La grotte périgordienne et aurignacienne du Fontenioux, commune de Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé (Vienne)

Pradel, Louis

doi:10.3406/bspf.1952.5084

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“…The diversity of core-shaped forms has been the subject of many works on typological classification (e.g. Pradel 1952;Perrot and Sonneville-Bordes 1953;Perrot and Sonneville-Bordes 1956;Pradel 1962;Demars 1990;Stefański 2013). Researchers dealing with the problem have pointed out items similar in shape to cores (mainly carinated cores) as well as characteristic bladelet negatives shaping those tools.…”

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A Technological and Functional Analysis of Carinates from Le Flageolet I, Dordogne, France

Hays¹,

Lucas²

2000

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Core-shaped forms are one of the most distinctive kinds of artefacts identified in Aurignacian assemblages.Classification of such pieces frequently causes difficulties, and the boundaries between certain types seem to be fluid and intuitive. The question whether to categorise those artefacts as tools or as cores is another unresolved issue. This leads to conflicting interpretations of morphologically and technologically identical lithics. The present paper investigates these topics, using the assemblage of core-shaped forms from the group of sites in Spadzista Street in Kraków as an example. The authors propose a standardised examination method, without dividing the artefacts into typological categories, tools or cores. Such an approach, combined with microwear analysis of the materials, confirms the hypothesis that the forms may have been used both as tools and as cores, and that their use was not always the same, but depended on the specific needs of their users/makers.

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A Technological and Functional Analysis of Carinates from Le Flageolet I, Dordogne, France

Hays¹,

Lucas²

2000

Journal of Field Archaeology

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“…Endscrapers were manufactured on blanks selected among large and elongated flakes (Bachellerie 2011;Baillet et al 2014;Roussel 2011). Large flakes equipped with a semi-circular scraper-head are considered diagnostic of this complex, as they have been documented at several sites under different names such as "circular," "discoid," "circular arc," or "large front" endscraper (see Arambourou and Jude 1964;Connet 2002;Delporte 1953;Leroi-Gourhan and Leroi-Gourhan 1964;Pelegrin 1995;Pradel 1959Pradel , 1961de Sonneville-Bordes 2002). On these objects, retouching shaped the front in continuity with the adjacent edges with a consistent degree of invasiveness (Roussel et al 2016).…”

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Scraping hide in the early Upper Paleolithic: Insights into the life and function of the Protoaurignacian endscrapers at Fumane Cave

Aleo

Duches

Falcucci

et al. 2021

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Endscrapers are specialized tools that are usually recovered in great quantities in every Upper Paleolithic site in Europe. Although they make their first ephemeral appearance in the Middle–late Middle Paleolithic transitional technocomplexes, endscrapers commonly appear in toolkits from initial and early Upper Paleolithic traditions onwards. Nevertheless, endscrapers and, in general, domestic tools have attracted relatively little attention in debates revolving around the significance of technological change, tool function, and tool specialization after the end of the Middle Paleolithic. With the aim to overcome this paucity of information, here, we present the results of a techno-functional study performed on the large endscraper assemblage recovered from the early and late Protoaurignacian layers at Fumane Cave in northeastern Italy. We analyzed these artifacts using technological, morpho-metrical, typological, and functional approaches. Despite the large morphological variability, use-wear traces reveal functional consistency and high levels of specialization for these tools. Almost all the use-wear traces we recorded developed from hide working with transverse motion. Moreover, we find no evidence that endscrapers were involved in the production of bone and antler tools during the late Protoaurignacian. Macroscopic and microscopic wear on the lateral edges of tools point to a considerable number of hafted endscrapers, which implies systematic time investment and planning depth. Comparison with the few endscrapers from transitional industries that have been analyzed highlights marked differences in the production, morphology, and use of these tools and reinforces our view of the Aurignacian as a complex not directly related with preceding European traditions.

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“…The Roches d'Abilly site is located in Central France, along the Creuse Valley (Fig. 1), on the southern limit of the Touraine region, not far from Les Cottés (Pradel, 1961;Soressi et al, 2010) and La Fontenioux (Pradel, 1952), two sites preserved in caves of the Poitoux-Charentes cluster of the Châtelperronian distribution area (Lévêque, 1987;1997;Pelegrin and Soressi, 2007;Bar-Yosef and Bordes, 2010). The Creuse Valley contains several Middle and Upper Palaeolithic occupation sequences conserved in caves, rockshelters, and open-air sites (Allain, 1976;Aubry et al, 2007).…”

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Stratigraphic and technological evidence from the middle palaeolithic-Châtelperronian-Aurignacian record at the Bordes-Fitte rockshelter (Roches d’Abilly site, Central France)

Aubry¹,

Dimuccio²,

Almeida³

et al. 2012

Journal of Human Evolution

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This paper presents a geoarchaeological study of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic (Châtelperronian, Aurignacian and Solutrean) occupations preserved at the Bordes-Fitte rockshelter in Central France. The lithostratigraphic sequence is composed of near-surface sedimentary facies with vertical and lateral variations, in a context dominated by run-off and gravitational sedimentary processes. Field description and micromorphological analysis permit us to reconstruct several episodes of sediment slope-wash and endokarst dynamics, with hiatuses and erosional phases. The archaeostratigraphic succession includes Châtelperronian artefacts, inter-stratified between Middle Palaeolithic and Aurignacian occupations. Systematic refitting and spatial analysis reveal that the Châtelperronian point production and flake blanks retouched into denticulates, all recovered in the same stratigraphic unit, result from distinct and successive occupations and are not a 'transitional' Middle to Upper Palaeolithic assemblage. The ages obtained by (14)C place the Châtelperronian occupation in the 41-48 ka cal BP (calibrated thousands of years before present) interval and are consistent with the quartz optically stimulated luminescence age of 39 ± 2 ka and feldspar infra-red stimulated luminescence age of 45 ± 2 ka of the sediments. The Bordes-Fitte rockshelter sequence represents an important contribution to the debate about the characterization and timing of the Châtelperronian, as well as its affinities to earlier and later industries.

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La grotte périgordienne et aurignacienne du Fontenioux, commune de Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé (Vienne)

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A Technological and Functional Analysis of Carinates from Le Flageolet I, Dordogne, France

A Technological and Functional Analysis of Carinates from Le Flageolet I, Dordogne, France

Scraping hide in the early Upper Paleolithic: Insights into the life and function of the Protoaurignacian endscrapers at Fumane Cave

Stratigraphic and technological evidence from the middle palaeolithic-Châtelperronian-Aurignacian record at the Bordes-Fitte rockshelter (Roches d’Abilly site, Central France)

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