Randall White
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3580994 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Randall White |
| PRENOMES | Randall |
| SOBRENOME | White |
| ASSINATURA | WHITE R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3473-7353 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 535 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Sous-le-Roc (Saint-Léon-Sur-Vézère, Dordogne)
Dans le registre archéologique, le lieu-dit Sous-le-Roc (Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, Dordogne), qui s’étend sur plus de 200 m, est connu depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, période à laquelle A. Reverdit constate la présence de différentes occupations le long de la falaise et y entreprend les premières fouilles. Quelques dizaines d’années plus tard, D. Peyrony y effectue de nouvelles recherches, limitées, qui lui permettent de mettre au jour un ensemble ass…
A new Palaeolithic female figurine from Piatra Neamț, Romania
L’histoire de La Balutie, un gisement oublié, voisin de Lascaux et de Regourdou
Cette contribution a pour objet de retranscrire l’histoire du site paléolithique de La Balutie (Montignac-Lascaux, Dordogne, France). L’histoire de ce site très tôt oublié, n’est ni sensationnelle, ni exceptionnelle, mais s’avère retranscrire l’atmosphère caractérisant les débuts des explorations des gisements préhistoriques de Dordogne. On y retrouve de grands noms de la Préhistoire de Dordogne qui n’ont légué que peu d’écrits sur le site, du mo…
L’imagerie féminine du paléolithique
Cet article présente une description et une analyse des quinze statuettes paléolithiques de la collection Grimaldi. Dans la première partie de leur article, les auteurs évaluent les différentes hypothèses qui ont été proposées pour expliquer la signification des figurines féminines du Paléolithique. Dans la seconde partie de leur texte, ils s’attachent à trouver une explication qui prendrait en compte le contexte culturel de fabrication, d’utilis…
Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art
Newly discovered Aurignacian engraved blocks from Abri Cellier
A new Aurignacian engraving from Abri Blanchard, France
Answer to “Comment on Uranium-thorium dating method and Palaeolithic rock art” by Sauvet et al. (2015, in press) by Pons-Branchu E. et al
Uranium–thorium dating method and Palaeolithic rock art
Technologies for the Control of Heat and Light in the Vézère Valley Aurignacian
We can trace the beginnings of our knowledge of early Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian) use of fire to the pioneering 1910-1911 excavations at Abri Blanchard undertaken by Louis Didon and Marcel Castanet. At Blanchard, the excavators recognized and described fire structures that correspond in many ways to features excavated more recently in Western and Central Europe. Here, we address the issue of heat and light management in the early Upper Paleol…
Le site aurignacien de l’abri de la Souquette (commune de Sergeac, Dordogne)
De nos jours, l’abri de la Souquette est peu connu par rapport aux sites voisins de l’abri Castanet et de l’abri Blanchard. La longue histoire des recherches à l’abri de la Souquette n’a pas abouti à une compréhension approfondie de ce site ayant livré des dépôts aurignaciens considérables, mais plutôt à une sorte d’obscurité savante dans laquelle le site est considéré comme étant dépourvu de potentiel dans le domaine de la recherche. Dans cette …
Early and Archaic Aurignacian Personal Ornaments from Isturitz Cave
Recent excavations at Isturitz Cave by Christian Normand have yielded a rich assemblage of Aurignacian personal ornaments in chronostratigraphic context. Here, we present the first study of this corpus, focusing on the techniques used for perforating teeth; the chronological variation in the selection of animal teeth (and one human tooth); the raw materials used for the beads and pendants (amber, ivory, talc, bone); data concerning local personal…
Les parures de l’Aurignacien ancien et archaïque de la grotte d’Isturitz
Les fouilles récentes menées par Christian Normand à la grotte d’Isturitz ont livré un riche ensemble d’objets de parure aurignaciens en contexte chrono-stratigraphique. Nous présentons ici une première étude de ce corpus en focalisant sur les techniques d’aménagement des dents perforées ; la variation chronologique dans la sélection des dents animales (et une dent humaine) ; les matières premières employées pour les perles et pendeloques (ambre,…
The Aurignacian Site of the Abri de la Souquette (commune de Sergeac, Dordogne)
The Abri de la Souquette is little known today when compared with the neighboring sites of Abri Castanet and Abri Blanchard. A long history of investigation at the Abri de la Souquette has led not to a wider understanding of a site with significant Aurignacian deposits, but rather to scholarly obscurity as a site devoid of further research potential. In this paper, we attempt to lift some of this obscurity by chronicling the history of research a…
Pratiques symboliques aurignaciennes en abri-sous-roche dans la vallée de la Vézère
Depuis 2007, la reprise de l’étude des surfaces ornées des sites aurignaciens de Blanchard et de Castanet, dans le cadre de fouilles programmées dirigées par R. White permet aujourd’hui, d’aborder l’un des témoignages les plus anciens d’art rupestre dans son contexte culturel, chronologique et environnemental. L’analyse de ses caractéristiques artistiques, tant formelles que techniques, au sein de ses propres contextes archéologiques, mise en per…
Early Aurignacian Graphic Arts in the Vézère Valley
Since 2007, programmed excavations directed by R. White in the Aurignacian sites of Blanchard and Castanet have resulted in renewed studies of graphic representations and have led to a new approach to some of the earliest parietal art from a cultural, chronological and environmental perspective. The analysis of the formal and technical artistic characteristics within each archeological context as part of all the known representations on limestone…
F-content variation in mammoth ivory from Aurignacian contexts
Which Aurignacians were at Abri Blanchard (Sergeac, Dordogne, France)? Data from bone and antler artifacts in American collections and from new field operations
En 1910, M. Castanet sous la direction de L. Didon entamait les fouilles de l’abri Blanchard (Sergeac, Dordogne). Deux niveaux archéologiques séparés par une couche stérile seront individualisés et attribués à l’Aurignacien moyen sensu H. Breuil (soit Aurignacien I à pointe à base fendue). L’abri Blanchard fait partie des deux ou trois sites ayant livré les plus riches ensembles en matières osseuses pour cette période. Il recèle un important pote…
Uranium-series dating of carbonate formations overlying Paleolithic art
The Uranium-Thorium (U/ Th) series dating method, developed 50 years ago, has proven its usefulness and reliability for the dating of marine (corals) and continental (speleothems) secondary carbonates deposits. Recently, improvements of the analytical techniques (TIMS – Thermo-Ionization Mass Spectrometry, and then MC-ICPMS – Multicollector-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy and laser ablation) allow the dating of very small samples and…
Quel(s) Aurignacien(s) à l’abri Blanchard (Sergeac, Dordogne, France) ? Données des collections d’industrie osseuse conservées aux États-Unis et retour sur le terrain
En 1910, M. Castanet sous la direction de L. Didon entamait les fouilles de l’abri Blanchard (Sergeac, Dordogne). Deux niveaux archéologiques séparés par une couche stérile seront individualisés et attribués à l’Aurignacien moyen sensu H. Breuil (soit Aurignacien I à pointe à base fendue). L’abri Blanchard fait partie des deux ou trois sites ayant livré les plus riches ensembles en matières osseuses pour cette période. Il recèle un important pote…
Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition
Journal Article Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition Get access Jean M. Yarbrough. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. xiv, 337 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1234–1235, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau078 Published: 01 March 2014
The manufacture of Aurignacian split-based points
Context and dating of Aurignacian vulvar representations from Abri Castanet, France
We report here on the 2007 discovery, in perfect archaeological context, of part of the engraved and ocre-stained undersurface of the collapsed rockshelter ceiling from Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. The decorated surface of the 1.5-t roof-collapse block was in direct contact with the exposed archaeological surface onto which it fell. Because there was no sedimentation between the engraved surface and the archaeological layer upon which it coll…
Une nouvelle découverte d’art pariétal aurignacien in situ à l’abri Castanet (Dordogne, France)
En 2007, un fragment de voûte ornée a été découvert, sur le site de l’abri Castanet (commune de Sergeac, Dordogne) lors des opérations archéologiques ce qui n’était plus arrivé depuis 1912 (fouilles de M. Castanet pour L. Didon). La face profondément gravée et peinte de ce bloc d’effondrement, pesant plus d’une tonne, était en contact direct avec la couche archéologique aurignacienne. Une série de six datations par 14C AMS (par filtration molécul…
Context and dating of newly discovered Aurignacian rock art from Abri Castanet (Dordogne, France)
In this paper we report on the discovery in 2007 in archaeological context, of part of the engraved and ocher-stained undersurface of the rockshelter ceiling from Abri Castanet, Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne. The engraved/painted undersurface of the massive roof-collapse block, weighing more than a ton, was in direct contact with the surface of the early Aurignacian archaeological layer onto which it had fallen. A series of six molecular filtratio…
Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition [and Comments and Replies]
This paper critically examines previous statements concerning the nature of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition in Western Europe. Mellars's overview of the transition in southwestern France forms the point of departure for discussion. Several of Mellars's contentions are modified in light of methodological weaknesses and recently available data. It is suggested that many observed Middle/Upper Paleolithic differences are best understood with …
Vestiges humains des niveaux de l'Aurignacien ancien du site de Brassempouy (Landes)
The Brassempouy locality is situated in the Chalosse region in the southern part of the French department of Landes, two kilometers from the village of Brassempouy and forty kilometers south of Mont-de-Marsan. It includes several caves (grotte du Pape, grotte des Hyènes, galerie Dubalen, galerie du Mégacéros) which are part of a complex karstic system developed in an Eocene limestone formation just a few meters beneath the natural ground surface.…
Beyond Art
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art
Symbolism and Modern Human Origins [and Comments and Reply]
The manufacture of Aurignacian split-based points
Technologies for the Control of Heat and Light in the Vézère Valley Aurignacian
We can trace the beginnings of our knowledge of early Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian) use of fire to the pioneering 1910-1911 excavations at Abri Blanchard undertaken by Louis Didon and Marcel Castanet. At Blanchard, the excavators recognized and described fire structures that correspond in many ways to features excavated more recently in Western and Central Europe. Here, we address the issue of heat and light management in the early Upper Paleol…
Thoughts on Social Relationships and Language in Hominid Evolution
This paper argues that the evolution of language must have been dependent on the development of social relationships. A broad range of ideas pertaining to the evolution of human language is first critically reviewed. Our state of knowledge with regard to neural, psychological, anatomical and sociocultural aspects of language evolution is outlined. It is argued that a number of major transformations between 100,000 and 35,000 years ago are best un…
Imagerie féminine du Paléolithique
Having participated in the re-discovery in Montréal of seven nearly unpublished anthropomorphic figurines from the caves of Grimaldi (Liguria, Italy), the authors present a description and analysis that reunites these seven pieces from thejullien collection with those from the musée des Antiquités nationales at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. They attempt a seriation that yields a provisional chronology within the total collection of statuettes. They then…
Specialization and the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition [and Comments and Reply]
Discussions of the differences between the Middle and the Upper Paleolithic usually oppose them as if they differed in essence and resort to lists of features apparently disconnected among themselves. This approach may be questioned; in fact, we are dealing with successive stages of a continuous evolutionary process, and we ought to be seeking, on a broader geographical and chrono-cultural basis, a unifying principle of which the features conside…
The Evolution of Human Hunting
Radiocarbon Dates From the Upper Paleolithic of the Barma Grande
International audience
The Women of Brassempouy
Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition
F-content variation in mammoth ivory from Aurignacian contexts
Uranium-series dating of carbonate formations overlying Paleolithic art
The Uranium-Thorium (U/ Th) series dating method, developed 50 years ago, has proven its usefulness and reliability for the dating of marine (corals) and continental (speleothems) secondary carbonates deposits. Recently, improvements of the analytical techniques (TIMS – Thermo-Ionization Mass Spectrometry, and then MC-ICPMS – Multicollector-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy and laser ablation) allow the dating of very small samples and…
Early and Archaic Aurignacian Personal Ornaments from Isturitz Cave
Recent excavations at Isturitz Cave by Christian Normand have yielded a rich assemblage of Aurignacian personal ornaments in chronostratigraphic context. Here, we present the first study of this corpus, focusing on the techniques used for perforating teeth; the chronological variation in the selection of animal teeth (and one human tooth); the raw materials used for the beads and pendants (amber, ivory, talc, bone); data concerning local personal…
Early Aurignacian Graphic Arts in the Vézère Valley
Since 2007, programmed excavations directed by R. White in the Aurignacian sites of Blanchard and Castanet have resulted in renewed studies of graphic representations and have led to a new approach to some of the earliest parietal art from a cultural, chronological and environmental perspective. The analysis of the formal and technical artistic characteristics within each archeological context as part of all the known representations on limestone…
Pitture Paleolitiche Nelle Prealpi Venete
Quel(s) Aurignacien(s) à l’abri Blanchard (Sergeac, Dordogne, France) ? Données des collections d’industrie osseuse conservées aux États-Unis et retour sur le terrain
En 1910, M. Castanet sous la direction de L. Didon entamait les fouilles de l’abri Blanchard (Sergeac, Dordogne). Deux niveaux archéologiques séparés par une couche stérile seront individualisés et attribués à l’Aurignacien moyen sensu H. Breuil (soit Aurignacien I à pointe à base fendue). L’abri Blanchard fait partie des deux ou trois sites ayant livré les plus riches ensembles en matières osseuses pour cette période. Il recèle un important pote…
The Archaeology of Solvieux
The Archaeology of Solvieux: An Upper Palaeolithic Open Air Site in France. James Sackett. Los Angeles: UCLA Institute of Archaeology, 1999. 420 pp
L’histoire de La Balutie, un gisement oublié, voisin de Lascaux et de Regourdou
Cette contribution a pour objet de retranscrire l’histoire du site paléolithique de La Balutie (Montignac-Lascaux, Dordogne, France). L’histoire de ce site très tôt oublié, n’est ni sensationnelle, ni exceptionnelle, mais s’avère retranscrire l’atmosphère caractérisant les débuts des explorations des gisements préhistoriques de Dordogne. On y retrouve de grands noms de la Préhistoire de Dordogne qui n’ont légué que peu d’écrits sur le site, du mo…
L’imagerie féminine du paléolithique
Cet article présente une description et une analyse des quinze statuettes paléolithiques de la collection Grimaldi. Dans la première partie de leur article, les auteurs évaluent les différentes hypothèses qui ont été proposées pour expliquer la signification des figurines féminines du Paléolithique. Dans la seconde partie de leur texte, ils s’attachent à trouver une explication qui prendrait en compte le contexte culturel de fabrication, d’utilis…
The Aurignacian Site of the Abri de la Souquette (commune de Sergeac, Dordogne)
The Abri de la Souquette is little known today when compared with the neighboring sites of Abri Castanet and Abri Blanchard. A long history of investigation at the Abri de la Souquette has led not to a wider understanding of a site with significant Aurignacian deposits, but rather to scholarly obscurity as a site devoid of further research potential. In this paper, we attempt to lift some of this obscurity by chronicling the history of research a…
Pratiques symboliques aurignaciennes en abri-sous-roche dans la vallée de la Vézère
Depuis 2007, la reprise de l’étude des surfaces ornées des sites aurignaciens de Blanchard et de Castanet, dans le cadre de fouilles programmées dirigées par R. White permet aujourd’hui, d’aborder l’un des témoignages les plus anciens d’art rupestre dans son contexte culturel, chronologique et environnemental. L’analyse de ses caractéristiques artistiques, tant formelles que techniques, au sein de ses propres contextes archéologiques, mise en per…
On the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition
George Orwell, A LifeBernard Crick Boston
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Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition [and Comments and Replies]
This paper critically examines previous statements concerning the nature of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition in Western Europe. Mellars's overview of the transition in southwestern France forms the point of departure for discussion. Several of Mellars's contentions are modified in light of methodological weaknesses and recently available data. It is suggested that many observed Middle/Upper Paleolithic differences are best understood with …
On the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition
On the Paleolithic/Mesolithic Transition
Specialization and the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition [and Comments and Reply]
Discussions of the differences between the Middle and the Upper Paleolithic usually oppose them as if they differed in essence and resort to lists of features apparently disconnected among themselves. This approach may be questioned; in fact, we are dealing with successive stages of a continuous evolutionary process, and we ought to be seeking, on a broader geographical and chrono-cultural basis, a unifying principle of which the features conside…
Ontario, 1610-1985
Ontario is the land that is ours to discover then surely Randall White has written a book of discovery. Ontario 1610-1985 fulfills the need for a comprehensive text that chronicles the history of one of the founding provinces of Confederation, a province that has provided a vital legacy for Canada. Ontario 1610-1985 is for the general reader and an invaluable text for teachers and students of Canadian and Ontario history. Randall White concentrat…
Upper Paleolithic Land Use in the Périgord
Thoughts on Social Relationships and Language in Hominid Evolution
This paper argues that the evolution of language must have been dependent on the development of social relationships. A broad range of ideas pertaining to the evolution of human language is first critically reviewed. Our state of knowledge with regard to neural, psychological, anatomical and sociocultural aspects of language evolution is outlined. It is argued that a number of major transformations between 100,000 and 35,000 years ago are best un…
Glimpses of Long-Term Shifts in Late Paleolithic Land Use in the Périgord
Visual Thinking in the Ice Age
Husbandry and Herd Control in the Upper Paleolithic
The Evolution of Human Hunting
Symbolism and Modern Human Origins [and Comments and Reply]
On the Herd-Following Hypothesis
A Review of "Regional Ministers" and "Voice of Region
Last September the federal government tabled its set of unity proposals in Shaping Canada's Future Together (1991). At present these proposals are being debated and discussed, and negotiations over them are scheduled for yet-to-be-scheduled first ministers' meetings this year. One proposal on the table calls for the reform of the Senate. The federal government has also proposed a Council of the Federation, to formalize the current first ministers…
Une Vénus problématique trouvée au Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
The author comments in detail a strange venus kept in Minneapolis said to have been found at La Mouthe (Dordogne). He gathers arguments which throw suspicion on its authenticity
Beyond Art
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition
Convergent Trends in Architecture and Urban Environmental Planning
The Origin of Modern Humans
Radiocarbon Dates From the Upper Paleolithic of the Barma Grande
International audience
Structure, Signification, and Culture
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the field of Paleolithic art was a source of intellectual ferment and innovative interpretation. This was in direct contrast to the first forty years immediately following the recognition of graphic representations in Upper Paleolithic contexts. In this early period, all "art," from nineteenth-century impressionist landscapes to the Pleistocene painted bison of Altamira, was misguidedly viewed…
Imagerie féminine du Paléolithique
Having participated in the re-discovery in Montréal of seven nearly unpublished anthropomorphic figurines from the caves of Grimaldi (Liguria, Italy), the authors present a description and analysis that reunites these seven pieces from thejullien collection with those from the musée des Antiquités nationales at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. They attempt a seriation that yields a provisional chronology within the total collection of statuettes. They then…
The Archaeology of Solvieux
The Archaeology of Solvieux: An Upper Palaeolithic Open Air Site in France. James Sackett. Los Angeles: UCLA Institute of Archaeology, 1999. 420 pp
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