Lithic territories during the Late Middle Palaeolithic in the central and western Pyrenees: New data from the Noisetier (Hautes-Pyrénées, France), Gatzarria (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France) and Abauntz (Navarre, Spain) caves
| Autor: | Marianne Deschamps, Camille Mangier, Vincent Mourre, Théo Minet |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology geography 060101 anthropology geography.geographical_feature_category Excavation 06 humanities and the arts 15. Life on land Highly selective 01 natural sciences Archaeology [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences Petrography Cave Peninsula 0601 history and archaeology Alluvium Mountain range ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Elsevier, 2021 Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Elsevier, 2021, 36, pp.102713. ⟨10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102713⟩ |
| ISSN: | 2352-409X |
| Popis: | Over the past few years, research on the Late Middle Palaeolithic in the Pyrenees has been reinvigorated by excavations carried out at the Noisetier Cave (Frechet-Aure, Hautes-Pyrenees, France). Lithic assemblages produced using local raw materials were documented at this site, with some extra-local imported flints completing the picture. Samples gathered from various alluvial formations on the mountainside were compared with archaeological materials, allowing us to conclude that toolmakers were highly selective in their choice of local raw materials, ultimately reflecting their intimate knowledge of locally available resources. Petrographic analysis of flints allowed us to determine that these Middle Palaeolithic populations were familiar with and/or frequented a large territory. Further west in the Pyrenean mountain range, studies are currently underway at Gatzarria Cave (Ossas-Suhare, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France), which allow us to envisage novel trans-Pyrenean travel routes, while research on the surroundings of Abauntz Cave (Arraitz-Orkin, Navarre, Spain) has contributed to our knowledge of the exploitable flint sources in the northern Iberian Peninsula. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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