https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=151 Publications de Auteurs Anthony E. Martinez fr 0 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=150 A blade core of Maastrichtian Hesbaye flint from the Gravettian site of Huccorgne, Southeast Belgium, was refitted to twenty-nine blade fragments, flakes, and pieces of debris. Technological analysis of the lithic operatory chain involved in the reduction of this core, as well as material analysis of internal fissures, suggest that the core was reduced during at least two episodes in spatially discrete portions of the archaeological site. The temporal period between reductions is unknown, but it is posited that the internal crack propagation was the product of exposure to severe cold at the beginning of the Last Glacial Maximum. lun., 11 mai 2026 16:09:43 +0200 lun., 11 mai 2026 16:14:42 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=150