Le gisement paléolithique moyen de Seclin (Nord)

Tuffreau, Alain; Révillion, Stéphane; Sommé, Jean; Vliët-Lanoé, Brigitte van

doi:10.3406/bspf.1994.9702

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“…They are characterized by a developed blade technology, with lames à crêtes and core tablets. The earliest traces of this technology are found at Seclin (northern France), where they have TL ages of approximately 80-100 ka [47]. Other sites with this kind of typical blade technology are Bettencourt and Fresnoy-en-Val, likewise dating to MIS 5 [25].…”

Section: The Archaeological Evidence For Population Movementsmentioning

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Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? On the character of Neandertal occupation of northern environments

Hublin

Roebroeks

2009

Comptes Rendus Palevol

168

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In the course of the last 500,000 years, the Neandertal lineage was the first human group to extensively colonize the middle latitudes of western Eurasia up to 55• N. Although Neandertals were able to adapt to a variety of environments, their ability to cope with extreme glacial environments seems to have been very limited. Depending on the climatic cycles, their presence in the northern environments was essentially discontinuous. The periodical abandonment of some areas is generally interpreted as resulting in a movement of northern populations into southern refuges and a subsequent recolonisation of the northern regions. Here, we argue that the current palaeo-ecological, archaeological and palaeogenetic evidence supports a model of local extinctions rather than a habitat tracking model. RésuméFlux et reflux ou extinctions régionales ? Sur la nature du peuplement néandertalien dans les environnements septentrionaux. Au cours des derniers 500 000 ans, la lignée néandertalienne représente le premier groupe humain à coloniser de façon significative les moyennes latitudes d'Eurasie occidentale jusqu'à 55• N. Bien que les néandertaliens se soient adaptés à des environnements variés, leur capacité à survivre dans des environnements glaciaires extrêmes semblent avoir été très limitée. Au gré des cycles climatiques, leur occupation des zones septentrionales fut essentiellement discontinue. Ces abandons périodiques de territoires sont généralement interprétés comme un mouvement de populations vers des zones refuges méridionales, suivi par une recolonisation des zones septentrionales. En réalité, les données paléo-écologiques, archéologiques et paléogénétiques plaident en faveur d'un modèle d'extinctions locales, plutôt qu'en faveur d'un modèle de suivi des déplacements du biotope.

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Section: The Archaeological Evidence For Population Movementsmentioning

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Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? On the character of Neandertal occupation of northern environments

Hublin

Roebroeks

2009

Comptes Rendus Palevol

168

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“…Northern Europe is especially rich in early blade industries, and literally dozens of Middle Paleolithic assemblages with a strong, even predominant, blade component are known from Germany (Conard 1990), northern France (Meignen 1994;Revillion 1995;Revillion and Tuffreau 1994), and Belgium (Otte 1994). A variety of methods was employed in blade production, ranging from uni-and bidirectional recurrent Levallois at Biache-Saint-Vaast (Tuffreau and Somme 1988) to more classic, UpperPaleolithic-like methods involving prismatic cores (Otte 1994;R6villion 1995;Tuffreau et al 1994) ( Figure 6). It is noteworthy that many of the laminar Mousterian industries date to the late assemblages in Europe (1996:393; see also Harrold 1989:691).…”

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The Big Deal about Blades: Laminar Technologies and Human Evolution

Bar‐Yosef

Kuhn

1999

American Anthropologist

332

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Despite the rapid expansion of archaeological knowledge of the Paleolithic over the past several decades, some generalized interpretive frameworks inherited from previous generations of researchers are remarkably tenacious. One of the most persistent of these is the assumed correlation between blade technologies, Upper Paleolithic industries, and anatomically (and behaviorally) modern humans. In this paper, we review some of the evidence for the production of early blade technologies in Eurasia and Africa dating to the late Lower and the Middle Paleolithic. The basic techniques for blade production appeared thousands of years before the Upper Paleolithic, and there is no justification for linking blades per se to any particular aspect of hominid anatomy or to any major change in the behavioral capacities of hominids. It is true that blades came to dominate the archaeological records of western Eurasia and Africa after 40,000 years ago, perhaps as a consequence of increasing reliance on complex composite tools during the Upper Paleolithic. At the same time, evidence from other regions of the world demonstrates that evolutionary trends in Pleistocene Eurasia were historically contingent and not universal. [Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, blade technology, human evolution, hominid behavior and capacities]

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“…In north‐west Europe the sites of Gouzeaucourt, Le Pucheuil, Gentelles and Oisiers à Bapaume are found in dolines (Tuffreau and Bouchet, ; Ropars et al ., ; Tuffreau et al ., ; Koehler, ). Other sites are in alluvial situations, such as Maastricht‐Belvedere, Biache and Salouel or valley edge as at Therdonne (Roebroeks, ; Tuffreau and Sommé, ; Ameloot‐van der Heijden et al ., ; Locht et al ., ). In central and southern France a wider range of locations can be identified, including caves (Jaubert et al ., ; Farizy et al ., ; Brugal et al ., ; Fernandes et al ., ; Moncel et al ., ).…”

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Frontiers and route‐ways from Europe: the Early Middle Palaeolithic of Britain

Ashton

Harris

Lewis

2018

J Quaternary Science

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Britain has a rich and well‐documented earlier Palaeolithic record, which provides a unique resource to investigate population dynamics and the cultural and geographical links with north‐west Europe during the Middle Pleistocene. This paper examines a newly enhanced dataset for the distribution of finds locations and their geological context. Using artefact types as proxies for different populations it contrasts the Lower Palaeolithic and Early Middle Palaeolithic records. New methods are devised to mitigate for the clear bias towards handaxes in collection history. Taking account of this bias, the results suggest differences in distribution between Lower Palaeolithic and Early Middle Palaeolithic populations, with the latter more heavily concentrated in the lower reaches of large southern and eastern rivers. Drawing on recent studies on the palaeogeography of the Channel and southern North Sea Basin, the paper suggests that this restricted distribution reflects short‐lived occupation by small groups of early Neanderthals in late MIS 8, who eventually became locally extinct because of isolation caused by rising sea levels in the first warm sub‐stage of MIS 7.

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Le gisement paléolithique moyen de Seclin (Nord)

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Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? On the character of Neandertal occupation of northern environments

Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? On the character of Neandertal occupation of northern environments

The Big Deal about Blades: Laminar Technologies and Human Evolution

Frontiers and route‐ways from Europe: the Early Middle Palaeolithic of Britain

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