A New Look at the End of the Middle Palaeolithic Sequence in Southwestern France

Jacques Jaubert (1) , Jean-Guillaume Bordes (1) , Emmanuel Discamps (1) , Brad Gravina (1)

1 PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie

In the south west of France the majority of research concerning the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition tends to focus upon the Chatelperronian and Aurignacian at the expense of the end of the Middle Palaeolithic. This contribution attempts to rectify this shortcoming by demonstrating that the classic model of a direct MTA-Chatelperronian filiation is no longer valid as these two techno-complexes are in fact separated by two final Mousterian phases: a Discoid-Denticulate Mousterian followed by a Levallois Mousterian with large scrapers.

Mots clés: Final Mousterian; Discoid; denticulates; Levallois; Mousterian of Acheulean Tradition (MTA); southwestern France

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire

Jacques Jaubert, Jean-Guillaume Bordes, Emmanuel Discamps, Brad Gravina. A New Look at the End of the Middle Palaeolithic Sequence in Southwestern France. A. P. Derevianko & M. V. Shunkov. Characteristic features of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Eurasia, Asian Palaeolithic Association, pp.102-115, 2011. ⟨halshs-00656667⟩