Place du Bayacien dans la structuration du Gravettien

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ID8941220
AuthorsDamien Pesesse (Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume50
Issue1
Pages23-44
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGallia préhistoire (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-4127 • E-ISSN: 2109-9642
PublisherCNRS Éditions (PUBLISHER • FR)
DOI10.3406/galip.2008.2457
OpenAlexW1500904285
LanguageFR
Citations received7

Around 29,000 B. P., the emergence of new traditions profoundly modified the European cultural landscape. Meanwhile, the processes of this crucial episode in the history of Palaeolithic populations remain poorly known. In France, the Bayacian, recognized at la Gravette (Bayac, Dordogne) and characterized by a predominance of flechettes, is interpreted as the oldest manifestation of the Gravettian. The technological study presented here confirms the originality and the specificity of this industry relative to Gravettian and Aurignacian industries. Even if no Gravette points have been found in the Bayacian, the emergence of a highly invested projectile element during this period can be interpreted as the first manifestation of Gravettian values. From this perspective, this first Gravettian is not a Gravettian stricto sensu, but shows the first signs of the emergence of this culture

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Aurignacian · Cave · Ethnology · Geography · Originality · Period (music · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeological and Geological Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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