Taphonomy of the open air Aurignacian site of Combemenue at Brignac-la-Plaine (Corrèze, France)

Bertrán, Pascal; Lenoble, Arnaud; Lacrampe, François; Brenet, Michel; Cretin, Catherine; Milor, Frédéric

doi:10.4000/paleo.806

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“…It has been proposed that distributions of items at an archaeological site fall in three categories: concentration, uniform distribution, or random distribution [ 50 , 51 ]. The occurrences of the items in a grid or their spatial coordinates can be used to establish to which of these three cases the distribution most closely approximates [ 52 ].…”

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Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use

Geis,

d’Errico,

Jordan

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean yielded sub spherical gravels with a highly shiny appearance that have intrigued researchers since the 1930s. In this work, we analyze specimens from five sites, including the recently excavated Solutrean site of Landry, to establish whether their presence in archaeological layers and peculiar aspect are due to natural processes or human agency. We study the spatial distribution of gravels at Landry and submit archaeological gravels from the five sites, natural formations, Landry sediment sieving, and polishing experiments with a rotary tumbling machine to morphometric, colorimetric, microscopic, and textural analyses. Our results indicate the lustrous gravels found at the five sites result from deliberate selection and suggest their shiny appearance is the consequence of human agency, possibly resulting from prolonged contact with a soft material such as animal skin. Ethnographic accounts indicate that these gravels may have been used for magico-religious ritual purposes (charms, sorcery, divination etc.), in games, as elements of musical instruments, and as items serving other social and personal purposes. We argue that these objects reflect a cultural innovation emerged during the Gravettian and continued into the Solutrean.

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Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use

Geis,

d’Errico,

Jordan

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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“…It has been proposed that distributions of items at an archaeological site fall in three categories: concentration, uniform distribution, or random distribution (Bertran et al, 2005;Djindjian, 2017). The occurrences of the items in a grid or their spatial coordinates can be used to establish to which of these three cases the distribution most closely approximates (Djindjian, 1991).…”

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Multiproxy Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Lustrous Gravels

Geis¹,

d’Errico²,

Jordan

et al. 2022

SSRN Journal

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“…Afin de retrouver les éléments les plus fins, les sédiments ont été tamisés à l'eau avec des tamis de 5 mm et de 2 mm de maille. Cette étude se base sur le même système d'analyse que nous avons déjà utilisé précédemment sur d'autres sites : pour effectuer une approche taphonomique du gisement et de l'industrie lithique, nous nous sommes appuyés sur les travaux de Bertran et Lenoble (2002), Lenoble (2003), Lenoble et al (2003) et Bertran et al (2005Bertran et al ( , 2006 ; pour la définition de chaîne opératoire lithique, la détermination des phases allant de l'acquisition à l'abandon des objets, Geneste (1989) Il est nécessaire de noter que les implications et les réflexions qui peuvent être obtenues à la suite de ce travail sont conditionnées par la nature réduite de l'échantillon constitué. Ces réflexions pourraient varier par l'addition d'éléments complémentaires livrés lors de futures fouilles.…”

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El Sotillo (Malagón, Ciudad Real, Spain), a Pleistocene open-air archaeological site of the Lower-Middle Palaeolithic transition

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2021

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Ce travail présente le site d'« El Sotillo » au sein du cadre géologique et géomorphologique de la région du Pedanía del Sotillo, Malagón -Ciudad Real -Espagne, et la nature des processus de formation du dépôt, ainsi que les caractéristiques technologiques de l'industrie lithique collectée. Cette dernière peut être considérée comme relevant de la transition entre les ensembles lithiques du Paléolithique inférieur et ceux du Paléolithique moyen.

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Taphonomy of the open air Aurignacian site of Combemenue at Brignac-la-Plaine (Corrèze, France)

Abstract: site aurignacien de plein-air de Combemenue à Brignac-la-Plaine (Corrèze) : apport de la géochéologie et de l'étude de l'industrie lithique à la compréhension des processus taphonomiques »,

Cited by 11 publications

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Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use

Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use

Multiproxy Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Lustrous Gravels

El Sotillo (Malagón, Ciudad Real, Spain), a Pleistocene open-air archaeological site of the Lower-Middle Palaeolithic transition

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