La Micoque. Les Fouilles récentes. — Leur signification

Peyrony, Denis

doi:10.3406/bspf.1938.12316

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“…We are following the description of Veil et al (1994) in using the term Keilmessergruppen ("Micoquian" sensu Bosinski, Günther, Toepfer, Valoch), that was first used by Mania (1990: 144-148) and preferred by Veil et al (1994) or Jöris (2001;. Bosinski (1967) included in his definition of the central European bifacial assemblages clearly the reference to La Micoque layer N(6) of Peyrony's (1938) excavation in 1929. He later adopted the term Keilmessergruppen (Los grupos Keilmesser) in an overview of the Middle Palaeolithic of central Europe (Bosinski 2001).…”

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A Late Middle Palaeolithic assemblage containing Levallois and bifacial objects from Saône-et-Loire, France: GH 3 at Grotte de la Verpillière II à Germolles

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2016

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The site of Grotte de la Verpillière II, a rock shelter and corresponding cave tunnel, is situated in a cliff face of an Oxfordian massive, around 10 km West of Chalon-sur-Saône in Eastern France. The excavation at this site has recovered Middle Palaeolithic assemblages in three stratified sedimentological units. The richest of these assemblages derives from Geological Horizon (GH) 3 and is discussed here. It is preliminarily attributed to a Late Middle Palaeolithic context of OIS 3 to 4 using radiometric-dating techniques.The assemblage combines Levallois reduction, bifacial objects and diverse 'opportunistic' reduction strategies. The Levallois reduction shows a high level of raw-material economy in the use of raw pieces and blanks whose morphology is close to the shape of desired configured cores. Other reduction strategies show a wider range of approaches to blank production. Bifacial objects include but are not limited to Keilmesser with tranchet blows. The condition of objects from GH 3 range from unused raw pieces, tested raw pieces, configured and exhausted cores, correction and central flakes, as well as some heated objects, frost shards, and debris. The majority of raw materials derive from sources nearby, but were clearly transported to the site. Only some pieces show evidence for transport of up to 100 km from source to site. The presence of specific reduction strategies on bifacial objects and the existence of tranchet-blow modification provide support for the attribution of the assemblage to the Keilmessergruppen assemblages from Central Europe.

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“…The term "Micoquian" established by Hauser (1916) for all assemblages at La Micoque hundred years ago, was later reduced by Breuil (1932a) and only used for layer N(6) of Peyrony's excavation from 1929 (Peyrony 1938).…”

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A Late Middle Palaeolithic assemblage containing Levallois and bifacial objects from Saône-et-Loire, France: GH 3 at Grotte de la Verpillière II à Germolles

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“…Peyrony's (1938) earlier tool lists from these levels showed that they contained numerous thick scrapers with abrupt, alternate retouch, "utilised pieces, denticulates, notches, and borers. To this, Bordes and Bourgon (1951) added that the flakes were small and poorly struck, having predominantly plain platforms and prominent bulbs of percussion.…”

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A review of the chronology of the European Middle Pleistocene hominid record

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Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Over the last seventy years, European hominid fossils and associated archaeological remains have been dated by reference to the classical, fourfold glacialhnterglacial subdivision of the Pleistocene. This method seemed relatively straightforward and precise especially as new discoveries were fitted into the schemes, apparently strengthening the correlations and increasing their validity. However, recent studies of deep-sea cores and terrestrial deposits, combined with new developments in relative and absolute dating, have shown that the fourfold schemes are oversimplified. This paper critically reviews some of the dating evidence from sites with hominid remains generally considered as Middle Pleistocene (ca. 700,000-128,000 BP). The hominid and archaeological remains are shown to require independent dating and a cautious approach is adopted towards the use of mammalian faunal remains as chronological indicators. The techniques and results of absolute dating are discussed with reference to present problems and future prospects. At a time of transition from an old framework to new correlations, it is inevitable that some conclusions seem tentative and others rather negative. Nevertheless, the Middle Pleistocene in Europe is more fully understood and better dated than the equivalent period in other parts of the world.Prior to the discoveries made in East Africa since 1959 (Oakley et al., 1977), most palaeoanthropologists concentrated their studies and built their phylogenies around European fossils that consequently assumed great, and perhaps undue significance in studies of human evolution. For many years, these fossils and archaeological remains were dated directly from the alternating series of lithostratigraphic stages supposedly representing cold and warm periods of the fourfold glaciaYinterglacia1 schemes designated in the Alps, northern Europe, or Britain (Table 1)) or indirectly from the biostratigraphic effects of such climatic changes. These schemes seemed to provide a relatively straightforward and secure chronological framework and continued to be used in spite of the recognition of shortcomings, such as gaps in terrestrial sequences

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“…Peyrony succeeded Hauser, excavating between 1929 and1932, during which time he discovered four additional archaeological levels. He defined 14 stratigraphical levels, gave their description, and offered a stratigraphical and chronological framework which has been used by later workers (Peyrony, 1938). Texier & Bertran (1993) correlated these deposits to marine isotope stages 12 and 10.…”

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