud? This is the question that a multidisciplinary team has tried to answer with a threefold approach: new excavations, detailed review of the collections and detailed historiographical analysis of the former excavations (HL Movius). The Level 2 of the Abri Pataud, which is a reference site for the French Upper Palaeolithic, is dated to -22 000 years. It is attributed to the final Gravettian. This book, through the contributions of 18 authors, presents the results gathered during the first five years of excavation and study (2005-2009) placing it in a the broader context of the final Gravettian in France. It brings new elements of interpretation concerning the human occupation and examines the original burial behavior observed in the Level 2.
Western Europe is often used as the basis from which to understand the Aurignacian of other regio... more Western Europe is often used as the basis from which to understand the Aurignacian of other regions. For some there is good inter-regional chronocultural agreement, whereas others see significant difference. One region frequently argued to differ is the Swabian Jura (southern Germany). In a recent contribution to this issue Bataille and Conard (2018) describe the Aurignacian assemblage from Layer IV of Hohle Fels. They convincingly outline important similarities with the Western European Late Aurignacian. However, they also argue that it is older than, and different from, the most comparable Western European assemblages, and therefore that it contradicts an Aurignacian chronocultural framework built on Western European evidence. Here we assess this claim, focusing on the sites used by Bataille and Conard in their comparison. Radiocarbon dates for Hohle Fels IV of 33–30,000 uncalbpare no older than dates for Western European Late Aurignacian assemblages. Most of the features of Hohle...
La reprise des fouilles dans deux abris aurignaciens du vallon des Roches (Sergeac, Dordogne, Fra... more La reprise des fouilles dans deux abris aurignaciens du vallon des Roches (Sergeac, Dordogne, France), les abris Castanet (2005-2012) et Blanchard (2011-2012), sous la direction de R. White a permis d’obtenir de nouvelles series fiables et de renouveler les connaissances et la reflexion sur l’Aurignacien de ces deux sites de reference. L’abri Castanet, fouille sur une surface de plusieurs metres carres a livre un niveau unique, directement sur le substrat rocheux. L’abri Blanchard, bien que vide en quasi-totalite par les fouilles anciennes, presentait deux lambeaux archeologiques relativement riches, non superposes stratigraphiquement. Les chantiers ouverts dans ces deux abris contigus, au pied de la meme falaise, ont permis de constituer des collections suffisamment consequentes pour permettre une analyse typo-technologique fiable et une attribution culturelle reactualisee. Ainsi, l’une des series de l’abri Blanchard et celle de l’abri Castanet sont attribuables a un Aurignacien ancien, alors que la seconde serie de l’abri Blanchard correspond a un Aurignacien recent, ce qui ne pouvait etre affirme de facon certaine sur la base des anciennes collections.
Chiotti Laurent. Rectification : Les productions lamellaires dans l'Aurignacien de l'abri... more Chiotti Laurent. Rectification : Les productions lamellaires dans l'Aurignacien de l'abri Pataud, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne [Rectification de l'article publié dans Gallia Préhistoire, 45, 2003, p. 113-156]. In: Gallia préhistoire, tome 46, 2004. p. 251
Projectile technology is commonly viewed as a significant contributor to past human subsistence a... more Projectile technology is commonly viewed as a significant contributor to past human subsistence and, consequently, to our evolution. Due to the allegedly central role of projectile weapons in the food-getting strategies of Upper Palaeolithic people, typo-technological changes in the European lithic record have often been linked to supposed developments in hunting weaponry. Yet, relatively little reliable functional data is currently available that would aid the detailed reconstruction of past weapon designs. In this paper, we take a use-wear approach to the backed tool assemblages from the Recent and Final Gravettian layers (Levels 3 and 2) of Abri Pataud (Dordogne, France). Our use of strict projectile identification criteria relying on combinations of low and high magnification features and our critical view of the overlap between production and use-related fractures permitted us to confidently identify a large number of used armatures in both collections. By isolating lithic proj...
Lars Anderson∗1, Nicolas Teyssandier∗1, Jean-Guillaume Bordes, Laurent Chiotti, Damien Flas, Alex... more Lars Anderson∗1, Nicolas Teyssandier∗1, Jean-Guillaume Bordes, Laurent Chiotti, Damien Flas, Alexandre Michel, Christian Normand, Marie-Cécile Soulier, and Elise Tartar Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) – Université Toulouse 2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5608 – Maison de la Recherche, 5 allée Antonio Machado 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9, France PACEA (de la Préhistoire à l’Actuel : Culture, Environnement, Anthropologie) – Université de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France), CNRS : UMR5199, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – UMR 5199 PACEA Université de Bordeaux Bâtiment B8 Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire CS 50023 33615 PESSAC CEDEX, France Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) – Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, Ministère de l’écologie de l’Energie, du Développement durable et de l’Aménagement du territoire – abri Pataud 20 rue du Moyen-Âge 24620 Les Eyzies-de-Tayac...
ABSTRACT What is the status of the human remains from the Level 2 of the Abri Pataud? This is the... more ABSTRACT What is the status of the human remains from the Level 2 of the Abri Pataud? This is the question that a multidisciplinary team has tried to answer with a threefold approach: new excavations, detailed review of the collections and detailed historiographical analysis of the former excavations (HL Movius). The Level 2 of the Abri Pataud, which is a reference site for the French Upper Palaeolithic, is dated to -22 000 years. It is attributed to the final Gravettian. This book, through the contributions of 18 authors, presents the results gathered during the first five years of excavation and study (2005-2009) placing it in a the broader context of the final Gravettian in France. It brings new elements of interpretation concerning the human occupation and examines the original burial behavior observed in the Level 2.
Western Europe is often used as the basis from which to understand the Aurignacian of other regio... more Western Europe is often used as the basis from which to understand the Aurignacian of other regions. For some there is good inter-regional chronocultural agreement, whereas others see significant difference. One region frequently argued to differ is the Swabian Jura (southern Germany). In a recent contribution to this issue Bataille and Conard (2018) describe the Aurignacian assemblage from Layer IV of Hohle Fels. They convincingly outline important similarities with the Western European Late Aurignacian. However, they also argue that it is older than, and different from, the most comparable Western European assemblages, and therefore that it contradicts an Aurignacian chronocultural framework built on Western European evidence. Here we assess this claim, focusing on the sites used by Bataille and Conard in their comparison. Radiocarbon dates for Hohle Fels IV of 33–30,000 uncalbpare no older than dates for Western European Late Aurignacian assemblages. Most of the features of Hohle...
La reprise des fouilles dans deux abris aurignaciens du vallon des Roches (Sergeac, Dordogne, Fra... more La reprise des fouilles dans deux abris aurignaciens du vallon des Roches (Sergeac, Dordogne, France), les abris Castanet (2005-2012) et Blanchard (2011-2012), sous la direction de R. White a permis d’obtenir de nouvelles series fiables et de renouveler les connaissances et la reflexion sur l’Aurignacien de ces deux sites de reference. L’abri Castanet, fouille sur une surface de plusieurs metres carres a livre un niveau unique, directement sur le substrat rocheux. L’abri Blanchard, bien que vide en quasi-totalite par les fouilles anciennes, presentait deux lambeaux archeologiques relativement riches, non superposes stratigraphiquement. Les chantiers ouverts dans ces deux abris contigus, au pied de la meme falaise, ont permis de constituer des collections suffisamment consequentes pour permettre une analyse typo-technologique fiable et une attribution culturelle reactualisee. Ainsi, l’une des series de l’abri Blanchard et celle de l’abri Castanet sont attribuables a un Aurignacien ancien, alors que la seconde serie de l’abri Blanchard correspond a un Aurignacien recent, ce qui ne pouvait etre affirme de facon certaine sur la base des anciennes collections.
Chiotti Laurent. Rectification : Les productions lamellaires dans l'Aurignacien de l'abri... more Chiotti Laurent. Rectification : Les productions lamellaires dans l'Aurignacien de l'abri Pataud, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne [Rectification de l'article publié dans Gallia Préhistoire, 45, 2003, p. 113-156]. In: Gallia préhistoire, tome 46, 2004. p. 251
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