Biface’s status before, during and after ...
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Biface’s status before, during and after MIS 11 in Northern France
Author(s) :
Lamotte, Agnes [Auteur]
Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 [HALMA]
Monnet, Claude [Auteur]
Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 [Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)]
Hutchence, Laurence [Auteur]
Hérisson, David [Auteur]
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS]
Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité [ArScAn]
Anthropologie des techniques, des espaces et des territoires au Pliocène et au Pléistocène [AnTET]

Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 [HALMA]
Monnet, Claude [Auteur]

Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 [Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)]
Hutchence, Laurence [Auteur]
Hérisson, David [Auteur]
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS]
Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité [ArScAn]
Anthropologie des techniques, des espaces et des territoires au Pliocène et au Pléistocène [AnTET]
Conference title :
Workshop: NANDROOTS in context
City :
Paris
Country :
France
Start date of the conference :
2024-02-06
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Archéologie et Préhistoire
English abstract : [en]
During the Middle and Upper Pleistocene, northern France, as part of the great plains of northern Europe, was characterised by discontinuous human settlements driven by a succession of glacial and interglacial cycles. In ...
Show more >During the Middle and Upper Pleistocene, northern France, as part of the great plains of northern Europe, was characterised by discontinuous human settlements driven by a succession of glacial and interglacial cycles. In this part of Europe and among the equipment of nomadic hunter-gatherers, the biface is an emblematic tool in the lithic industries. Before, during and after the 11 isotope stage, bifaces were multi-functional tools, until they became rare and then disappeared in favour of other tools such as scrapers, Levallois points and Mousterian points. Alongside the technical performance and persistence of these tools, other innovations have emerged, changing their status from a tool in its own right to a support for other tools and a mixed tool/nucleus matrix. More specifically, there are also differences in terms of size, processing and morphology. Unlike other neighbouring geographical entities such as the United Kingdom, where in this time sequence (MIS 11, before, after) the assemblages are with or without a biface, there our tool is always present. The time has therefore come for a large-scale regional investigation of the biface in all its states.Show less >
Show more >During the Middle and Upper Pleistocene, northern France, as part of the great plains of northern Europe, was characterised by discontinuous human settlements driven by a succession of glacial and interglacial cycles. In this part of Europe and among the equipment of nomadic hunter-gatherers, the biface is an emblematic tool in the lithic industries. Before, during and after the 11 isotope stage, bifaces were multi-functional tools, until they became rare and then disappeared in favour of other tools such as scrapers, Levallois points and Mousterian points. Alongside the technical performance and persistence of these tools, other innovations have emerged, changing their status from a tool in its own right to a support for other tools and a mixed tool/nucleus matrix. More specifically, there are also differences in terms of size, processing and morphology. Unlike other neighbouring geographical entities such as the United Kingdom, where in this time sequence (MIS 11, before, after) the assemblages are with or without a biface, there our tool is always present. The time has therefore come for a large-scale regional investigation of the biface in all its states.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
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Submission date :
2025-01-22T19:55:48Z