The Middle Gravettian is characterized in south-western Europe by the appearance and the development of new lithic tools: Noailles burins and Raysse burins.The Abri Pataud (Dordogne, France) delivered a significant archaeological sequence of the Upper Palaeolithic resulting from the excavations directed per Hallam L Movius between 1958 and 1964. Our study relates to lithic industries of Middle Gravettian (Noaillien of Nicholas David or Périgordien Vc of Denis Peyrony) and takes into account, for the first time, the whole of the lithic material: nucleus, products of workings and maintenance of nuclei, crude products of cutting up, retouched products of cutting up and falls of burins.The study of the raw materials made it possible to characte...