Cinquante années de recherches sur les débuts de l'Aurignacien en Europe occidentale

Djindjian, François

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“…When it was recognized that the Aurignacian represented the first European UP, the same Aurignacian was simultaneously in the Levant area [16-17], as exemplified when during a conference in London in 1969, Bordes employed the term “Aurignacian in its strict sense” for the assemblages from Ksar Akil’s levels IX and X of the 1937-38 excavations (Xc-Xia levels of the 1947-48 excavations) [13, 18]. If, in Europe, a component prior to this form of the Aurignacian was proposed in the 1960s [19-21], its many detractors questioned the very existence of such industries until the almost definitive abandonment of these ideas at the end of the 1970s [22]. This hypothesis did not gain momentum again until the turn of the 1990s [23-26].…”

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The Three Waves: Rethinking the Structure of the first Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia

Slimak

2022

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The Neronian is a lithic tradition recognized in the Middle Rhône Valley of Mediterranean France now directly linked to Homo sapiens and securely dated to 54,000 years ago (ka), pushing back the arrival of modern humans in Europe by 10 ka. This incursion of modern humans into Neandertal territory and the relationships evoked between the Neronian and the Levantine Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) question the validity of concepts that define the first H. sapiens migrations and the very nature of the first Upper Paleolithic in western Eurasia. Direct comparative analyses between lithic technology from Grotte Mandrin and East Mediterranean archeological sequences, especially Ksar Akil, suggest that the three key phases of the earliest Levantine Upper Paleolithic have very precise technical and chronological counterparts in Western Europe, recognized from the Rhône Valley to Franco-Cantabria. These trans-Mediterranean technical connections suggest three distinct waves of H. sapiens expansion into Europe between 55-42 ka. These elements support an original thesis on the origin, structure, and evolution of the first moments of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe tracing parallel archaeological changes in the East Mediterranean region and Europe.

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The Three Waves: Rethinking the Structure of the first Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia

Slimak

2022

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“…Au tournant des années 1960, la New Archaeology apporte un important renouvellement conceptuel concernant la nature scientifique et anthropologique de l'archéologie. Un premier jalon bibliographique revient à la publication du Method and Theory in American Archaeology de Gordon Willey (1913-2002) et Philip Phillips (1900-1994. Le déplacement opéré par ce livre-manifeste se résume ainsi : « Archaeology, in the service of anthropology, concerns itself necessarily with the nature and position of unique events in space and time but has for its ultimate purpose the discovery of regularities that are in a sense spaceless and timeless.…”

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L’innovation méthodologique, entre bifurcation personnelle et formation des disciplines

Plutniak¹

2017

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La référence de la version publiée est : Sébastien Plutniak 2017a, « L'innovation méthodologique, entre bifurcation personnelle et formation des disciplines : les entrées en archéologie de Georges Laplace et de Jean-Claude Gardin », Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines, 31 : Faire science, sous la dir. de Camila Orozco Espinel et Yann Renisio, p. 113-139.] Résumé Quelles raisons peuvent amener des chercheurs à plaider en faveur de l'introduction de méthodes jugées plus précises et systématiques mais se révélant aussi plus abstraites et contraignantes en pratique ? La question est examinée à partir des parcours de deux archéologues français, Georges Laplace et Jean-Claude Gardin. Dès les années 1950, ils se distinguent par leurs propositions méthodologiques fondées sur la formalisation ou le calcul. Elles restent toutefois relativement isolées au cours des décennies suivantes, alors même que des propositions similaires connaissent un succès en archéologie anglophone ou dans d'autres disciplines. Par une approche biographique on met en évidence les équivalences et les tensions établies entre les critères épistémiques et éthiques, biographiques et politiques qui caractérisent ces expériences, lesquelles apparaissent comme les formes les plus radicales d'une aspiration contemporaine à la modernisation et à la professionnalisation de l'archéologie.

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l’émergence du Paléolithique supérieur en Europe : mutations culturelles et rythmes d’évolution

Teyssandier¹

2007

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The notion of a ru p t u re dominates reflections on the emergence of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe. From this perspective, the Aurignacian is interpreted as the culture that would realize the systematization of numerous innovations and become the instrument of v i c t o ry of Modern Humans over Neandertal populations. In this way, the Aurignacian is perceived as the cultural entity whose diff e re n t constitutive elements -blade and bladelet production, systematization of organic tool production, personal ornaments, portable and parietal art -generically define the Upper Paleolithic and distinguish it from the Middle Paleolithic. Based on these technical and symbolic innovations, the Aurignacian is re p resented as a homogeneous and conquering pan-European culture whose origin and expansion are forcibly linked to the unique trajectory of modern humans. The formalization of explicit models associating the development of the Aurignacian with the emergence of modern humans in Europe has thus gradually blurred the variability of this techno-complex, leaving only a skeletal image composed of carinated end-scrapers, Aurignacian blades and split-based points. Our objective is not to minimize the magnitude of changes that occurred with the emergence of the Aurignacian, but rather to present elements in support of the hypothesis that these changes were the result of an evolutionnary process whose diff e rent stages remain to be defined. To put this discussion into context, we shall first review current definitions of the early stages of the European Aurignacian. The beginnings of the Aurignacian : multiple technical and cultural expressions and/or chronological filiation?Several manifestations of the Aurignacian were already defined many years ago. Among the most significant and clearly expressed in the archaeological re c o rd are the Protoaurignacian and the Early Aurignacian.

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Cinquante années de recherches sur les débuts de l'Aurignacien en Europe occidentale

Cited by 3 publications

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The Three Waves: Rethinking the Structure of the first Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia

The Three Waves: Rethinking the Structure of the first Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia

L’innovation méthodologique, entre bifurcation personnelle et formation des disciplines

l’émergence du Paléolithique supérieur en Europe : mutations culturelles et rythmes d’évolution

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