http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4099 Entrées d’index fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=6112 Ethnoarchaeology, considered as a subdiscipline of archaeology, has a growing significance for prehistory research as the significance of ethnology is reduced by the withdrawal of ethnologists (at least in German speaking countries) from fields such as the “incipient” peoples and their material culture which traditionally had combined the two disciplines. When 30 years ago L.R. Binford wrote about “archaeology as anthropology” and initiated thus a “revival” of archaeological material, the time of processual archaeology had come. Binford’s views on different behaviour during hominisation especially in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic inspired discussions also among European archaeologists. An applied example (Simek 1987) concerning the French Palaeolithic is critically considered which refers to Binford’s model of changing human behaviour in land use and social structure. Different levels of behaviour and the impact on the archaeological record are stressed. Further on, a theory of Binford (1991) is discussed which demonstrates that the social role of elderly male members in a community is dependent on living conditions and environment for a hunter society. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:45:43 +0100 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:45:57 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=6112 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4087 Parallèlement aux études synthétiques pluridisciplinaires réalisées sur les gisements acheuléens du bassin de la Somme près de Cagny, sont menées des études ponctuelles concernant les caractéristiques métriques et morphologiques des bifaces, lesquelles restent sources de précieuses informations fonctionnelles, culturelles et comportementales. Dans les séries de la séquence fluviatile fine de Cagny-l'Epinette, se distinguent plusieurs groupes morphologiques de bifaces, plusieurs statuts dimensionnels de ces outils ainsi que différents types et origines de matière première. Dans ces séries, il existe un lien très étroit entre la dimension et la morphologie originelle du rognon de départ de matière première et la dimension et la morphologie du biface. Un autre lien semble s'esquisser entre les parties fonctionnelles de l'outil bifacial et une méthode de façonnage correspondante. Morpho-functional and metrical analysis of bifaces of the fluvial sequence series (series 10, 11, 11A, 11B/12) of the acheulean site: Cagny l'Epinette, Somme, France : ln parallel with syntheses and multidisciplinary studies of Acheulean sites in the Somme basin around Cagny, there are specific metric and morphological studies of the bifaces, which remain valuable sources of information for function, culture and behaviour news. ln the fluviatile deposits at Cagny-l'Epinette, numerous morphological biface groups can be distinguished, by size variation as well as different types and sources of raw material. ln these series there exists a close link between the size and shape of the original nodule and those of the biface. Another link seems to be indicated between the functional parts of the biface and the way of shaping. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:33:50 +0200 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:33:57 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4087