L’impact du chauvinisme dans les études paléolithiques

An « allergy » against migrationis and diffusionist theories may be observed in the prevailing explanations for cultural change in the European Paleolithic. This tendency has exaggerated attention to diachronic factors in regional sequences and emphasized the notion of autonomous evolution. Such interpretations are radically opposed to those accepted for the historic periods where one finds numerous movements of peoples, ideas and techniques documented. The authors give examples that show the existence of diffusionis phenomena in the Upper Palaeolithic of Europe.