http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4133 Entrées d’index fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4220 Des fouilles menées sur plusieurs niveaux du Paléolithique moyen récent dans la vallée de la Vanne (France) ont révélé la présence en faible quantité de bifaces au sein d'industries technologiquement semblables. Seuls les bifaces différencient les niveaux micoquiens et les niveaux moustériens: typologie et nombre, position et délinéation des zones retouchées varient selon l'industrie. Il semble également exister un lien entre le type de biface et la chronologie. A handful of bifaces: the industries poor in bifaces in the Middle Palaeolithic of the Vanne valley (Yonne, France) : Excavations of several Middle Palaeolithic levels in the Vanne Valley (France) have produced some bifaces within same technologically similar industries. Only the bifaces distinguish these mousterian and micoquian: typology and number; position and area of retouched zones. Equally there seems to be a link between biface type and chronology Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:03:28 +0200 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:59:28 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4220 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4170 La littérature ancienne et les travaux récents font état de nombreuses séries attribuées au Paléolithique ayant livré des outils bifaciaux. L'organisation de la table ronde consacrée aux "industries bifaciales d'Europe occidentale" nous a fourni l'opportunité de faire le récolement de la documentation, des potentiels subsistants, d'effectuer un bilan des connaissances. The Middle Palaeolithic with bifacial tools in Normandy : Earlier literature and recent work describe many series attributed to the Palaeolithic with bifacial implements. The opportunity of this table ronde on 'bifacial industries of Western Europe' has provided us with the opportunity to synthesise current knowledge. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:58:36 +0200 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:58:29 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4170 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4129 L'outillage bifacial occupe une place importante dans les industries du Paléolithique moyen, pourtant il est encore souvent abordé sous le seul angle de la typologie et toujours indépendamment de l'outillage non bifacial avec lequel il partage la panoplie des artisans. Nous proposons ici une lecture technofonctionnelle des outils bifaciaux et non bifaciaux afin d'en percevoir les relations tant techniques que fonctionnelles. Cette voie nous semble primordiale pour aborder le statut de l'outillage bifacial dans les industries du Paléolithique moyen. Nous nous appuyons pour illustrer cette approche sur la situation rencontrée lors de l'étude de l'industrie de Mesvin IV (Belgique). Functional status of the bifacial tools in the Middle Palaeolithic: methodological proposals : Biface technology occupies an important place in Middle Palaeolithic industries, however it is still often approached from the single angle of typology and always independently of the non-biface technology witch it shares with the flintworkers' range. We propose here a techno-functional treatment of bifacial and non-bifacial implements with the aim of establishing their relationships, as much technical as functional. This route seems to us basic to tacking the status of bifacial technology in Middle Palaelolithic industries. To illustrate this approach we base ourselves on the study of the Mesvin IV industry (Belgium). Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:56:15 +0200 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:57:29 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4129 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=6108 The stability of settlement is characterized by the link of Palaeolithic populations either to a given microregion or to one site – both within a single cultural-chronological phase and during a long period of time including various techno-typological complexes. Evidence of such behaviour can be more easily found in regions outside western Europe, whose occupation density was, in the course of the Upper Pleistocene, considerably high and where the same sites had always been repeatedly settled. Moreover, the links to a given microregion or site are much more obvious in the open countryside than in regions with frequent caves which provided natural shelters.The Aurignacian settlement of central Moravia can be quoted as an example of the link of a technocomplex to a given microregion. There, on an area of no more than 10 × 10 kilometers, several scores of sites have been discovered, some of them qualified as huge ones with hundreds and even thousands of artifacts – despite the fact that there is no important source of raw material in this region. On the contrary, the principal material used there was flint-stone imported from a minimum of 100 kilometers. The most interesting concentration of settlements is, however, in Kostienki on the Don river, where eight settlements have been discovered in the lower part of the small valley called Pokrovskij Log, most of them being multilayered and in some cases situated in close proximity of each other. Although they represent different technocomplexes, all of them had originated during a relatively brief period of time. A striking phenomenon is the link of various populations during longer periods of time to certain locations, quite banal within the countryside and with no outstanding features. Willendorf on the Danube river, Moldova V on the Dniester or Mitoc on the Prut can be quoted here. Also some “abri”, located in hardly accessible or otherwise unfavourable areas, belong to this group. Let us remind here the “abri” Fumane in the Italian Dolomites or the “abri” Crvena stijena in Montenegro, settled from the interglacial till the Mesolithic. These examples document certain stability in the links of Palaeolithic populations to settlement regions and even to individual sites. However, the motifs of such behaviour can hardly be explained. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:17:53 +0100 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:18:02 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=6108 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=5836 En cours de fouille depuis 1985, la grotte Walou livre la plus importante stratigraphie en grotte du Paléolithique moyen et supérieur ancien de Belgique, susceptible d’être étudiée selon les méthodes pluridisciplinaires actuelles de la recherche quaternaire Undergoing excavation since 1985, the Walou cave has yielded the most important scientific stratigraphy from the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic in Belgium, for which present-day multidisciplinary methods for quaternary research can be used. Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:51:09 +0100 Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:53:17 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=5836 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4306 Cette contribution résume et analyse les arguments actuels relatifs à l'association des Néandertaliens à la technologie szélétienne et aborde : la comparaison entre les modèles chatelperronien et szélétien, les aspects chronologiques et technologiques, le contexte des fossiles néandertaliens durant le Paléolithique moyen et supérieur initial, résume les recherches en cours et énonce les perspectives. The Szeletian question : This paper resumes and discusses the current arguments for associating the Neanderthals with the Szeletian technology: a comparison of the Chatelperronian and Szeletian models, chronological and technological background, context of the Neanderthal fossils over the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic, summary of the ongoing research, and the perspectives. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:12:53 +0200 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:13:03 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4306 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4243 Le Micoquien est une tradition autonome, propre à l'Europe centrale, et datant du Paléolithique moyen. Il n'existe aucun rapport phylétique avec l'Acheuléen, plus ancien et typiquement occidental. The Micoquian and its by-products : The Micoquian is an autonomous tradition in Central Europe, dating to the Middle Palaeolithic. There is no phyletic connection with the older and typically western Acheulean Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:05:03 +0200 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:05:10 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4243 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4236 Les outils bifaciaux dans les assemblages du Paléolithique moyen du sud-est de la France sont toujours rares et en particulier à partir du stade isotopique 9. Le type d'aménagement fait penser, dans la plupart des cas, à un façonnage très limité de "supports" pointus sur galets, blocs ou même éclats. Les tranchants dégagés sur ces supports, dont la forme demande au préalable peu d'aménagement, sont repris ensuite ponctuellement par des retouches, autant de zones fonctionnelles potentielles adjacentes à des zones brutes pouvant être des zones de préhension. La pièce a pu être retravaillée localement au cours de son histoire, sans en modifier la forme générale qui est très variée. D'autres bifaces, moins nombreux, présentent au contraire un aménagement de grande ampleur, avec ou non la trace de retouches secondaires sur les arêtes. Ces séries d'enlèvement superposés peuvent résulter d'un unique aménagement ou d'un façonnage en plusieurs étapes au cours de l'utilisation. La fractura/ion de l'extrémité de certains bifaces semble confirmer une grande diversité dans le concept et l'usage de cet outil qui disparaît des assemblages au stade isotopique 4. Malgré sa rareté quelle que soit la période, cet outil est une des composantes de la panoplie de l'outillage que l'on ne peut ignorer. The Middle Palaeolithic with bifacial tools in the south-east of France: reflexions on a marginal phenomenon : Bifaces are rare in the Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from south-east of France, especially from the isotopic stage 9 to the isotopic stage 4. In most cases, the shaping consists of pointed blanks, on pebbles, blocks and even large flakes which need a limited shaping. Then the edges are partially retouched. Each retouched areas could be use locations. The tool can be shaped again during its use, according ta need, and without a shape change which does not seem to be really important for the tool makers. Other bifaces, less numerous, show extensive shaping, with or without secondary retouches. The successive removals could result from a unique work or different moments along time. The break of the point of some bifaces seems to show that the use of this kind of tool is various, a tool which disappeared during the isotopic stage 4 in this geographical district. In spite of its low number whatever the date, the biface be longs to the tool assemblages and we cannot ignore it. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:04:36 +0200 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:04:45 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4236 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4183 Cet article présente une vue d'ensemble de quinze séries lithiques mises au jour dans le nord de la France depuis une quinzaine d'années. Les bifaces sont rares au sein de ces assemblages dominés par la production d'éclats, de lames et de pointes. L'outillage retouché est également représenté, ce qui met en évidence l'importance des outil "a posteriori". La précision du cadre chronostratigraphique permet d'apporter une nouvelle contribution à la connaissance des industries du Paléolithique moyen Techno-typological characterization and chronostratigraphic position of several industries with rare bifaces and bificial productsin northern France : This paper presents an overall view of fifteen lithic series recently discovered in northern France. Bifaces are rare in these assemblages charaterized by flake, blade and point production. The retouched tools are not very numerous. This highlights the importance of the non retouched artefacts ('a posteriori' tools). The precision of the chronostratigraphical framework brings a new contribution to the knowledge of the lithic industries of the Middle Palaeolithic Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:59:23 +0200 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:59:31 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=4183