André Debenath
Biographic Data
| ID | 86560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | André Debenath |
| GIVEN NAMES | André |
| FAMILY NAME | Debenath |
| SIGNATURE | DEBENATH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Perpignan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 469 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Dating the Middle Paleolithic deposits of La Quina Amont (Charente, France) using luminescence methods
Initial insights into Aterian hunter–gatherer settlements on coastal landscapes
Handbook of Paleolithic Typology
This book presents the major tool types of European Lower and Middle Paleolithic. Building on the typelist of the late Francois Bordes, with many forms that have been recognized since, it presents working definitions of the types with illustrations and discussions of the variability inherent to lithic typologies. The authors combine classic typological views with current notions of lithic typological variation. This handbook represents not only a…
Analyse comparative structurale des diaphyses fémorales néandertaliennes BD 5 (MIS 5e) et CDV-Tour 1 (MIS 3) de La Chaise-de-Vouthon, Charente, France
Les diaphyses fémorales néandertaliennes BD 5 (MIS 5e), représentant un jeune adulte de sexe féminin, et CDV-Tour 1 (MIS 3), un sujet adulte de sexe masculin, proviennent tous les deux du site de La Chaise-de-Vouthon, en Charente, mais sont séparées d’environ 80 000 ans. Dans le but de mettre en évidence d’éventuels changements évolutifs de nature morpho-structurelle au cours de ce laps de temps, nous présentons ici l’analyse comparative de leur …
Comparative structural analysis of the Neanderthal femoral shafts BD 5 (MIS 5e) and CDV-Tour 1 (MIS 3) from La Chaise-de- Vouthon, Charente, France
Les diaphyses fémorales néandertaliennes BD 5 (MIS 5e), représentant un jeune adulte de sexe féminin, et CDV-Tour 1 (MIS 3), un sujet adulte de sexe masculin, proviennent tous les deux du site de La Chaise-de-Vouthon, en Charente, mais sont séparées d’environ 80 000 ans. Dans le but de mettre en évidence d’éventuels changements évolutifs de nature morpho-structurelle au cours de ce laps de temps, nous présentons ici l’analyse comparative de leur …
Processus de formation des sites et concept du Tayacien
Datation par ESR-U/th combinées de dents fossiles des grottes d’El Mnasra et d’El Harhoura 2, région de Rabat-Temara. Implications chronologiques sur le peuplement du Maroc atlantique au Pléistocène s…
La région de Témara, près de Rabat, abrite plusieurs sites archéologiques et paléontologiques d’une importance majeure pour la Préhistoire du Maroc et du nord de l’Afrique. Les découvertes de restes humains paléolithiques associés à des industries atériennes et du Paléolithique supérieur à Dar es Soltane 2, El Harhoura 1 et aux Contrebandiers, dans les années 1970, ont renforcé l’intérêt des sites de la région de Témara. Deux grottes ont fait l’o…
Single-grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco
Introduction and Background
INTRODUCTION This monograph reports on excavations carried out in the Cave of Fontéchevade (Charente, France) in the Universities of Pennsylvania and Perpignan from 1994 through 1998. The site had been excavated sporadically since the late nineteenth century, but is best known from the work of Germaine Henri-Martin (1957) conducted from 1937 to 1954. In total, these earlier excavations uncovered a very small Châtelperronian assemblage, along with…
Summary and Conclusions
This monograph reports the results of new excavations at Fonté-chevade, one of the most important and best-known Paleolithic sites in Western Europe. The new excavations, which took place between 1994 and 1998, followed those of Germaine Henri-Martin, who worked there for many years during the middle part of the twentieth century. Although the meticulous reporting by Henri-Martin and her collaborators on the site's fossils and archaeological indu…
Processes of Site Formation and Their Implications
When Henri-Martin interpreted the data from her excavations at Fontéchevade, she did not have the benefit of the huge body of research into site-formation processes and lithic and faunal taphonomy that has developed since that time. The findings of this research, as well as the methods that were developed to investigate them, were fundamental to our interpretation of the site and of material from both her excavations and ours. This chapter descri…
Description of the Lithic Industries
INTRODUCTION This chapter presents the basic descriptive data on the lithic assemblages from Fontéchevade. The presentation is organized according to four distinct groups of assemblages, which in fact are not related stratigraphically one to the other. The first group of assemblages is the collection excavated by Henri-Martin, which is now housed at the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in St. Germain-en-Laye. As described in earlier chapters, this m…
The Fauna from Henri-Martin's Excavation of Bed E
Almost 50 years after its publication by Arambourg (1958), the large mammal fauna of the “Tayacian” bed of Fontéchevade merits reanalysis in light of our current knowledge. Even though it was collected with minimal data concerning provenience, the collection remains a precious source of information concerning paleoenvironment, paleontology, taphonomy, and, above all, biostratigraphy. This chapter presents only the essential results that permitted…
Foreword by Anta Montet-White
In 1994, the authors of this book undertook new excavations at the Cave of Fontéchevade, a site best known for its human remains and the uncommon artifact assemblages recovered by Germaine Henri-Martin in the 1950s. Henri Vallois attributed the skull fragments to an early form of Homo sapiens, which he designated as presapiens, and the artifact assemblages associated with them were labeled “Tayacian” by Henri Breuil, who had also confirmed the re…
The Upper Paleolithic of Fontéchevade
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND This chapter describes some of the Upper Paleolithic lithic material recovered from Fontéchevade during the early part of the twentieth century. Upper Paleolithic remains, in varying amounts and from both inside and outside the cave, had been noted by several excavators. The first to uncover these industries was L. Durousseau-Dugontier, between 1902 and 1910, but unfortunately his results were never published and his excavat…
Two new hominin cranial fragments from the Mousterian levels at La Quina (Charente, France)
Cave of Fontechevade The
of the discoveries made during the course of excavations at the Paleolithic cave site of Fontéchevade, France, between 1994 and 1998. The excavation team address major problems raised by earlier excavations at the site from 1937 to 1954. These earlier excavations produced two sets of problematic data : first, the Lower Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Tayacian, that differs in fundamental ways from other contemporary industries, second, the h…
Palaeolithic and Neolithic Occupations in the Témara Region (Rabat, Morocco)
New dates for the Fontéchevade (Charente, France) Homo remains
How Neanderthal molar teeth grew
Une nouvelle grotte ornée en Charente
Boulestin Bruno, Debénath André, Gomez de Soto José, Tournepiche Jean-François. Une nouvelle grotte ornée en Charente : l’aven du Charnier à Vilhonneur. Historique d’une découverte. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 103, n°1, 2006. pp. 172-174
La grotte Marcel Clouet à Cognac (Charente)
A Standardized Method for the Description and the Study of Coprolites
À propos d'un poinçon provenant de la grotte des Fées à Châtelperron
Debénath André, Chase Philip G., Dibble Harold Lewis. À propos d'un poinçon provenant de la grotte des Fées à Châtelperron. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 99, n°2, 2002. pp. 378-379
Le peuplement préhistorique du Maroc
Handbook of Paleolithic Typology
This book presents the major tool types of European Lower and Middle Paleolithic. Building on the typelist of the late Francois Bordes, with many forms that have been recognized since, it presents working definitions of the types with illustrations and discussions of the variability inherent to lithic typologies. The authors combine classic typological views with current notions of lithic typological variation. This handbook represents not only a…
Single-grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco
Palaeolithic and Neolithic Occupations in the Témara Region (Rabat, Morocco)
Observations on the Lower Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]
The "chopper-chopping-tool tradition" proposed by Movius in 1948 as a characterization of Lower Palaeolithic assemblage variability in East Asia is here examined and rejected. It is argued that its uncritical acceptance in the Western literature has resulted in an inaccurate perception of technological variability and change in this vast region. A brief summary of recent primary source material clearly indicates (1) that there are variable quanti…
Absolute dating of hominids and palaeolithic artifacts of the cave of La Chaise-de-Vouthon (Charente), France
Initial insights into Aterian hunter–gatherer settlements on coastal landscapes
A Standardized Method for the Description and the Study of Coprolites
Dating the Middle Paleolithic deposits of La Quina Amont (Charente, France) using luminescence methods
Taphonomy and Zooarchaeology of a Mousterian Faunal Assemblage from La Quina, Charente, France
The 1986 excavations at the Mousterian site of La Quina, Charente, France included a witness section left intact by an earlier researcher, Germaine Henri-Martin. Zooarchaeological study of material from this witness section was designed to evaluate the effects of a number of different natural and human factors. This analysis demonstrated that the assemblage was actually the product of a number of different processes, some natural and some human, …
Datation par ESR-U/th combinées de dents fossiles des grottes d’El Mnasra et d’El Harhoura 2, région de Rabat-Temara. Implications chronologiques sur le peuplement du Maroc atlantique au Pléistocène s…
La région de Témara, près de Rabat, abrite plusieurs sites archéologiques et paléontologiques d’une importance majeure pour la Préhistoire du Maroc et du nord de l’Afrique. Les découvertes de restes humains paléolithiques associés à des industries atériennes et du Paléolithique supérieur à Dar es Soltane 2, El Harhoura 1 et aux Contrebandiers, dans les années 1970, ont renforcé l’intérêt des sites de la région de Témara. Deux grottes ont fait l’o…
Conclusion
Amino acid racemization in mammalian bones and teeth from La Chaise‐de‐Vouthon (Charente), France
A controlled test of the amino acid dating method as it is currently being applied to bones and teeth was attempted for the time range 100‐250 ka, beyond that of 14 C, at the archeological site of La Chaise‐de‐Vouthon (Charente, France). In Bourgeois‐Delaunay, mammal fossils associated with Paleolithic artifacts were collected from layers dated at 101 ± 12 to 114 ± 7 ka by 230 Th/ 230 dating of the over‐ and underlying stalagmitic floors. Racemiz…
Position statigraphique des restes humains antewurmiens de Charente
Debenath A. Position statigraphique des restes humains antewurmiens de Charente. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIII° Série. Tome 1 fascicule 4, 1974. pp. 417-426
The latest finds of Antewürmian human remains in Charente (France)
Stratigraphie
Two new hominin cranial fragments from the Mousterian levels at La Quina (Charente, France)
Les équidés du Pléistocène supérieur de la grotte Zouhrah à El Harhoura, Maroc [The equidae from upper Pleistocene of Zouhrah cave of El Harhoura, Morocco]
La grotte Zouhrah à El Harhoura au Maroc a livré une faune de mammifères très riche en taxons (plus de trente espèces) et en nombre d'individus, associée à une industrie lithique atérienne. Les fossiles d'équidés se rapportent à deux espèces bien distinctes qui ont coexisté dans le site. L'une est un vrai cheval, de grande taille qui présente des caractères caballins et des affinités avec Equus algericus. L'autre, de petite taille et de morpholog…
Comparative structural analysis of the Neanderthal femoral shafts BD 5 (MIS 5e) and CDV-Tour 1 (MIS 3) from La Chaise-de- Vouthon, Charente, France
Les diaphyses fémorales néandertaliennes BD 5 (MIS 5e), représentant un jeune adulte de sexe féminin, et CDV-Tour 1 (MIS 3), un sujet adulte de sexe masculin, proviennent tous les deux du site de La Chaise-de-Vouthon, en Charente, mais sont séparées d’environ 80 000 ans. Dans le but de mettre en évidence d’éventuels changements évolutifs de nature morpho-structurelle au cours de ce laps de temps, nous présentons ici l’analyse comparative de leur …
New dates for the Fontéchevade (Charente, France) Homo remains
Gisement chalcolithique de l'Enclos à Tonnay-Charente (Charente-Maritime)
Debénath André, Flies Jean-François, Pautreau Jean-Pierre. Gisement chalcolithique de l'Enclos à Tonnay-Charente (Charente-Maritime). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 81, n°4, 1984. pp. 117-121
On New Models for the Neanderthal Debate
Note préliminaire sur la stratigraphie de la grotte Marcel Clouet à Cognac (Charente)
Debenath A. Note préliminaire sur la stratigraphie de la grotte Marcel Clouet à Cognac (Charente). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. Comptes rendus des séances mensuelles, tome 68, n°5, 1971. pp. 133-135
Nouvelles fouilles à Dar Es-Soltane, note préliminaire
Debenath A. Nouvelles fouilles à Dar Es-Soltane, note préliminaire. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. Comptes rendus des séances mensuelles, tome 69, n°6, 1972. pp. 178-179
Position statigraphique des restes humains antewurmiens de Charente
Debenath A. Position statigraphique des restes humains antewurmiens de Charente. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIII° Série. Tome 1 fascicule 4, 1974. pp. 417-426
La Grotte de Dar-es-Soltane II à Rabat (Maroc). Géologie et préhistoire
Debenath André. La Grotte de Dar-es-Soltane II à Rabat (Maroc). Géologie et préhistoire. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIII° Série. Tome 3 fascicule 2, 1976. pp. 181-182
The latest finds of Antewürmian human remains in Charente (France)
Mesure de la saillie fessière par le glutéomètre
Wangermez J.,Debenath A.,Lacombe J. P.,Labrousse Ph. Mesure de la saillie fessière par le glutéomètre. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIII° Série. Tome 7 fascicule 3, 1980. pp. 187-204
Absolute dating of hominids and palaeolithic artifacts of the cave of La Chaise-de-Vouthon (Charente), France
Observations on the Lower Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]
The "chopper-chopping-tool tradition" proposed by Movius in 1948 as a characterization of Lower Palaeolithic assemblage variability in East Asia is here examined and rejected. It is argued that its uncritical acceptance in the Western literature has resulted in an inaccurate perception of technological variability and change in this vast region. A brief summary of recent primary source material clearly indicates (1) that there are variable quanti…
Gisement chalcolithique de l'Enclos à Tonnay-Charente (Charente-Maritime)
Debénath André, Flies Jean-François, Pautreau Jean-Pierre. Gisement chalcolithique de l'Enclos à Tonnay-Charente (Charente-Maritime). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 81, n°4, 1984. pp. 117-121
Amino acid racemization in mammalian bones and teeth from La Chaise‐de‐Vouthon (Charente), France
A controlled test of the amino acid dating method as it is currently being applied to bones and teeth was attempted for the time range 100‐250 ka, beyond that of 14 C, at the archeological site of La Chaise‐de‐Vouthon (Charente, France). In Bourgeois‐Delaunay, mammal fossils associated with Paleolithic artifacts were collected from layers dated at 101 ± 12 to 114 ± 7 ka by 230 Th/ 230 dating of the over‐ and underlying stalagmitic floors. Racemiz…
On New Models for the Neanderthal Debate
Taphonomy and Zooarchaeology of a Mousterian Faunal Assemblage from La Quina, Charente, France
The 1986 excavations at the Mousterian site of La Quina, Charente, France included a witness section left intact by an earlier researcher, Germaine Henri-Martin. Zooarchaeological study of material from this witness section was designed to evaluate the effects of a number of different natural and human factors. This analysis demonstrated that the assemblage was actually the product of a number of different processes, some natural and some human, …
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans
Identification of the last glacial maximum in the Upper Paleolithic of Portugal using magnetic susceptibility measurements of Caldeirão Cave sediments
We have sampled Upper and Middle Paleolithic sediments in Caldeirão Cave, Portugal, for paleoclimatic analysis. This work involved measuring magnetic susceptibility (MS) on continuous vertical profiles of a series of ∼8 cc sediment samples, and using the MS data as a paleoclimate proxy. Previous work has shown that caves can be ideal recorders of paleoclimatic variations because they are protected environments. Pedogenesis outside the cave during…
Identification of the last glacial maximum in the Upper Paleolithic of Portugal using magnetic susceptibility measurements of Caldeirão Cave sediments
We have sampled Upper and Middle Paleolithic sediments in Caldeirão Cave, Portugal, for paleoclimatic analysis. This work involved measuring magnetic susceptibility (MS) on continuous vertical profiles of a series of ∼8 cc sediment samples, and using the MS data as a paleoclimate proxy. Previous work has shown that caves can be ideal recorders of paleoclimatic variations because they are protected environments. Pedogenesis outside the cave during…
Stratigraphie
Fouilles anciennes et occupation de l'espace
Debénath André. Fouilles anciennes et occupation de l'espace. In: Gallia préhistoire, tome 40, 1998. pp. 37-38
Conclusion
Les équidés du Pléistocène supérieur de la grotte Zouhrah à El Harhoura, Maroc [The equidae from upper Pleistocene of Zouhrah cave of El Harhoura, Morocco]
La grotte Zouhrah à El Harhoura au Maroc a livré une faune de mammifères très riche en taxons (plus de trente espèces) et en nombre d'individus, associée à une industrie lithique atérienne. Les fossiles d'équidés se rapportent à deux espèces bien distinctes qui ont coexisté dans le site. L'une est un vrai cheval, de grande taille qui présente des caractères caballins et des affinités avec Equus algericus. L'autre, de petite taille et de morpholog…
Le peuplement préhistorique du Maroc
À propos d'un poinçon provenant de la grotte des Fées à Châtelperron
Debénath André, Chase Philip G., Dibble Harold Lewis. À propos d'un poinçon provenant de la grotte des Fées à Châtelperron. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 99, n°2, 2002. pp. 378-379
La grotte Marcel Clouet à Cognac (Charente)
A Standardized Method for the Description and the Study of Coprolites
How Neanderthal molar teeth grew
Une nouvelle grotte ornée en Charente
Boulestin Bruno, Debénath André, Gomez de Soto José, Tournepiche Jean-François. Une nouvelle grotte ornée en Charente : l’aven du Charnier à Vilhonneur. Historique d’une découverte. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 103, n°1, 2006. pp. 172-174
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