“…On the other hand, technological studies of assemblages from the Aquitaine region (Cretin, 1996(Cretin, , 2000Cretin et al, 2007;Morala, 1993), the Paris Basin (Cretin and Le Licon, 1997), and the Massif Central (Bracco, 1992) have served to (a) confirm that a rupture exists between the lithic chaînes opératoires of the Upper Solutrean (Aubry et al, 2007;Renard, 2010) and the Badegoulian; (b) differentiate the Badegoulian from the Initial Magdalenian dated to ca. 17,500 14 C BP (Fourloubey, 1998;Langlais, 2007).…”