http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=3662 Entrées d’index fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=6098 This paper aims at summarizing the main chronological framework and characteristics of the cultural entities recognized today within the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean Levant. The Lower Palaeolithic incorporates several of the oldest sites, such as ‘Ubeidiya, that can be compared in part to Dmanisi in Georgia. Numerous assemblages and a few samples are recorded in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. The Upper Acheulian is better known and seems to date from the early Middle Pleistocene. The Acheulo-Yabrudian entity is a special culture known only from the northern and central Levant. The Levantine Mousterian is currently at the center of the debate over the origins of modern humans. New TL dates indicate that the early Mousterian manifestations may be 270 kyr old and that the latest are 50–48 kyr old. Middle Palaeolithic sites provide information concerning prehistoric diets, hearths, and human mortuary practices. Mineralogical studies decipher the differences in bone preservation in various caves. Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:54:28 +0100 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:54:35 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=6098 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=3642 Les recherches menées depuis 1974 dans le Massif Central français (Basse-Auvergne et Velay) ont intéressé différents types de formations superficielles quaternaires, certaines caractéristiques de milieux particuliers de sédimentation: abris sous-basaltiques, grottes en contexte basanitique, paléo-lacs de maars, etc. Ces dépôts sont en relation directe ou indirecte avec la Préhistoire. L'intrication constante avec les phénomènes volcaniques en Basse-Auvergne a permis l’acquisition de datations absolues, en particulier par thermoluminescence, des calages paléomagnétiques, donc des comparaisons fructueuses avec d'autres séquences régionales et le cadre plus global des données isotopiques des océans pour les 160 derniers millénaires. Dans ce cadre précisé, la caractérisation des industries préhistoriques s'insère et permet des observations de comportement vis-à-vis des milieux physiques et biotiques : à un Acheuléen diversifié antérieur au dernier interglaciaire, succède, dès 85 ka BP, un Moustérien charentien proche du type "Ferrassie oriental". Pendant le pléniglaciaire du Würm ancien, le Moustérien de tradition acheuléenne est cantonné à basse altitude où il demeure jusqu'à la fin de l'interstade würmien, vers 34 ka BP. Since 1974, different types of quaternary deposits in French Massif Central (Basse-Auvergne and Velay) have been explored and studied. Some of them belong to peculiar sedimentary environments: basaltic rock-shelters, caves in surtseyan tephra, maar paleo-lakes… These deposits are directly - or indirectly – linked with prehistory. During the last 160 ky, one can observe a constant volcanic activity in part of the area (Basse-Auvergne). Thus, absolute datings, specially by thermoluminescence, and paleomagnetic datas allow fruitful comparisons with other regional sequences and with the global deep-sea isotopic frame. Characterization of stone tools assemblages takes place in this precised frame and allows a better knowledge about relationships between man and his surrounding physical and biological environment. A diversified Acheulean is known before last interglacial, followed, since 85 ky BP, by a charentian Mousterian close to the eastern Ferrassie type. During the lower Würm pleniglacial, Mousterians of Acheulean type settle at low height where they stay till the end of würmian interstadial, about 34 ky BP. Wed, 07 May 2025 16:26:54 +0200 Wed, 07 May 2025 16:27:01 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=3642