{"title":"La roche gravée du vallon du Haut-Couletta (Fontan, Alpes-Maritimes)","authors":"J. Mourey, N. Bianchi","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2020.15157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2020.15157","url":null,"abstract":"HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. La roche gravée du vallon du Haut-Couletta (Fontan, Alpes-Maritimes) Jules Masson Mourey, Nicoletta Bianchi","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132540714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Mourey, A. D'anna, Adrien Reggio, Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, S. V. Willigen, C. Paris
{"title":"Les stèles anthropomorphes de la Bastidonne (Trets, Bouches-du-Rhône) et leur contexte du Néolithique moyen","authors":"J. Mourey, A. D'anna, Adrien Reggio, Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, S. V. Willigen, C. Paris","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2020.15107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2020.15107","url":null,"abstract":"EnglishThe Trets plain is located in the south-east of France, on the eastern border of Bouches-du-Rhone department. The entire plain contains a large number of Neolithic sites. La Bastidonne was discovered in the 1870s by Joseph Maneille, after the ploughing of a small vineyard located on the plateau at an altitude of 270 m, which brought to light abundant archaeological artifacts (lithic and pottery, now mostly lost), including several fragments of decorated stelae (fifteen according to the oldest publications, of which eleven are currently kept at the Musee d'archeologie nationale of Saint-Germain-en-Laye). This discovery follows that of eight Provencal stelae of la Puagere (Senas, Bouches-du-Rhone) in 1838. At la Bastidonne, the fragments were found mixed with the remains of possible cremations (ashes and burnt \"human\" bones). However, there has always been confusion as to their exact position as the author of the discovery considered that they had come from a \"destroyed dolmen\". Max Escalon de Fonton found smaller fragments of stelae in 1954, during the excavation of a burial to the south-east of the site, then again by Andre D'Anna in 1977-1978. The twenty-first fragment, the discovery of which is not documented, is kept by the Societe d'etudes et de recherches de la haute vallee de l'Arc. Although the fragments make up the most important collection of Neolithic stelae known in the south of France, the stelae of la Bastidonne have only rarely been put into context. Made from a local limestone, which is tender, fine and chalky, the stelae, intended to be seen in an upright position (placed in the ground) and measuring no more than a few dozen centimetres high, were originally trapezoidal or triangular with a flat rectangular section. Engravings of complex geometric shapes (chevrons, \"fishbone\" motifs, triangles and rhombuses) cover the stelae, with a smooth sub-rectangular hollow in the middle representing a schematic face. The eyes, nose and mouth are absent in most cases, but the shoulders and the upper part of the bust are sometimes depicted. Traces of red dye were also detected on several fragments in the late 19th century. Four other Provencal stelae, from Le Beaucet and Gargas, in the Vaucluse were also found to have traces of the same dye cinnabar (HgS) or mercury sulphide, which is rare in its natural form. Although it has not been possible to determine the origin of the pigment, Spain and Italy provide several examples of its use in funerary contexts dating to the 5th and the 3rd millennium BC. The remaining traces of cinnabar on the la Bastidonne stelae though not organised show that at least the engraved face and the edges were completely covered. The lithic artifacts unearthed in the mid-1950s and late 1970s at la Bastidonne as well as at Sainte-Catherine -- a site located less than 1 km away probably belonging to the same group -- are dated to the Middle Neolithic, first half of the 4th millennium BC. Bedoulian flint from Vauclu","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121754787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversité technique des débitages laminaires au Néolithique ancien à Vaux-et-Borset (Hesbaye, Belgique) : manières de faire, problèmes d’interprétation et perspectives anthropologiques","authors":"Solène Denis, L. Lanotte","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2020.15077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2020.15077","url":null,"abstract":"EnglishThis study explores the technical diversity of blade production in the village of Vaux-et-Borset located in Hesbaye (Belgium), where two settlements have been excavated. The first dates to the Linear Pottery Culture and the second is dated to the Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture. The Linear Pottery Culture settlement comprises of five houses and an enclosure. Stratigraphic observations, combined with the different orientations of the farmsteads suggest two or three occupation phases. The Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain village also comprises of five houses. This paper will focus on the flint industry from these settlements or more precisely on the blades, the study of which underlines a large technical diversity. The objective is to propose a new interpretation of these lithic industries aimed at defining technical traditions, based on the identification of technical processes acquired through learning. By studying both Linear Pottery culture and Blicquian productions, based on 755 Linear Pottery blades and 1186 Bliquian blades, we aim to understand the relationship between continuity and innovation in these two cultural groups from the unprecedented perspective of the transmission of technical expertise. Linear Pottery knappers and Blicquian knappers from Vaux-et-Borset do not select the same siliceous materials to produce their blades, as the former has clearly oriented their selection towards local raw materials, whereas the proportion of exogenous flint blades in Blicquian contexts is extremely high and is largely preferred in several housing units. The large supply of exogenous raw materials to the Blicquian settlement does not seem to be for the manufacture of tools for a particular technical activity, but was used for the village's contemporary needs, on the same basis as local materials. The productions are similar with the manufacture of small blades (7-10 cm) with a trapezoidal section. Furthermore, all raw materials seem to have been knapped locally, raising the question of the identity of the knappers, which is highlighted by their technical diversity and expressed by the differential treatment of the striking platforms and the preparations made for the detachment of the blades. Some blades have been knapped on a flat striking platform, some on a facetted one and the preparations for the detachment seem to have been done with a punch or a stone. Within the various stages and operations of blade production, the processing of striking platforms seems to constitute a technical action relaying a strong identity. Furthermore, it is necessary to underline the technical homogeneity within the Linear Pottery context, whereas in the Blicquian context the three raw materials are processed according to three different technical modalities. There is also a difference in the skills. Several knappers know specific arrangements to obtain more regular trapezoidal section blades, with a technical process that requires a good skill leve","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128875881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Découverte d’une grande stèle anthropomorphe gravée en Île-de-France orientale (la Grande Maison, Chamigny, Seine-et-Marne)","authors":"Rosalie Jallot, J. Mourey","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2019.15058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2019.15058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123953723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De nouvelles dates 14C pour la faune pléistocène du gouffre d’Habarra (Arudy, Pyrénées-Atlantiques)","authors":"Jean-Marc Pétillon, D. Kuntz, G. Marsan","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2019.15032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2019.15032","url":null,"abstract":"Summary of the 12 radiocarbon dates (7 of which previously unpublished) made on horse, bison, rhino and reindeer from the Habarra natural trap in western Pyrenees. The majority are contemporary with the Recent Aurignacian (ca. 36-32 cal ka BP), a period which is not documented in anthropic sites in that sector of the Pyrenees.","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115090395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anaïs Vignoles, L. Klaric, William E. Banks, Malvina Baumann
{"title":"Le Gravettien du Fourneau du Diable (Bourdeilles, Dordogne) : révision chronoculturelle des ensembles lithiques de la «Terrasse inférieure »","authors":"Anaïs Vignoles, L. Klaric, William E. Banks, Malvina Baumann","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2019.15026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2019.15026","url":null,"abstract":"EnglishIn France, the Middle Gravettian (ca. 32-29 ka cal. BP) is characterized by two \" facies \" principally defined on the basis of their lithic industries: the Noaillian is recognized by the presence of Noailles burins and the Rayssian, which has become better recognized since the 2000s, is characterized by a particular method of reducing Raysse nuclei (formerly burins) to produce a type of armature termed the \" la Picardie \" bladelet. The Noaillian stratigraphically precedes the Rayssian in Northern Aquitaine archaeological sequences, and these two typo-technical traditions occupy partially overlapping territories. Whereas the Noaillian is observed primarily in southwestern France (from the Pyrenees to the southern Loire river), with extensions into Cantabrian Spain, southeastern France and Western Italy, the geographical distribution of the Rayssian extends into more northerly regions (northern Aquitaine Basin, the Centre region, Burgundy and Brittany). This has led many researchers to postulate that the Rayssian may be an adaptation to different environments than those exploited by the Noaillian. However, this view is potentially biased since a review of the published literature reveals a wide disparity in the types and quality of information available for individual archaeological sites. At Le Fourneau du Diable (Bourdeilles, Dordogne), for example, the existence of several Gravettian phases (initially \" Perigordian \") has been proposed by different authors. Excavated between the 1910s-1930s by D. Peyrony, this site was successively attributed to the \" Perigordian IV \" (Lower Gravettian), the Lower Noaillian (Noaillian stricto sensu) and the \" Recent Noaillian \" (Rayssian). Recent excavations directed by M. Baumann make it possible to better evaluate these chronocultural attributions and to specify biases introduced by the excavation methods employed during the previous century. Our study consists of a typo-technical examination of the lithic industry recovered from a test unit (1 m.) excavated during 2015 on the site's lower terrace into the back dirt from previous excavations. A review of the Peyrony collection was also carried out in order to supplement and confirm previous studies' observations. The aim here is to identify the different chronocultural episodes present in the lower terrace's deposits, as well as to compare our chronocultural attributions to those proposed previously. The Solutrean is represented by various retouched artefacts attributable to the Upper or Final Solutrean (Laurel-leaves and shouldered points) and by debitage diagnostic of bifacial reduction (bifacial thinning flakes). The Gravettian can be divided into three groups: 1) an \" unspecified \" Gravettian component, represented by ubiquitous retouched elements common to most of its sub-phases (e.g., microgravettes, backed and truncated bladelets); 2) a Noaillian assemblage made up exclusively of Noailles burins and their diagnostic microlithic spalls; and 3) a d","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":" 16","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120831312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La diffusion numérique de la revue Dialektikê, Cahiers de typologie analytique (1972-1987) : quinze années de création méthodologique et conceptuelle en archéologie préhistorique","authors":"Sébastien Plutniak","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2019.15005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2019.15005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130339242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Manen, T. Perrin, A. Raux, D. Binder, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, F. Briois, F. Convertini, Stéphan Dubernet, G. Escallon, Louise Gomart, J. Guilaine, C. Hamon, S. Philibert, Alain Queffelec
{"title":"Le sommet de l’iceberg ? Colonisation pionnière et néolithisation de la France méditerranéenne","authors":"C. Manen, T. Perrin, A. Raux, D. Binder, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, F. Briois, F. Convertini, Stéphan Dubernet, G. Escallon, Louise Gomart, J. Guilaine, C. Hamon, S. Philibert, Alain Queffelec","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2019.15002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2019.15002","url":null,"abstract":"En Mediterranee occidentale, l’emergence des societes agro-pastorales, au debut du 6e millenaire avant notre ere, est desormais expliquee par un modele de colonisation de petits groupes originaires du complexe Impressa de la peninsule italique, precedant de plusieurs siecles la phase d’expansion de la culture cardiale. Sur le littoral mediterraneen francais, les gisements archeologiques qui permettent de caracteriser cette etape precoce du processus de neolithisation sont encore rares et la documentation qu’ils livrent est de valeur tres inegale. La decouverte d’une occupation Impressa sur le site de la ZAC de la Farigoule 2, localise a Aubord, en Languedoc mediterraneen, permet de consolider nos connaissances sur ce phenomene historique majeur. Bien que d’ampleur limitee, ce gisement documente l’installation perenne d’un groupe Impressa : temoignage de la pratique de l’agriculture cerealiere, diversite des activites artisanales, outils de potiers. Les ressources locales sont exploitees : matieres premieres siliceuses, terres argileuses, galets de roche tenace. Neanmoins, l’apport de produits acquis a plusieurs centaines de kilometres de distance renforce l’hypothese du deplacement pionnier de groupes humains emportant avec eux leur bagage technique, economique et culturel. Reintegrees dans le contexte du sud de la France et plus generalement de Mediterranee occidentale, ces nouvelles donnees permettent de realiser un bilan des connaissances sur ces impacts Impressa precoces et d’ouvrir la discussion sur la distribution spatiale de ces implantations pionnieres, les liens de filiation avec les facies cardiaux qui se developperont ulterieurement ainsi que sur les dynamiques spatio-temporelles de la neolithisation ouest-mediterraneenne.","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123789597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Pradier, Aung Aung Kyaw, Tin Tin Win, Anna Willis, Aude Favereau, F. Valentin, T. O. Pryce
{"title":"Pratiques funéraires et dynamique spatiale à Oakaie 1, une nécropole à la transition du Néolithique à l’Âge du Bronze au Myanmar (Birmanie)","authors":"B. Pradier, Aung Aung Kyaw, Tin Tin Win, Anna Willis, Aude Favereau, F. Valentin, T. O. Pryce","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2019.15029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2019.15029","url":null,"abstract":"EnglishIn Southeast Asia, the late prehistoric period, from the appearance of farming to the rise of proto-states, lasts only 1500-2000 years, and is thus extremely brief in comparison to Europe. Cemeteries represent critical sites in the chronological and cultural understanding of these changes, stimulated by influences from both China and India. Myanmar is the only Southeast Asia nation to share terrestrial frontiers with both these vast neighbours, but in comparison even with Thailand and Viet Nam, archaeological investigation in Myanmar is in a phase of rapid expansion. As such, the late prehistoric dataset is beginning to offer opportunities for detailed and synthetic interpretations of this critical in the Sagaing Division of central Myanmar. Oakaie 1 is a well preserved cemetery at the heart of a rich archaeological area, which was investigated by the French Archaeological Mission in Myanmar (MAFM) between 2014 and 2016. As a result of these efforts, the Oakaie area has the most secure radiometric chronological sequence in Myanmar, with 52 determinations, and has been the focus of a number of advanced approaches, many of them firsts for the country. The excavation of the Oakaie 1 cemetery, during two four-week field seasons in 2014-15, lead to the exposure of 55 graves containing 57 individuals. This discovery gave us the opportunity to study the evolution of funerary practices in a single cemetery over a period of several centuries. The Oakaie 1 graves were cut in a hard volcanic tuff and filled with a more humid and brown soil, which made them extremely easy to recognize. The graves are arranged in well-defined rows, following one of two orientations, N-S or NNW-SSE. The graves are mainly single primary supine extended burials but some nine graves contain at least two individuals, and maybe more. One grave also contains the burial of a dog. The taphonomic analysis of the burials shows that most of the bodies decomposed within an open volume. The study of the constraints marked on the skeletons shows that a common type of container, a hollowed out tree trunk was probably used throughout the cemetery, with some differences in terms of narrowness. Taphonomic study of the multiple graves has failed to establish whether individuals were buried simultaneously. The main grave good is pottery, which was deposited in various places around the body, mainly on the lower limbs and during the filling of the graves. Some ornaments were found, consisting of beads, made of stone and shell, as well as bangles made of stone and animal bone. Only one grave, S15, furnished a metal artefact, a socketed bronze axe. Graves goods were quite sparse throughout the cemetery, as compared to its well-known neighbour, Nyaung'gan, with the exception of S15, which contained by far the most pottery, in addition to the sole bronze. The comprehensive study of the cemetery's spatial organization, the intercutting of the burials, the funerary practices as identified via tap","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":"55 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123703143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deux stèles anthropomorphes inédites du Néolithique final gardois : Jonquières (Cannes-et-Clairan) et La Rouquette no 2 (Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas)","authors":"Jules Masson mourey","doi":"10.3406/bspf.2020.15084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2020.15084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":375388,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122834212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}