Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Médoc peninsula (SW France): insights from the sedimentological study of the “Lède du Gurp” archaeological site

Faye, Simon; Eynaud, Frédérique; Bosq, Mathieu; Lambert, Clément; Verdin, Florence; Véquaud, Pierre; Lodyga, Ophélie; Dériennic, Hervé; Lebleu, Pascal; Bujan, Stéphane; Billy, Isabelle; Martin, Bernard; Roussot-Larroque, Julia

doi:10.4000/quaternaire.11164

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“…This explains in part why there were no Early or Late Neolithic deposits explored during recent excavations, and also why there was very little Middle Neolithic discovered during earlier phases of excavation (Frugier 1979;1983;Roussot-Larroque 1984;1989;. Secondly, while LDG is, today, a coastal site, the coast was located several hundred metres further during the Neolithic, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions point towards a marsh land type environment (Faye et al 2019;Marambat & Roussot-Larroque 1989;Verdin et al 2018). Thirdly, Neolithic activities in the area may have been dependant on the marine and wetland resources that were locally available.…”

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Lithic economy in South Western France during the Neolithic: A case study from a coastal site - La Lède du Gurp (Aquitaine)

Solanas

2021

JLS

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The prehistory of South-western France is known worldwide for its rich record of Palaeolithic sites, especially from the Dordogne region. However, while research on the Palaeolithic is extremely prolific, the Neolithic was at the same time relegated to the background. Since the beginning of the discipline, few researchers worked on the Neolithic from SW France. Besides, they focused on ceramic typological analyses to describe cultural groups, rarely considered lithic tools and armatures, and never performed any techno-economical study of lithic productions. For over thirty years, rescue archaeology excavations revealed a large presence of Neolithic sites for this period; nonetheless Neolithic research remains little developed in relation to its potential. As part of my PhD thesis, the aim will be to fill this gap by characterizing lithic productions through techno-economical analyses, in order to describe the cultural groups existing in Northern Aquitania during the 4th and the 3rd millennia. With the example of La Lède du Gurp, a littoral occupation site dated to the middle and recent Neolithic, I will try to highlight in this paper what the study of lithic industries can say about a cultural group at a local scale. The reconstitution of the operating chains and the statistical analysis of small assemblages of non-standardised lithic reduction, allowed us to highlight a similar low investment in lithic production between the Middle and the Recent Neolithic of La Lède du Gurp. Our approach has enabled us to observe that a low investment in lithic production may reflect the complexity of the Neolithic groups and the complementarity of lithic industry with other technical subsystems directly related with the group's natural environment, as may it be the case for salt production during Recent Neolithic at La Lède du Gurp.

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Lithic economy in South Western France during the Neolithic: A case study from a coastal site - La Lède du Gurp (Aquitaine)

Solanas

2021

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“…Applying different combinations of geomorphic analyses, geophysical surveying, sedimentary investigations, and geochronological approaches and identifying sea-level indicators have been used to reconstruct long-term coastal dynamics in numerous case studies. However, these concentrate on the midlatitudes, in particular along the sandy coasts of Australia (e.g., Short and Hesp, 1982; Oliver et al, 2015), North America (e.g., Mallinson et al, 2008; Shawler et al, 2021), and Europe (e.g., Faye et al 2019; Nielsen et al 2006). In contrast, the number of comprehensive and systematic studies using a combination of at least several of the abovementioned methods in Southeast (SE) Asia is still rather low (e.g., Hanebuth et al, 2011; Mallinson et al, 2014; Brill et al, 2015; Gouramanis et al, 2020; Kongsen et al, 2022).…”

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Late Holocene coastal dynamics south of the Chanthaburi estuary, eastern Gulf of Thailand

Ballian,

Chawchai,

Miocic

et al. 2023

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Beach ridges are depositional features that allow reconstruction of past sea-level variations, sediment dynamics, and storm activity. However, there are still very few systematic studies focusing on beach ridges available from the Gulf of Thailand. Along the east coast, satellite images provide evidence of beach ridges in the Chanthaburi Province, extending as far as 6 km inland, oriented parallel to the current coastline. These can be divided into a set of landward ridges (5.3–6.0 km inland) and seaward ridges (0.4–1.8 km inland) that are separated by an arm of the Chanthaburi estuary. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of 26 sand samples from 12 pits of ridge profiles suggests that the landward set of beach ridges formed ca. 3500 yr ago, while the seaward set of ridges formed between ca. 2100–1200 years ago, which also includes the modern active beach. It appears that the landward set of beach ridges developed during a period of relatively stable sea level followed by a rapid regression presently occupied by the arm of the Chanthaburi estuary. The seaward set of beach ridges apparently reflects a millennium of slowly retreating coastline until the modern beach ridge formed.

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Holocene climate dynamics on the European scale: Insights from a coastal archaeological record from the temperate Bay of Biscay (SW France)

Eynaud

Verdin²,

Mary

et al. 2022

Quaternary International

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Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Médoc peninsula (SW France): insights from the sedimentological study of the “Lède du Gurp” archaeological site

Cited by 8 publications

References 53 publications

Lithic economy in South Western France during the Neolithic: A case study from a coastal site - La Lède du Gurp (Aquitaine)

Lithic economy in South Western France during the Neolithic: A case study from a coastal site - La Lède du Gurp (Aquitaine)

Late Holocene coastal dynamics south of the Chanthaburi estuary, eastern Gulf of Thailand

Holocene climate dynamics on the European scale: Insights from a coastal archaeological record from the temperate Bay of Biscay (SW France)

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