http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=259 Entrées d’index fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=1751 Major river systems played an important role as orientation axes for European Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers. We illustrate this hypothesis by observations on lithic raw material dispersal along major rivers systems, i.e. The Danube, the Rhine and the Rhône. Human mobility and the presence of supra-regional exchange systems led to the move of lithic artefacts, raw material contingents and elements of personal decoration. These results are tested by the study and the comparison of elements of Ice Age mobile and parietal art. Les grands réseaux fluviaux ont joué un rôle important comme axe d’orientation pour les chasseurs-cueilleurs du Paléolithique supérieur en Europe. Nous illustrons cette hypothèse par des observations sur la dispersion de la matière première lithique le long des systèmes de rivières importants, c’est-à-dire le Danube, le Rhin et le Rhône. La mobilité humaine et la présence des systèmes d’échanges régionaux permettent le mouvement d’artefacts lithiques, de matières premières et d’éléments de décoration personnelle. Ces résultats sont examinés par l’étude et la comparaison des éléments de l’art mobilier et pariétal à la période glacière. Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:40:21 +0100 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:40:28 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=1751 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=258 Rock resources in the territory of Hungary yielded a large variety of knapped tool stone materials in the Palaeolithic. Flint materials from north and east of the arch of the Carpathians are also present in the Middle and Late Upper Palaeolithic record of Hungary, especially in Gravettian and Epigravettian assemblages. Distant raw materials are often indicative of connections between remote areas. The Hungarian archaeological record shows that from ca. 28 to 13 k years BP there is decrease in the proportions of distant flints at the Last Glacial Maximum. The highest ratio of distant materials appears after the withdrawal of the ice sheet between 17 and 13 k years BP. Therefore climatic conditions seem to have influenced distant connections. Connections could have been direct, and the distant flints in the archaeological assemblage represents an adherence to high quality materials. Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:24:38 +0100 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:24:46 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=258