TY - JOUR
T1 - Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic site formation processes at the Bordes-Fitte rockshelter (Central France)
AU - Aubry, Thierry
AU - Dimuccio, Luca Antonio
AU - Buylaert, Jan-Pieter
AU - Liard, Morgane
AU - Murray, Andrew
AU - Thomsen, Kristina Jørkov
AU - Walter, Bertrand
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Transformation in technological patterns associated with the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition
between 50 and 40 ka in Western Europe and their relationship with the Neanderthal and Anatomically
Modern Human populations and behaviors are issues that continue to stimulate heated debate. In this
article we use the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic archaeo-stratigraphic record from the Bordes-Fitte
rockshelter (les Roches d'Abilly site, Central France), a Bayesian analysis of the ages obtained by accelerator
mass spectrometry radiocarbon on ultrafiltered collagen and by luminescence on quartz and
feldspar grains, to establish a timeline for material culture and sedimentary dynamic changes during the
Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition. Technology, refitting studies and taphonomy of lithic artifacts
recovered in the geoarchaeological field units D1 and D2 permit to characterize 3 reduction strategies
(Levallois, Discoidal and Chatelperronian blade) that took place between the cold Heinrich events 5 and
4. We discuss the implications of the results to characterize the end of the Middle Palaeolithic, and for
distinguishing anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic factors in Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic assemblage's
variability.
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - Transformation in technological patterns associated with the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition
between 50 and 40 ka in Western Europe and their relationship with the Neanderthal and Anatomically
Modern Human populations and behaviors are issues that continue to stimulate heated debate. In this
article we use the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic archaeo-stratigraphic record from the Bordes-Fitte
rockshelter (les Roches d'Abilly site, Central France), a Bayesian analysis of the ages obtained by accelerator
mass spectrometry radiocarbon on ultrafiltered collagen and by luminescence on quartz and
feldspar grains, to establish a timeline for material culture and sedimentary dynamic changes during the
Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition. Technology, refitting studies and taphonomy of lithic artifacts
recovered in the geoarchaeological field units D1 and D2 permit to characterize 3 reduction strategies
(Levallois, Discoidal and Chatelperronian blade) that took place between the cold Heinrich events 5 and
4. We discuss the implications of the results to characterize the end of the Middle Palaeolithic, and for
distinguishing anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic factors in Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic assemblage's
variability.
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW - Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition
KW - Site formation processes
KW - Lithic technology
KW - Luminescence and radiocarbon dating
U2 - 10.1016/j.jas.2014.09.013
DO - 10.1016/j.jas.2014.09.013
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0305-4403
VL - 52
SP - 436
EP - 457
JO - Journal of Archaeological Science
JF - Journal of Archaeological Science
ER -