Variabilité de l’Acheuléen de plein air entre Rhône et Loire (France) |
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Institution: | 1. UMR 7194, département de Préhistoire du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 1, rue René-Panhard, 75013 Paris, France;2. Ferrare Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Dipartimento Studi Umanistici, Via Savonarola, 9, 44121 Ferrara, Italie;3. Le Bas-de-Rhins, 42120 Parigny, France |
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Abstract: | The lithic assemblages of five open-air sites offer the opportunity to observe and compare Final Acheulean series located in the Loire department (South-East France). The sites were probably multi-activity places including large tools and flakes, according to the strategies used by humans. Three main categories of large bifacial tools mainly made of flint can be described, with a triangular or oval shape and with a transversal cutting edge. The ratio and intensity of flaking oppose the series. The Levallois flaking is always present and associated to various other types of methods. The sites, located on plateaus on the two banks of a small valley, suggest human circulating between the Saône-Rhône corridor and the interior basins of the Massif Central Mountains. The Rhodanian corridor yielded little evidence of Acheulean open-air settlements while in the Centre of France, they are numerous. These sites prove that systematic prospecting in this area will permit in future to complete the map of the Acheulean occupations in south-east France and discuss about the variability. |
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Keywords: | France Loire Acheulian Open-air sites Lithic assemblage |
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