The last Lateglacial and Early Holocene societies in France (abridged version)

Overview of thirty years of research

Bibliographic Data

ID6063702
AuthorsNicolas Naudinot (0009-0008-9600-4781, corresponding author), Jean-Pierre Fagnart, Mathieu Langlais (0000-0002-7075-388X), Ludovic Mevel (0000-0001-6353-4518), Boris Valentin
TranslatorsLouise Byrne (0000-0001-7830-4854)
Year2019
Volume59
Pages5-7
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGallia préhistoire (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-4127 • E-ISSN: 2109-9642
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/galliap.1402
OpenAlexW2954585099
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

Since the middle of the 1980s, a lot of research has focused on the end of the Upper Palaeolithic in France. This article presents an overview of these thirty years of research, organized around four main geographic units which structure our knowledge of these societies. However, this overview aims to bring to light the main dynamics driving the composition of the technical, economic, symbolic and probably socio-cultural systems in France as a whole. Between the end of the Magdalenian and the first stages of the Mesolithic, the history of the hunter-gatherers on this territory underwent three major changes. The rhythms of these changes are still unclear and understanding the forces driving these changes is still difficult, although scenarios based on the very unstable climatic and environmental context are often advanced. This Lateglacial is no longer merely considered to be the antechamber of the Mesolithic –an “EpiPalaeolithic”, as it was called– studied in particular to contextualize the emergence of complex societies, wrongly solely attributed to the Neolithic. These last Pleistocene periods, with their abundant cultural changes and complex evolutionary techno-complexes and traditions, comprise their own research issues and constitute a subject in their own right

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Geography · Holocene · Magdalenian · Mesolithic · Pleistocene · Subject (documents · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Tools

Open DOIOpen Access