Une concentration de vestiges caractéristiques du Beuronien à segments : le gisement de Warluis I (Oise)

Abstract

La fouille préventive du gisement de Warluis I, dans la vallée du Thérain (Oise), a permis d’isoler une concentration de vestiges du Beuronien à segments datés de la deuxième moitié du huitième millénaire avant notre ère. Les Préhistoriques se sont installés sur un sol sec boisé à proximité d’un cours d’eau. Ils ont exploité sur place une matière première siliceuse abondante, ont collecté des noisettes et ont pratiqué une prédation ciblée sur le sanglier, probablement une compagnie (laie et ses petits). Le faible nombre d’animaux, l’absence de certaines parties squelettiques, la pauvreté typologique de l’outillage ainsi que sa courte durée d’utilisation, plaident en faveur d’un séjour de durée limitée.

Formalized Reduction Sequences from the Site of Kerkhove, Belgium – New Perspectives on Early Mesolithic Flint Knapping

“…Perhaps such an intervention would simply be too wasteful in most cases considering the small size of the cores involved? Interestingly, this absence of rejuvenation by cresting was also noticed by Ducrocq et al (2014) based on the refits of the Warluis I site in the North of France.…”

“…Indeed, on the one hand, the results confirm the importance of some specific knapping procedures and show their implementation was widespread, e.g. the deliberate fragmentation of nodules into several cores in the initial stages of reduction (Ducrocq, 2013;Guilbert, 2010;Noens, 2013;Pirnay, 1981;Séara, 2014;Souffi, 2004) or the recycling of large flakes as cores (Conneller et al, 2018;Ducrocq, Bridault, Cayol, & Coutard, 2014;Ketterer, 1997;Marchand & Michel, 2009;Michel, 2009;Souffi, 2004). On the other hand, the information gained by the refits helps to clarify some aspects of Early Mesolithic flint knapping that have not always been fully understood or that remained hypothetical until now and allows to address them on a more objective basis.…”

“…When opposed platforms occur, they are mostly installed at the end of the knapping process (Séara, 2013;Séara et al, 2002). On the northern French sites of Hangest -Gravière II Nord (Ketterer, 1997) and Warluis I (Ducrocq et al, 2014), similar to Kerkhove, opposed platform cores are the most frequent, but they are nearly always worked in a successive way. At Star Carr (UK), opposed platform cores are said to show a clear hierarchy between the platforms (Conneller et al, 2018).…”

Abrupt cooling events during the Early Holocene and their potential impact on the environment and human behaviour along the southern North Sea basin (NW Europe)

“…Composition of mammal species (expressed in NISP) found on Early Mesolithic sites in different river valleys of northern France (data from Bignon‐Lau et al ., ; Coutard et al ., ; Ducrocq, ; Ducrocq et al ., , Ducrocq et al ., ; Leduc et al ., ).…”

Making and Breaking Microliths: A Middle Mesolithic Site at Asfordby, Leicestershire

“…2008a) while nearby in the Thérain Valley several sites at Warluis also present microlith forms that can be compared to Horsham sites including oblique points, isosceles triangles, large scalene triangles, and asymmetric points with basal retouch, sometimes of hollow-based type (Ducrocq et al . 2008). A similar range to the latter is recorded at Chéronvilliers, Eure, where there are hollow-based and oblique points, together with isosceles and scalene triangles (Souffi 2008).…”