Solène Denis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5600920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Solène Denis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Solène |
| FAMILY NAME | Denis |
| SIGNATURE | DENIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Préhistoire et Technologie |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7986-217X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crossing the line
This paper introduces a volume that brings together specialists in lithic studies to explore how this proxy can reveal different spatial patterns across a large European territory. It examines how diverse behaviours in various environmental and geographical areas can enhance our understanding of social processes during European neolithisation. Initially, we investigate the concept of borders and borderlines, proposing models based on the space co…
Waste Around Longhouses
The research investigates the waste management and taphonomy of a Linear Pottery Culture (c. 5600–4900 BC) settlements. Waste deposition significantly shaped the archaeological record of the Early Neolithic in Central Europe and its reconstruction fundamentally influences our perception of the settlement space and the daily life of Neolithic people. Traditionally, it has been assumed that individual households discarded waste near their longhouse…
Death and the settlement
Resource dependency and communication networks in Early Neolithic western Europe
During the European Neolithisation Process, a pivotal facet of Neolithic population dynamics lay in the capability of agro-pastoral communities to procure high-quality raw material for stone tools. Whether this material was sourced from local geological units or got transported via large-scale communication networks is, however, not yet fully understood. To trace the distribution patterns of Early Neolithic resource dispersal, we present a multic…
From Polished Stone Tools to Population Dynamics
Hafted stone tools fell into disuse in the Pacific region in the 19th and 20th centuries. Before this occurred, examples of tools were collected by early travelers, explorers and tourists. These objects, which now reside in ethnographic collections around the world, make up a remarkable record of vanished traditions. In this chapter I assemble the most extensive survey of these tools to date. I discuss their distributions and how these relate to …
Radiocarbon Dating of Grass-Tempered Ceramic Reveals the Earliest Pottery From Slovakia Predates the Arrival of Farming
In the absence of wood, bone, and other organics, one possible candidate for determining the age of a site is the radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating of pottery. In central Europe during the Early Neolithic, pottery was ubiquitous and contained substantial quantities of organic temper. However, attempts at the direct dating of organic inclusions raises a lot of methodological issues, especially when several sources of carbon contribute to the resulting ra…
Interlinking research
The Big Exchange project investigates large-scale exchange systems in Eurasia and Africa (8000-1 BC). We concentrate on raw materials of known origin ('sourced finds'). Network analysis of tools and artificial intelligence methods are used to analyse the combined data sets. We invite broad collaboration on bimodal exchange networks
Faceted tools within indigenous hunter-gatherer assemblages of NW Belgium
A recent exhaustive analysis of lithic assemblages from four wetland sites belonging to the 5 th and early 4 th millennium cal BC, all situated in the Lower-Scheldt basin of NW Belgium (East Flanders), has revealed the pres-ence of numerous faceted tools. Unknown prior to the 5 th millennium, these tools constitute a totally new type of tool within hunter-gatherer contexts of the Scheldt basin. Typologically, they seem to resemble similar tools f…
Neolithization Processes of East Belgium
Technological analysis of variations in blade production and the flow of siliceous raw materials revealed new understandings of different types of socio-economic functioning on a supra-regional scale. In this article, we are focusing on supra-regional relationships between technical groups and the social dynamics involved in early Neolithic mobility within the communities of East Belgium. A detailed technological analysis was done to highlight di…
Lithic industries, territory and mobility in the western Linear Pottery Culture
Territory is a complex notion whose definition varies depending on the discipline in which it is applied. Research on the notion of territory has often focused on the Palaeolithic. Studies in this field are mainly based on comparisons between archaeological assemblages and ethnographic data, an approach originating from the work of L.R. Binford, who introduced the concept of mobility, leading to various models of spatial occupation. How have rese…
Diversité technique des débitages laminaires au Néolithique ancien à Vaux-et-Borset (Hesbaye, Belgique)
Cette étude explore la diversité technique de la production laminaire dans les villages rubané et Blicquy/ Villeneuve-Saint-Germain de Vaux-et-Borset (Hesbaye, Belgique). Cette diversité technique est essentiellement définie par un traitement différentiel des plans de frappe et des préparations au détachement des lames. Or, les différences relevées ne conduisent pas à la production de supports pour un outillage spécifique. Elles ne se justifient …
Perspectives sur l’étude des productions lithiques simples au Néolithique
The site of Vasseny “Dessus des Groins”, located in the Aisne, is a small occupation dated to the end of the early Neolithic, Blicquy/ Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture. This culture represents the final phase of the Danubian colonisation in northern France and Belgium. At least three farmsteads were discovered on the site and 1800 flints, which form a small assemblage suitable for the study of so-called simple productions. Indeed, the status of t…
Inter-site Relationships at the End of the Early Neolithic in North-western Europe, Bartonian Flint Circulation and Macro-features Matching Method
This paper demonstrates the potential of fine-grained technological analysis to provide new insights for a better anthropological understanding of raw material distribution. The spatial segmentation of the chaîne opératoire is demonstrated using an original method focusing on the matching of macro-features of tertiary Bartonian flint. The outcrops of this raw material occur in the Paris Basin and the distribution network for this type of flint at…
Post-Linear Pottery cultural boundary and repopulation of the German Rhineland
L’industrie lithique des populations blicquiennes (Néolithique ancien, Belgique) : organisation des productions et réseaux de diffusion: Petits échanges en famille
La culture Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain marque la fin des traditions danubiennes (Néolithique ancien) dans le nord de la France et en Belgique. Les onze sites étudiés sont localisés en Belgique. Deux aires d'implantation, distantes d'une centaine de km sont distinguées (en Hainaut et en Hesbaye). La mise en œuvre d'une analyse techno-économique de l'industrie lithique blicquienne visait à répondre à un double objectif: restituer l'organisatio…
L'industrie lithique des populations blicquiennes
xxv, 257 pages : 30 cm
The circulation of Ghlin flint during the time of the Blicquy - Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture (Early Neolithic)
In the North of France and Belgium, the Blicquy - Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture marks the end of the Early Neolithic Period (beginning of the 5th millennium). The Blicquy group is constituted of eleven sites located in Belgium, with two main centers of occupation: one Western in Hainaut and one Eastern in Hesbaye, 100 km away from the first. As part of a PhD, the lithic industry of these sites is studied in order to reconstruct the circulation…
Le débitage laminaire en silex tertiaire bartonien dans la culture Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain, Néolithique ancien
The Blicquy/ Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (BQ/ VSG) culture combines the former Blicquy (Belgium) and Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (north France) groups. Chronologically, the BQ/ VSG follows the Linearbandkeramik and is dated to between 4950 and 4650 BC. The circulation of Bartonian Tertiary flint within this culture is an established fact. However, it is now possible to examine patterns in more detail, as the number of sites has considerably increased s…
Lithic industries, territory and mobility in the western Linear Pottery Culture
Territory is a complex notion whose definition varies depending on the discipline in which it is applied. Research on the notion of territory has often focused on the Palaeolithic. Studies in this field are mainly based on comparisons between archaeological assemblages and ethnographic data, an approach originating from the work of L.R. Binford, who introduced the concept of mobility, leading to various models of spatial occupation. How have rese…
Resource dependency and communication networks in Early Neolithic western Europe
During the European Neolithisation Process, a pivotal facet of Neolithic population dynamics lay in the capability of agro-pastoral communities to procure high-quality raw material for stone tools. Whether this material was sourced from local geological units or got transported via large-scale communication networks is, however, not yet fully understood. To trace the distribution patterns of Early Neolithic resource dispersal, we present a multic…
Radiocarbon Dating of Grass-Tempered Ceramic Reveals the Earliest Pottery From Slovakia Predates the Arrival of Farming
In the absence of wood, bone, and other organics, one possible candidate for determining the age of a site is the radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating of pottery. In central Europe during the Early Neolithic, pottery was ubiquitous and contained substantial quantities of organic temper. However, attempts at the direct dating of organic inclusions raises a lot of methodological issues, especially when several sources of carbon contribute to the resulting ra…
Le débitage laminaire en silex tertiaire bartonien dans la culture Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain, Néolithique ancien
The Blicquy/ Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (BQ/ VSG) culture combines the former Blicquy (Belgium) and Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (north France) groups. Chronologically, the BQ/ VSG follows the Linearbandkeramik and is dated to between 4950 and 4650 BC. The circulation of Bartonian Tertiary flint within this culture is an established fact. However, it is now possible to examine patterns in more detail, as the number of sites has considerably increased s…
Le débitage laminaire en silex tertiaire bartonien dans la culture Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain, Néolithique ancien
The Blicquy/ Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (BQ/ VSG) culture combines the former Blicquy (Belgium) and Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (north France) groups. Chronologically, the BQ/ VSG follows the Linearbandkeramik and is dated to between 4950 and 4650 BC. The circulation of Bartonian Tertiary flint within this culture is an established fact. However, it is now possible to examine patterns in more detail, as the number of sites has considerably increased s…
The circulation of Ghlin flint during the time of the Blicquy - Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture (Early Neolithic)
In the North of France and Belgium, the Blicquy - Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture marks the end of the Early Neolithic Period (beginning of the 5th millennium). The Blicquy group is constituted of eleven sites located in Belgium, with two main centers of occupation: one Western in Hainaut and one Eastern in Hesbaye, 100 km away from the first. As part of a PhD, the lithic industry of these sites is studied in order to reconstruct the circulation…
L’industrie lithique des populations blicquiennes (Néolithique ancien, Belgique) : organisation des productions et réseaux de diffusion: Petits échanges en famille
La culture Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain marque la fin des traditions danubiennes (Néolithique ancien) dans le nord de la France et en Belgique. Les onze sites étudiés sont localisés en Belgique. Deux aires d'implantation, distantes d'une centaine de km sont distinguées (en Hainaut et en Hesbaye). La mise en œuvre d'une analyse techno-économique de l'industrie lithique blicquienne visait à répondre à un double objectif: restituer l'organisatio…
L'industrie lithique des populations blicquiennes
xxv, 257 pages : 30 cm
Post-Linear Pottery cultural boundary and repopulation of the German Rhineland
Perspectives sur l’étude des productions lithiques simples au Néolithique
The site of Vasseny “Dessus des Groins”, located in the Aisne, is a small occupation dated to the end of the early Neolithic, Blicquy/ Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture. This culture represents the final phase of the Danubian colonisation in northern France and Belgium. At least three farmsteads were discovered on the site and 1800 flints, which form a small assemblage suitable for the study of so-called simple productions. Indeed, the status of t…
Inter-site Relationships at the End of the Early Neolithic in North-western Europe, Bartonian Flint Circulation and Macro-features Matching Method
This paper demonstrates the potential of fine-grained technological analysis to provide new insights for a better anthropological understanding of raw material distribution. The spatial segmentation of the chaîne opératoire is demonstrated using an original method focusing on the matching of macro-features of tertiary Bartonian flint. The outcrops of this raw material occur in the Paris Basin and the distribution network for this type of flint at…
Diversité technique des débitages laminaires au Néolithique ancien à Vaux-et-Borset (Hesbaye, Belgique)
Cette étude explore la diversité technique de la production laminaire dans les villages rubané et Blicquy/ Villeneuve-Saint-Germain de Vaux-et-Borset (Hesbaye, Belgique). Cette diversité technique est essentiellement définie par un traitement différentiel des plans de frappe et des préparations au détachement des lames. Or, les différences relevées ne conduisent pas à la production de supports pour un outillage spécifique. Elles ne se justifient …
Neolithization Processes of East Belgium
Technological analysis of variations in blade production and the flow of siliceous raw materials revealed new understandings of different types of socio-economic functioning on a supra-regional scale. In this article, we are focusing on supra-regional relationships between technical groups and the social dynamics involved in early Neolithic mobility within the communities of East Belgium. A detailed technological analysis was done to highlight di…
Lithic industries, territory and mobility in the western Linear Pottery Culture
Territory is a complex notion whose definition varies depending on the discipline in which it is applied. Research on the notion of territory has often focused on the Palaeolithic. Studies in this field are mainly based on comparisons between archaeological assemblages and ethnographic data, an approach originating from the work of L.R. Binford, who introduced the concept of mobility, leading to various models of spatial occupation. How have rese…
Faceted tools within indigenous hunter-gatherer assemblages of NW Belgium
A recent exhaustive analysis of lithic assemblages from four wetland sites belonging to the 5 th and early 4 th millennium cal BC, all situated in the Lower-Scheldt basin of NW Belgium (East Flanders), has revealed the pres-ence of numerous faceted tools. Unknown prior to the 5 th millennium, these tools constitute a totally new type of tool within hunter-gatherer contexts of the Scheldt basin. Typologically, they seem to resemble similar tools f…
From Polished Stone Tools to Population Dynamics
Hafted stone tools fell into disuse in the Pacific region in the 19th and 20th centuries. Before this occurred, examples of tools were collected by early travelers, explorers and tourists. These objects, which now reside in ethnographic collections around the world, make up a remarkable record of vanished traditions. In this chapter I assemble the most extensive survey of these tools to date. I discuss their distributions and how these relate to …
Radiocarbon Dating of Grass-Tempered Ceramic Reveals the Earliest Pottery From Slovakia Predates the Arrival of Farming
In the absence of wood, bone, and other organics, one possible candidate for determining the age of a site is the radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating of pottery. In central Europe during the Early Neolithic, pottery was ubiquitous and contained substantial quantities of organic temper. However, attempts at the direct dating of organic inclusions raises a lot of methodological issues, especially when several sources of carbon contribute to the resulting ra…
Interlinking research
The Big Exchange project investigates large-scale exchange systems in Eurasia and Africa (8000-1 BC). We concentrate on raw materials of known origin ('sourced finds'). Network analysis of tools and artificial intelligence methods are used to analyse the combined data sets. We invite broad collaboration on bimodal exchange networks
Death and the settlement
Resource dependency and communication networks in Early Neolithic western Europe
During the European Neolithisation Process, a pivotal facet of Neolithic population dynamics lay in the capability of agro-pastoral communities to procure high-quality raw material for stone tools. Whether this material was sourced from local geological units or got transported via large-scale communication networks is, however, not yet fully understood. To trace the distribution patterns of Early Neolithic resource dispersal, we present a multic…
Crossing the line
This paper introduces a volume that brings together specialists in lithic studies to explore how this proxy can reveal different spatial patterns across a large European territory. It examines how diverse behaviours in various environmental and geographical areas can enhance our understanding of social processes during European neolithisation. Initially, we investigate the concept of borders and borderlines, proposing models based on the space co…
Waste Around Longhouses
The research investigates the waste management and taphonomy of a Linear Pottery Culture (c. 5600–4900 BC) settlements. Waste deposition significantly shaped the archaeological record of the Early Neolithic in Central Europe and its reconstruction fundamentally influences our perception of the settlement space and the daily life of Neolithic people. Traditionally, it has been assumed that individual households discarded waste near their longhouse…
Geography (14 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 works) · Geology (7 works) · Structural basin (6 works) · Paleontology (4 works) · Pottery (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cartography (3 works)