NEW DATA ON THE UPPER PLEISTOCENE HUMAN OCCUPATIONS IN THE MIDDLE RHONE VALLEY (FRANCE) THE SITES OF ABRI DES PECHEURS, BAUME FLANDIN, ABRI DU MARAS AND LE FIGUIER (ARDECHE)

作者：Moncel Marie Helene^*; Daujeard Camille; Cregut Bonnoure Evelyne; Boulbes Nicolas; Puaud Simon; Debard Evelyne; Bailon Salvador; Desclaux Emmanuel; Escude Elise; Roger Thierry; Dubar Michel

来源：Quaternaire, 2010, 21(4): 385-411.

• South-Eastern France
• Rhone valley
• Middle Palaeolithic
• chronology
• palaeenvironments
• human behaviours

NEW DATA ON THE UPPER PLEISTOCENE HUMAN OCCUPATIONS IN THE MIDDLE RHONE VALLEY (FRANCE) THE SITES OF ABRI DES PECHEURS, BAUME FLANDIN, ABRI DU MARAS AND LE FIGUIER (ARDECHE)
Between 2005 and 2007, through a project supported by the French Ministry of Culture and the Rhone-Alpes area, new studies took place in the Middle Palaeolithic sites of the Baume Flandin, Abri des Pecheurs,Abri du Maras and the Figuier Cave. These studies brought detailed data on the biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental framework of human occupations located on the right side of the Middle Rhone Valley in south-eastern France. Several excavations took place in these sites which yielded new lithic and fauna assemblages in their stratigraphical context. The palaeolontological analysis date the level of the Baume Flandin of the beginning of the isotopic stage 5, older than the base of the Abri du Maras and the Abri des Pecheurs dated to the end of the isotopic stage 5. The top of the sequence of the Abri du Maras is contemporaneous of the isotopic stage 4, such as the sequences of the deepest chambers of the Figuier cave. In Baume Flandin, Abri des Pecheurs and the Figuier Cave, the ibex is similar and attributed to Capra ibex cebennarum.
The human occupations are either very short settlements, or seasonal occupations turned to hunting of one or several herbivores. During these occupations, humans used various technical practices, with no relationships with the subsistence behaviours, showing the diversity of the human behaviours in this area whatever the environmental conditions.

• 出版日期2010-12