International audienceWarluis Mesolithic sites were discovered during rescue archaeological excavations in a quarry spread over 40 hectares, located in the Therain alluvial plain (Northern France). Several palaeochannels of Lateglacial and Holocene age are present. The Lateglacial sequence contains organic and silty deposits. Holocene infillings are mainly peaty, except one tufaceous channel. Some 30 concentrations of lithic artefacts and faunal remains have been handdigged over 2 400 m². The most frequent sedimentary sequence is composed of (from bottom to top): weichselian gravel, white silty sands, organic sandy silts, peat, clayey silts. Organic sandy silts are divided into a basal greyish bed and an upper brown horizon. Stratigraphical...