“…Indeed, although the neolithisation of Mediterranean France is now well-investigated, the neolithisation processes in its hinterland remains less comprehensible. Traditionally, different terms were used to designate the Neolithic cultures of the 4th millennium in Southwestern France: Tardenoisian III, Roucadourian, Para-Mediterranean Early Neolithic, Pericardial (see Bailloud 1970, Roussot-Larroque 1977, Guilaine 1982, Arnal 1987. These designations depended on the scholars and were associated with underlying diverging interpretations of the phenomenon, ranging from the hypothesis of an autochthonous process of neolithization to that of peripheral facies of the Early Mediterranean Neolithic.…”