International audienceOrgnac 3 is dated from 350,000 to 280,000 years before present. It was excavated by J. Combier and his team. The lithic data show a Middle Palaeolithic industry which becomes more and more typical in the three most recent levels. The Levallois debitage, not present at the base of the human occupation, becomes the most important way of producing flakes in the last levels. The number of flakes from one core is more and more numerous. On one Levallois core, several methods are successively used to control the variety of the production. The raw material is flint which is collected around the site. Tools on flakes are the most frequent. Scrapers and points are first in number. Choppers and chopping-tools are usual in all th...
Rescue excavation in advance of road construction uncovered a small open air site with a well preser...
The small open-air site of Les Gastines in the Rance Valley lias yielded, through excavation and sur...
International audienceExcavated in 2000 within the framework of the preventive archaeology operation...
Orgnac 3 is dated from 350,000 to 280,000 years before present. It was excavated by J. Combier and h...
The Maras cave, Ardèche (France) yields Middle Palaeolithic assemblages. Material from the three upp...
International audienceIn 2015, a large rescue excavation to the north of Auxerre led to the discover...
National audienceThe site of Érd has been excavated in 1963 and 1964 by V. Gábori-Csánk. It has yiel...
International audienceThe stratigraphical complex preserved at the site of Menez–Dregan I (Brittany,...
Two early Middle Palaeolithic, open-air sites were recently excavated near Creysse, in the Dordogne ...
International audienceThe Maras cave, Ardèche (France) yields Middle Palaeolithic assemblages. Mater...
Variabilité et signification des productions lithiques au Paléolithique moyen ancien. L’exemple de t...
International audienceThe late Mousterian open-air site of Bout-des-Verges was the subject of large-...
Rescue excavation in advance of road construction uncovered a small open air site with a well preser...
The small open-air site of Les Gastines in the Rance Valley lias yielded, through excavation and sur...
International audienceExcavated in 2000 within the framework of the preventive archaeology operation...
Orgnac 3 is dated from 350,000 to 280,000 years before present. It was excavated by J. Combier and h...
The Maras cave, Ardèche (France) yields Middle Palaeolithic assemblages. Material from the three upp...
International audienceIn 2015, a large rescue excavation to the north of Auxerre led to the discover...
National audienceThe site of Érd has been excavated in 1963 and 1964 by V. Gábori-Csánk. It has yiel...
International audienceThe stratigraphical complex preserved at the site of Menez–Dregan I (Brittany,...
Two early Middle Palaeolithic, open-air sites were recently excavated near Creysse, in the Dordogne ...
International audienceThe Maras cave, Ardèche (France) yields Middle Palaeolithic assemblages. Mater...
Variabilité et signification des productions lithiques au Paléolithique moyen ancien. L’exemple de t...
International audienceThe late Mousterian open-air site of Bout-des-Verges was the subject of large-...
Rescue excavation in advance of road construction uncovered a small open air site with a well preser...
The small open-air site of Les Gastines in the Rance Valley lias yielded, through excavation and sur...
International audienceExcavated in 2000 within the framework of the preventive archaeology operation...