Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician points were used primarily as hunting weapons: morphological and functional analysis of points from Nietoperzowa Cave, southern Poland

Wiśniewski, Andrzej; Pyżewicz, Katarzyna; Serwatka, Kamil; Kot, Małgorzata; Kerneder-Gubała, Katarzyna; Grużdź, Witold

doi:10.1007/s12520-022-01552-z

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“…Bladelet production has also been documented at some LRJ sites (Demidenko and Škrdla, 2023), and some cores (both blade and bladelet) show intriguing structural similarities to Châtelperronian counterparts (see for example Figure 5 in Flas, 2011). In this comparison, however, typological differences are immediately evidentwith the LRJ typified by the production of large points characterized by flat, invasive retouch on one or both surfaces (Flas, 2011;Wiśniewski et al, 2022;Demidenko and Škrdla, 2023). It is important to highlight that numerous distinctive/diagnostic technological and typological categories exist within the Châtelperronian beyond the eponymous arch-backed point (for example, technical products, percussion techniques, and distinctive end-scrapers), which make a direct evaluation of typo-technological similarity between this industry and any potential analogues well within the realm of viability.…”

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Prospects and pitfalls of an intrusive model for the Châtelperronian stone tool industry during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France and northern Spain

Djakovic

Soressi

Roussel

2023

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The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France and northern Spain reflects the transition from Neandertals to Homo sapiens and the emergence of novel cultural entities and standardised laminar technologies between ~50 and 40 thousand years ago. The Chatelperronian stone tool industry sits at the centre of this period, and is commonly considered as representing a geographically isolated archaeological entity produced by late Neandertals. However, debate as to the makers and origin of this industry has long persisted. Fuel has recently been thrown onto this discussion through the formulation of a hypothesis in which the Chatelperronian directly originates from the Northern Early Ahmarian industry of the Levant. This model proposes that the Chatelperronian is in fact indicative of a direct migration of a population of Homo sapiens from the Levant to France around 44-40 thousand years ago, potentially via the crossing (or series of crossings) of the Mediterranean Sea. Such a scenario would have significant implications for how we interpret this key portion of recent human evolutionary history. In this paper, we highlight some of the prospects and pitfalls of an intrusive origin model for the emergence of the Chatelperronian industry in western Europe taking into account technological, chronological, geographic, and stratigraphic perspectives. To frame this discussion, we review the state of understanding on the Chatelperronian and provide a detailed, synthetic review of Chatelperronian lithic technology. Our review reinforces the distinctive and fully Upper Palaeolithic character of this industry, and we subsequently suggest a few avenues of research which, in our opinion, may help shed progressively clearer light on the demographic and cultural processes operating during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in western Europe.

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confidence: 91%

Prospects and pitfalls of an intrusive model for the Châtelperronian stone tool industry during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France and northern Spain

Djakovic

Soressi

Roussel

2023

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The Late and Final Middle Palaeolithic of Central Europe and Its Contributions to the Formation of the Regional Upper Palaeolithic: a Review and a Synthesis

2022

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For decades, the relationship of pre-modern hominins to anatomically modern humans (AMH) and the transition from mode 3 to mode 4 industries remain topics of ongoing scientific debate. Over the last 20 years, different disciplines have added new data and much detail to these questions, highlighting the demographic and social and cultural complexity underlaying these major changes or turnovers in human evolution. As with most other regions outside Africa, archaeologists faced long-lasting discussions whether or not the central European archaeological record is to be understood as a regional transition from the Middle Palaeolithic (MP) to the Upper Palaeolithic (UP) or if it is characterised by the replacement of Neanderthal MP techno-complexes by industries of overall UP character imported by modern humans. These debates have been re-fuelled by the discoveries of new sites, of new hominin fossil remains and by aDNA studies pinpointing towards the arrival of AMH in Europe several millennia earlier than previously thought (Slimak et al., Science Advances,8, eabj9496, 2022; Hajdinjak et al., Nature,592, 253-257, 2021; Prüfer et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution,5, 820–825, 2021). Together with new radiometric age-estimates and detailed archaeological site studies, these developments call to recapture the present knowledge of the Late (LMP) and Final Middle Palaeolithic (FMP) of central Europe, viewed from the perspective of lithic technology and typology, raw material exploitation and land-use strategies. We will review and characterise this record as it represents the demographic and cultural substrate that AMH had met and will discuss to which degree this substrate contributed to the formation of the central European UP.

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Us and Them: How to Reconcile Archaeological and Biological Data at the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Europe?

Teyssandier

2024

J Paleo Arch

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Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician points were used primarily as hunting weapons: morphological and functional analysis of points from Nietoperzowa Cave, southern Poland

Cited by 6 publications

References 69 publications

Prospects and pitfalls of an intrusive model for the Châtelperronian stone tool industry during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France and northern Spain

Prospects and pitfalls of an intrusive model for the Châtelperronian stone tool industry during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France and northern Spain

The Late and Final Middle Palaeolithic of Central Europe and Its Contributions to the Formation of the Regional Upper Palaeolithic: a Review and a Synthesis

Us and Them: How to Reconcile Archaeological and Biological Data at the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Europe?

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