https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=101 Publications de Auteurs Lawrence G. Straus fr 0 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=620 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:18:28 +0200 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:18:33 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=620 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=619 The period from Bölling through Preboreal saw the oceanic Vasco‑Cantabrian region of northern Spain and extreme southwestern France pass from the rigorously cold conditions of Oldest Dryas with mainly open vegetation to more temperate conditions with increasingly wooded landscapes culminating in the dense, mixed deciduous, climax forests of the Atlantic period. As glaciers retreated and ultimately disappeared from the Picos de Europa, Cantabrian Cordillera and western Pyrenees, the sea level rose, eventually creating the estuaries and bays that would become so important to human survival during the Mesolithic in this region. Considering that this period only covered some four millennia, the environmental changes were dramatic and relatively abrupt. In contrast to general similarities in the vegetation records of Gascony, the Basque Country and Cantabria‑Asturias, there are significant differences in archaeofaunas across the Pleistocene‑Holocene transition between the two sides of the western Pyrenees: reindeer‑domination followed by red deer colonization in the north versus continuity of red deer domination in the south, always with ibex in steep, rocky habitats and an increase through time in woodland‑specialized species in both areas, as bison was extirpated and horse at least became much rarer. Against this backdrop, humans struggled to survive, as attested by the transformation of the Upper Magdalenian into the Azilian, with simplification of a continuity technological tradition but an apparently radical break in the symbol system that had supported the longstanding ideology of Tardiglacial hunting societies. The final rupture of the Magdalenian world came – not coincidentally – at the end of the Preboreal as the forests closed in on what now would become Mesolithic foragers, mainly concentrated along the Boreal shore. mar., 12 mai 2026 16:16:38 +0200 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:16:43 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=619 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=382 Although Wallonia was one of the first regions of Europe to have Stone Age prehistoric research (as early as the 1820’s) and once whose record had sometimes been considered to be largely exhausted, recent research has provided significant evidence for Holocity of the fluctuating human settlement of NW Europe during the course of the Upper Pleistocene and initial Holocene. Here we report on the excavation and interdisciplinary analysis of cave, rockshelter and open-air sites pertaining to the Mousterian, Aurignacian, Gravettian, Magdalenian and Mesolithic periods (c 100 kya–8 kya). A critical aspect of hunter-gatherer adaptations to southern Belgium in all periods was the juxtaposition of the cave-rich NW flank of the Ardennes upland with the flint-rich, loess-covered plains to the north, on the frontier of glacial age human habitation in western Europe. mar., 12 mai 2026 11:14:39 +0200 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:45:54 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=382 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=253 lun., 11 mai 2026 16:48:31 +0200 mar., 12 mai 2026 13:32:10 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=253 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=100 lun., 11 mai 2026 15:54:10 +0200 lun., 11 mai 2026 15:54:16 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=100