Eric Boëda
Biographic Data
| ID | 73007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Boëda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Boëda |
| SIGNATURE | BOËDA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris Nanterre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9240-711X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1007 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The anthropological sense
Una evolución del pensamiento sobre los artefactos líticos arqueológicos
Este artículo propone una breve revisión histórica y un estado actual de las investigaciones en Sudamérica en torno a los objetos líticos tallados. Particularmente, se evalúa la influencia del pensamiento de la escuela francesa a través de las investigaciones tipológicas y tecnológicas en este sub-continente. En un primer momento, se revisan los aportes de la percepción tipológica del material lítico, y de la racionalidad que le prosiguió con la …
Du minéral à la structure et vice-versa
Techno-logic & Technology
Techno-logic & Technology is an ambitious effort to develop a new framework for studying the development of stone tool technology, with the goal of integrating humanity’s earliest and longest-lasting technology into a comprehensive questioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. Michael Chazan provides a translation of Éric Boëda's authoritative work Techno-logique and Technologie, which draws on the latter's career of res…
Technologic and Technology
Production and Structural Tendency of Levallois Points in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of the Near East Steppe Zones and Arabia
International audience
Tiempo, memoria y alteridad en tecnología lítica
En el campo de los estudios en tecnología lítica prehistórica, el enfoque tecnogenético tiene su origen a fines de los años 1980. Los enfoques tradicionales, de la tipología a la tecnología de producción, tienden a abordar los objetos líticos de la prehistoria a través de sus dimensiones sociocultural y económica, sin realmente considerar la existencia de una tecnogénesis anterior a estas contingencias. La aprehensión de esta dimensión tecnogenét…
The Paleolithic of northwestern Zagros. 2012–2019 MAFGS Survey
Time, memory and alterity in prehistoric lithic technology
The technogenetic approach in the field of prehistoric lithic technology studies originated in the late 1980s. Traditional approaches, such as typology and production technology, have tended to approach prehistoric lithic objects through their socio-cultural and economic dimensions, without really considering the existence of a technogenesis prior to these contingencies. The apprehension of this technogenetic dimension in prehistory will call upo…
Temps, mémoire et altérité en technologie lithique
L'approche technogénétique dans le domaine des études en technologie lithique préhistorique trouve son origine à la fin des années 1980. Les approches traditionnelles comme de la typologie à la technologie productionnelle ont eu tendance à aborder les objets de la préhistoire à travers leurs dimensions socioculturelle et économique, sans vraiment considérer l’existence d’une technogenèse antérieure à ces contingences. L’appréhension de cette dime…
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point
The Pilauco site, in northwestern Chilean Patagonia, presents evidence of human occupation in South America ca. 16,500 cal yr BP. This article presents the techno-functional analysis of a unifacial artifact belonging to a 17,300 cal yr BP level, found in association with five other lithic pieces. Artifacts of this type have long been considered expedient rather than formal or curated pieces. These artifacts remain in the shadow of bifacial pieces…
The First Fishtail Point Find in Piauí State, Northeastern Brazil
Here we report a newly discovered Fishtail, or Fell 1, projectile-point type, from Coronel José Dias, southern Piauí, northeastern Brazil. It is an almost complete bifacial piece on light local silex. In Brazil, Fishtail points have not been previously reported in detail north of the 22° S parallel. Hence, this new evidence importantly establishes human occupation of extreme northeast of South America during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
Formation Processes of the Late Pleistocene Site Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião – Piauí (Brazil)
Archaeological research of late Pleistocene sites in northeastern Brazil has rarely analyzed site formation processes from a geoarchaeological perspective. This has contributed to the long-held debate over the reliability of Pleistocene ages and the anthropic origin of stone tools and combustion features. In this work, we combine high-resolution geoarchaeological methods to study the formation processes of the Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião …
Another “Critique,” Same Old Song
This comment is a brief response to the bibliographic review made by Gómez Coutouly in this issue of PaleoAmerica. We reaffirm that the anthropic nature of the Pleistocene sites in the southeast of Piauí has already been demonstrated. Based on this, we show how many skeptics with mainstream thinking reproduce a scientific ideology regarding the peopling of the Americas
Cobbles, tools, and plants
The Chiquihuite Cave, a Real Novelty? Observations about the Still-ignored South American Prehistory
The recently reported discovery of cultural evidence at Chiquihuite Cave (Zacatecas, Mexico), produced by humans of at least 26,500 calendar years ago, is a major advance in research into early human occupations in the Americas. Thirteen of the 239 lithic artifacts recovered from the SC-C stratigraphic component, dated during and before the Last Glacial Maximum, are illustrated in Ardelean et al. (2020. “Evidence of Human Occupation in Mexico aro…
Lithic Technology, typology and cross-regional comparison of Pleistocene lithic industries
From Stone to Metal
Alteridades técnicas no Brasil Pleistocênico
A presente nota de pesquisa é um sobrevôo de parte do sistema de raciocínios aplicados na avaliação da antropicidade das coleções líticas estudadas no âmbito da atual Missão Franco-Brasileira do Piauí, realizada no Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara (PI). Neste texto, apresentamos, de maneira sucinta, a análise tafonômica, uma ferramenta de pesquisa derivada de avanços teóricos e metodológicos no lascamento experimental, utilizada no estudo de col…
The Cerutti Mastodon Site
The newly reported California discovery of mastodon remains possibly altered by humans more than 130 ka is unprecedented and potentially transformational. It calls for a concerted effort in North and South America to investigate other such ancient contexts that substantially predate the commonly accepted late-glacial timing of the first peopling of the New World
New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America
Sítio do Meio, discovered in the 1990s, showed a sedimentary sequence clearly composed of two sets of deposits separated by a zone of large rockfall from the massive collapse of the shelter's overhang. The bottom set, slightly more than 60 cm thick, was trapped between the bedrock (upon which it rested) and the lower part of the roof fall (reaching more than 1 m in the excavation area), and yielded some charcoal without other archaeological mater…
Macro- and micro-traces of hafting on quartz tools from Pleistocene sites in the Sierra de Capivara in Piaui (Brazil)
O Complexo Arqueológico de Palestina de Goiás/Brasil - uma avaliação dos conjuntos líticos mais antigos em contextualização macrorregional
Neste artigo apresentamos resultados iniciais advindos da retomada de pesquisa arqueológica no município de Palestina de Goiás (Região Arqueológica de Caiapônia). Apesar da expressiva abrangência temática da pesquisa na região, este trabalho foca na variabilidade tecnológica presente nos conjuntos líticos de dois sítios da região: GO-Cp-16 e GO-Cp-17 e seus aspectos geomorfológicos. Esses sítios são relacionados ao período do Holoceno Médio e a c…
Recent discovery of a unique Paleolithic industry from the Yumidong Cave site in the Three Gorges region of Yangtze River, southwest China
The earliest evidence of hominid settlement in China
Identification de chaînes opératoires lithiques du Paléolithique ancien et moyen
La variabilité des systèmes de production lithique du Paléolithique ancien et moyen demeure, tout au moins pour l'Europe occidentale, encore largement fondée sur la succession linéaire, très réductrice, des industries à galets aménagés puis à bifaces (cf. Acheuléen) et, enfin, à débitage d'éclats (cf. Moustérien). L'approche systémique des chaînes opératoires de cette longue période autorise, dans l'état actuel des recherches, l'identification de…
A Levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus)
The hunting methods of the Neanderthals are rarely evident in detail in the archaeological record. Here, the rare and important discovery of a fragment of broken Levallois point, embedded in the neck-bones of a wild ass, provokes plenty of discussion of the methods of hafting and killing game in the Middle Palaeolithic of Syria
Le débitage discoïde et le débitage Levallois récurrent centripède
inevitably all the variability factors inherent to the débitage method used and resulting from human and not mechanical action
Approche de la variabilité des systèmes de production lithique des industries du paléolithique inférieur et moyen
L'analyse technologique d'industries lithiques du Paleolithique inferieur et moyen montre que, contrairement a la vision restrictive qu'offrait l'analyse typologique, ces industries sont techniquement extremement diversifiees et ne peuvent pas etre arbitrairement regroupees. Cette diversite resulte de l'existence de sous-systemes techniques mis en evidence par l'analyse des chaines et schemas operatoires et dont la stabilite repose sur des constr…
A new late Pleistocene archaeological sequence in South America
The date of the first settlement of the Americas remains a contentious subject. Previous claims for very early occupation at Pedra Furada in Brazil were not universally accepted (see Meltzeret al.1994). New work at the rockshelter of Boqueirão da Pedra Furada and at the nearby open-air site of Vale da Pedra Furada have however produced new evidence for human occupation extending back more than 20 000 years. The argument is supported by a series o…
The earliest evidence of hominid settlement in China
New Evidence for Significant Use of Bitumen in Middle Palaeolithic Technical Systems at Umm el Tlel (Syria) around 70,000 BP
Mousterian tools with traces of bitumen on their surfaces discovered at Umm el Tlel (Syria) have been dated to 40,000 years (BP). Until now tools with traces of bitumen were known only from the 8th millennium BC, but this new discovery shows usage 30,000 years earlier. Mousterian complex VI 3, dated to 71,000-72,000 BP, has yielded fragments of black cobbles and eleven Levallois artefacts with traces of black material demonstrated to be bituminou…
Différents modes d'occupation du site d'Umm el Tlel au cours du Paléolithique moyen (El Kowm, Syrie centrale)
Le site d'Umm el Tlel, dans le bassin d'El Kowm en Syrie centrale, présente des occupations allant de la période romaine à l 'Acheuléen. La séquence, actuellement reconnue sur 7 à 8 m d 'épaisseur, a livré près d 'une centaine de niveaux paléolithiques, dont environ 70 appartiennent au Paléolithique moyen récent auquel nous nous intéressons ici. Après un bref exposé du contexte paléoenvironnemental et des aspects taphonomiques, est traité le mode…
Human occupation in South America by 20,000 BC
Middle Palaeolithic bitumen use at Umm el Tlel around 70 000 BP
The authors identify natural bitumen on stone implements dating to 70 000 BP. It is proposed that this represents residue from hafting, taking the practice back a further 30 000 years from the date previously noted and published inNature. The bitumen was tracked to a source 40km away, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and carbon isotopes
Étude technologique et traces d'utilisation des « éclats débordants » de Corbehem (Pas-de-Calais)
Beyries Sylvie, Boëda Eric. Étude technologique et traces d'utilisation des « éclats débordants » de Corbehem (Pas-de-Calais). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 80, n°9, 1983. pp. 275-279
Temps, mémoire et altérité en technologie lithique
L'approche technogénétique dans le domaine des études en technologie lithique préhistorique trouve son origine à la fin des années 1980. Les approches traditionnelles comme de la typologie à la technologie productionnelle ont eu tendance à aborder les objets de la préhistoire à travers leurs dimensions socioculturelle et économique, sans vraiment considérer l’existence d’une technogenèse antérieure à ces contingences. L’appréhension de cette dime…
Recent discovery of a unique Paleolithic industry from the Yumidong Cave site in the Three Gorges region of Yangtze River, southwest China
Un éclat de silex moustérien coincé dans un bassin d’autruche (Struthio camelus) à Umm el Tlel (Syrie centrale)
Les recherches menées depuis 1991 sur le site d’Umm el Tlel (Syrie centrale) ont livré d’abondants niveaux moustériens. Ces techno-complexes se caractérisent par une excellente conservation des sols d’occupations ainsi que des vestiges lithiques et osseux qu’ils contiennent. En outre, de nombreuses découvertes telles que des pièces bitumées ou encore des éclats de silex fi chés dans des os sont mises au jour chaque année. En 2005, la couche VI3d’…
Macro- and micro-traces of hafting on quartz tools from Pleistocene sites in the Sierra de Capivara in Piaui (Brazil)
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point
The Pilauco site, in northwestern Chilean Patagonia, presents evidence of human occupation in South America ca. 16,500 cal yr BP. This article presents the techno-functional analysis of a unifacial artifact belonging to a 17,300 cal yr BP level, found in association with five other lithic pieces. Artifacts of this type have long been considered expedient rather than formal or curated pieces. These artifacts remain in the shadow of bifacial pieces…
From Stone to Metal
The First Fishtail Point Find in Piauí State, Northeastern Brazil
Here we report a newly discovered Fishtail, or Fell 1, projectile-point type, from Coronel José Dias, southern Piauí, northeastern Brazil. It is an almost complete bifacial piece on light local silex. In Brazil, Fishtail points have not been previously reported in detail north of the 22° S parallel. Hence, this new evidence importantly establishes human occupation of extreme northeast of South America during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
The Chiquihuite Cave, a Real Novelty? Observations about the Still-ignored South American Prehistory
The recently reported discovery of cultural evidence at Chiquihuite Cave (Zacatecas, Mexico), produced by humans of at least 26,500 calendar years ago, is a major advance in research into early human occupations in the Americas. Thirteen of the 239 lithic artifacts recovered from the SC-C stratigraphic component, dated during and before the Last Glacial Maximum, are illustrated in Ardelean et al. (2020. “Evidence of Human Occupation in Mexico aro…
Production and Structural Tendency of Levallois Points in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of the Near East Steppe Zones and Arabia
International audience
Time, memory and alterity in prehistoric lithic technology
The technogenetic approach in the field of prehistoric lithic technology studies originated in the late 1980s. Traditional approaches, such as typology and production technology, have tended to approach prehistoric lithic objects through their socio-cultural and economic dimensions, without really considering the existence of a technogenesis prior to these contingencies. The apprehension of this technogenetic dimension in prehistory will call upo…
Cobbles, tools, and plants
O Complexo Arqueológico de Palestina de Goiás/Brasil - uma avaliação dos conjuntos líticos mais antigos em contextualização macrorregional
Neste artigo apresentamos resultados iniciais advindos da retomada de pesquisa arqueológica no município de Palestina de Goiás (Região Arqueológica de Caiapônia). Apesar da expressiva abrangência temática da pesquisa na região, este trabalho foca na variabilidade tecnológica presente nos conjuntos líticos de dois sítios da região: GO-Cp-16 e GO-Cp-17 e seus aspectos geomorfológicos. Esses sítios são relacionados ao período do Holoceno Médio e a c…
Another “Critique,” Same Old Song
This comment is a brief response to the bibliographic review made by Gómez Coutouly in this issue of PaleoAmerica. We reaffirm that the anthropic nature of the Pleistocene sites in the southeast of Piauí has already been demonstrated. Based on this, we show how many skeptics with mainstream thinking reproduce a scientific ideology regarding the peopling of the Americas
The Cerutti Mastodon Site
The newly reported California discovery of mastodon remains possibly altered by humans more than 130 ka is unprecedented and potentially transformational. It calls for a concerted effort in North and South America to investigate other such ancient contexts that substantially predate the commonly accepted late-glacial timing of the first peopling of the New World
L'abri orné des Louveries à Saclas (Essonne)
Boeda E. L'abri orné des Louveries à Saclas (Essonne). In: Gallia préhistoire, tome 20, fascicule 2, 1977. pp. 343-347
Étude technologique et traces d'utilisation des « éclats débordants » de Corbehem (Pas-de-Calais)
Beyries Sylvie, Boëda Eric. Étude technologique et traces d'utilisation des « éclats débordants » de Corbehem (Pas-de-Calais). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 80, n°9, 1983. pp. 275-279
Une expérience intéressante
Identification de chaînes opératoires lithiques du Paléolithique ancien et moyen
La variabilité des systèmes de production lithique du Paléolithique ancien et moyen demeure, tout au moins pour l'Europe occidentale, encore largement fondée sur la succession linéaire, très réductrice, des industries à galets aménagés puis à bifaces (cf. Acheuléen) et, enfin, à débitage d'éclats (cf. Moustérien). L'approche systémique des chaînes opératoires de cette longue période autorise, dans l'état actuel des recherches, l'identification de…
Approche de la variabilité des systèmes de production lithique des industries du paléolithique inférieur et moyen
L'analyse technologique d'industries lithiques du Paleolithique inferieur et moyen montre que, contrairement a la vision restrictive qu'offrait l'analyse typologique, ces industries sont techniquement extremement diversifiees et ne peuvent pas etre arbitrairement regroupees. Cette diversite resulte de l'existence de sous-systemes techniques mis en evidence par l'analyse des chaines et schemas operatoires et dont la stabilite repose sur des constr…
Le débitage discoïde et le débitage Levallois récurrent centripède
inevitably all the variability factors inherent to the débitage method used and resulting from human and not mechanical action
Bitumen as a hafting material on Middle Palaeolithic artefacts
Une industrie solutréenne dans le Bergeracois
Le Solutréen qui est omniprésent en Périgord, en Charente et dans le Lot s'avérait jusqu'à présent totalement absent du Bergeracois où tout le Paléolithique est cependant représenté. La découverte récente d'un assemblage de pointes à cran indubitablement de type et de facture solutréens, aménagées à la pression, vient démentir ce point de vue
A Levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus)
The hunting methods of the Neanderthals are rarely evident in detail in the archaeological record. Here, the rare and important discovery of a fragment of broken Levallois point, embedded in the neck-bones of a wild ass, provokes plenty of discussion of the methods of hafting and killing game in the Middle Palaeolithic of Syria
Différents modes d'occupation du site d'Umm el Tlel au cours du Paléolithique moyen (El Kowm, Syrie centrale)
Le site d'Umm el Tlel, dans le bassin d'El Kowm en Syrie centrale, présente des occupations allant de la période romaine à l 'Acheuléen. La séquence, actuellement reconnue sur 7 à 8 m d 'épaisseur, a livré près d 'une centaine de niveaux paléolithiques, dont environ 70 appartiennent au Paléolithique moyen récent auquel nous nous intéressons ici. Après un bref exposé du contexte paléoenvironnemental et des aspects taphonomiques, est traité le mode…
Magnetostratigraphic dating of the Donggutuo and Maliang Paleolithic sites in the Nihewan Basin, North China
A detailed magnetostratigraphic investigation, coupled with rock-magnetic studies, was carried out on a lacustrine sequence in the eastern Nihewan Basin, Northern China, which contains the Donggutuo and Maliang Paleolithic sites. Magnetite and hematite were identified as the main carriers for the characteristic remanent magnetizations. Magnetostratigraphic results show that the lacustrine sequence recorded the late Matuyama and Brunhes chrons. Fu…
L’occupation de l’Aurignacien Ancien De Barbas III (Creysse, Dordogne)
Le présent article a comme objectif de définir, à partir des premiers résultats obtenus par le croisement des données technologiques, fonctionnelles et spatiales, le statut techno-économique de l’occupation de plein air aurignacien ancien de Barbas III.Le site de Barbas III est localisé sur la commune de Creysse, sur la rive gauche de la Dordogne. La stratigraphie comprend un niveau Moustérien de Tradition Acheuléenne daté de 38 300 ± 500 B.P. et…
Un éclat de silex moustérien coincé dans un bassin d’autruche (Struthio camelus) à Umm el Tlel (Syrie centrale)
Les recherches menées depuis 1991 sur le site d’Umm el Tlel (Syrie centrale) ont livré d’abondants niveaux moustériens. Ces techno-complexes se caractérisent par une excellente conservation des sols d’occupations ainsi que des vestiges lithiques et osseux qu’ils contiennent. En outre, de nombreuses découvertes telles que des pièces bitumées ou encore des éclats de silex fi chés dans des os sont mises au jour chaque année. En 2005, la couche VI3d’…
New Evidence for Significant Use of Bitumen in Middle Palaeolithic Technical Systems at Umm el Tlel (Syria) around 70,000 BP
Mousterian tools with traces of bitumen on their surfaces discovered at Umm el Tlel (Syria) have been dated to 40,000 years (BP). Until now tools with traces of bitumen were known only from the 8th millennium BC, but this new discovery shows usage 30,000 years earlier. Mousterian complex VI 3, dated to 71,000-72,000 BP, has yielded fragments of black cobbles and eleven Levallois artefacts with traces of black material demonstrated to be bituminou…
Middle Palaeolithic bitumen use at Umm el Tlel around 70 000 BP
The authors identify natural bitumen on stone implements dating to 70 000 BP. It is proposed that this represents residue from hafting, taking the practice back a further 30 000 years from the date previously noted and published inNature. The bitumen was tracked to a source 40km away, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and carbon isotopes
Un exemple moustérien de haltes de chasse au dromadaire
Le site d’Umm el Tlel, dans le bassin d’El Kowm en Syrie centrale, se caractérise, d’une part, par une importante séquence stratigraphique, allant de la période romaine à l’Acheuléen, et d’autre part, par la qualité exceptionnelle des vestiges retrouvés, en particulier pour la période moustérienne. L’existence d’une telle séquence au sein des marges steppiques s’explique par la présence permanente de l’eau.La richesse de ces vestiges recueillis t…
A Mousterian Dromedary Hunting Camp
The site of Umm el Tlel, located in the El Kowm basin in Central Syria, contains a long stratigraphic sequence extending from the Roman period to the Acheulean. The artifacts exceptional well preserved, particularly for the Mousterian. The existence of such a sequence on the steppe margins can be explained by the permanent presence of water.The abundant artifacts collected throughout the Mousterian sequence have permitted us to show that there wa…
Introduction à l’étude du site de Longgupo
Étude du site de Longgupo – Synthèse
Analyse des artefacts lithiques du site de Longgupo
Le site de Longgupo dans son environnement géologique et géomorphologique
Données stratigraphiques, archéologiques et insertion chronologique de la séquence de Longgupo
New Evidence concerning the Neolithisation Process of the Central Syrian Desert
L’article expose la découverte, la prospection et le sondage d’une concentration de petits sites (campsites) précéramiques placés dans une situation stratégique autour d’un passage entre le bassin de Douara et la steppe aride du Nord de la Syrie. Les résultats apportent une meilleure connaissance de la période néolithique dans cette région, ainsi que de nouvelles perspectives sur l’hétérogénéité des processus de néolithisation. Ils contribuent ég…
Human occupation in South America by 20,000 BC
Cross-Dating (Th/U- 14 C) of Calcite Covering Prehistoric Paintings at Serra da Capivara National Park, Piaui, Brazil
The question of when the first humans arrived in the New World has been a bone of contention for several decades. Similarly, the age of rock paintings has been heatedly debated. Settlements in the Serra da Capivara National Park have been dated to between 5 kyr and >50 kyr, which is far older than the Clovis barrier. Moreover, calcite formation on a rock-wall painting in a rockshelter yielded thermoluminescence (TL) and electron paramagnetic reso…
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