Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum

L’application des méthodes de modélisation de niches écologiques aux données archéologiques afin d’examiner les relations culture-environnement et les trajectoires culturelles

“…Over the past decade, a number of studies (Banks et al, 2009(Banks et al, , 2011(Banks et al, , 2013 have detailed an approach, termed Eco-Cultural Niche Modeling (ECNM), that can be used to explore the relationships between archaeological cultures and their paleoenvironments, as well as examine them across periods of climate change. ECNM integrates archaeological, chronological, and paleoclimatic data, via predictive algorithms developed within the ecological and biodiversity sciences, thereby providing a means to estimate the ecological conditions exploited by archaeological populations and evaluate the potential variability of these niches through time.…”

Across Space and Time

“…Being distinct from artefacts occurring in the earlier (Gravettian) and subsequent (Badegoulian, Magdalenian) technocomplexes, Solutrean points were used as index fossils to define and internally subdivide the cultural succession of the Solutrean (Smith 1966). Spatially and temporally restricted occurrences of several Solutrean point types are recorded during the Upper Solutrean (Banks 2009;Jordá Cerdá 1955;Soler 1986;Straus 1983;Zilhao 1997 476 distinguished because of different technological strategies applied during production. In the following case studies, we concentrate on these specific types.…”

Solutrenses Del Sur De Iberia en Transición

“…Fue un tecnocomplejo breve, pero la gran visibilidad de sus proyectiles de piedra y su posición central lo han convertido en un punto de inflexión en la evolución del Paleolítico superior (Jordá 1955a;Smith 1966;Fullola Pericot 1979;Rasilla 1994;Straus 1990;Zilhão 1997;Tiffagom 2006a). Su variabilidad regional ha sido interpretada en términos paleoetnológicos, relacionando las geografías solutrenses con dinámicas que entrelazan cambios ecológicos, ciclos demográficos y redes territoriales (Straus et al 2000;Aubry et al, 2004;Gamble et al 2004;Tiffagom et al 2007;Banks et al 2009;Schmidt et al 2012).…”