Investigations of chronology play a key role in the majority of archaeological research
endeavors and are particularly pertinent to examinations of culture-environment …

During the Tardiglacial, the significant changes in plant communities relating to climate
changes were responsible for faunal recompositions perceptible throughout Europe. In this …

Petro-archaeology is a powerful tool useful in understanding the origin and management of
rocks discovered in prehistoric sites and the complexity of human territories. This research …

The hunting of small game in the Upper Palaeolithic is a practice that hides a still
underestimated complexity. This article provides an overview of the exploitation of a fast …

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was widespread in almost all of Europe
during the late Pleistocene. However, its distribution changed because of population …

After presenting the geographical framework of this region on the south-eastern edge of the
Massif Central which saw the birth of volcanology and still fuels debates on the …

The Badegoulian technocomplex holds a special place among the West European Upper
Paleolithic (UP) cultural traditions. Often understated or even bypassed by the main …

This paper analyses the Badegoulian and Magdalenian bone industries from a
technological perspective. Following the Refitting by default method, we analyse the …

Issues of chronology are central to inferences pertaining to relationships between both
contemporaneous and successive prehistoric typo-technological entities (ie, archaeological …

Discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Abri Casserole (Dordogne, France)
was the subject of salvage excavations in the early nineties. The fieldwork revealed a …