Un habitat de la fin du Mésolithique dans le Centre-Ouest de la France : L’Essart à Poitiers (Vienne)

The Neolithization Process in the Lower-Scheldt Basin (Belgium, mid-6th to mid-4th Millennium cal BC) from a Lithic Technological Perspective

“…Platform angles range from relatively sharp on the first core to orthogonal on the second. Especially this second core (Figure 8: 7), with its quadrangular volume is reminiscent of cores worked according to the "Essart A" method (Marchand & Michel, 2009), which seems to have been a widespread method in Northern France during the LM (Allard, 2017;Marchand, 2014). Although cores are scarce at Aven Ackers, a review of cores found at other LM sites in the Scheldt basin, i.e.…”

Clay combustion structures in early Mesolithic at Cova da Baleia (Mafra, Portugal): Approaches to their functionality

“…Although the Portuguese sites present poor preservation of archaeobotanical remains, in the Colombian site of San Jacinto 1, exhibiting structures very similar to those in Cova da Baleia, the main function of the ovens was associated with processing plant species (Stahl and Oyuela-Caycedo, 2007). In l'Essart, a French mesolithic habitat with a vast excavation (Marchand et al, 2007 were also identified intense signs of fire-related activities in a vast area. Due to the presence of structures 39 and intense combustion fire signals in lithic materials is proposed that Essart l'corresponds to a site with a specific function, not yet documented in the west of France (Marchand et al, 2008, p. 107), with functions related to the smoking of fish and game.…”

Éléments de réflexion sur les économies mésolithiques et néolithiques

“…La présence d'arêtes de poisson dans un contexte « éloigné » de leur lieu de récolte peut également être un marqueur de la conservation de ces ressources (Philibert, 2002). Sans avoir aucune certitude, on peut évoquer le site de l'Essart à Poitiers, en bordure de rivière, où de nombreux foyers liés à une industrie moyennement riche correspondant pour chacun des locus à une occupation « temporaire » (de 10 à 30 armatures suivant les locus) pourraient évoquer de telles pratiques (Marchand, 2009).…”