https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=571 Numéros en texte intégral fr mar., 12 mai 2026 14:45:52 +0200 mar., 12 mai 2026 14:45:52 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=571 0 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=572 mar., 12 mai 2026 14:46:08 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=572 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=573 mar., 12 mai 2026 14:46:22 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=573 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=574 mar., 12 mai 2026 14:50:17 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=574 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=576 mar., 12 mai 2026 14:53:00 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=576 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=577 The excavations (1997‑2000) of the Susiluola cave site in Western Finland yielded a stratigraphic sequence of seven gravel layers of different characteristic including one interglacial soil horizon. The four lower layers contained archaeological finds. The uppermost archaeological horizon (layer IV‑V) was dated to the Eemian interglacial (TL‑IRSL‑dating, geomorphological comparisons to Eemian paleosols, an interglacial sea level transgression). The site is in many aspects interesting as well as problematic. It is the first archaeological site within the area of the Fennoscandian ice shield, which has produced evidence for human activity in Northern Fennoscandia predating the last glaciation. The cave, functioning as a sediment trap, preserved Pleistocene deposits and their archaeological find material. But littoral and glaciofluvial processes had disturbed partly even these deposits, and the lithic material suffered by abrasion. Because of the acidity of the bedrock and the gravel layers, no Pleistocene faunal material was preserved. Several rock types were used as lithic raw material: mainly small pebbles, collected in the surroundings of the site (quartzite, quartz, sandstone), a part of the material is not local (red siltstone, fine‑grained quartzite). Rock species of good fracture qualities, as flint, are missing. A noticeable characteristic in the material is the coexistence of different operation chains with differing reduction techniques, depending on fracture qualities of the raw material. The lithic assemblage from Susiluola layer IV‑V shows several technological and typological features, which belong to the early (Eemian) Mousterian technocomplex. mar., 12 mai 2026 14:56:30 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=577 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=579 La grotte de Ciaorei a livré un remplissage contenant plusieurs niveaux archéologiques moustériens et gravettiens. Ces occupations auraient débuté durant le complexe de réchauffement de Borosteni, et fini durant le complexe interstadiaire d’Ohaba (soit, entre 55 000 B.P. et 23‑21 000 B.P.). Les restes de grands mammifères, exceptés ceux des ours de cavernes, sont pauvres et relativement mal conservés. Les carnivores, notamment les ursidés, dominent le spectre faunique. Leur rôle dans l’origine et l’histoire des assemblages osseux est important. Les Moustériens n’ont chassé que quelques cerfs, aurochs et bouquetins. Durant ces occupations, la grotte a servi de halte de chasse. Au Gravettien, la chasse apparaît plus intensive et le rôle des carnivores plus anecdotique (exception faite de celui des ours qui demeure important). Les Gravettiens ont abattu les mêmes espèces que leurs prédécesseurs et des sangliers. Durant cette période, le site peut être assimilé à un campement saisonnier (probablement estival). mar., 12 mai 2026 15:24:09 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=579 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=580 This article presents the production mode of the Levallois points at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic. Several collections from South Moravia (Podoli I, Stránská skála III‑I, Líšeň‑Čtvrte, Brno‑Bohunice and Orechov I and II) were analysed from the standpoint of the type of Levallois points found in the Bohunician and Szeletian collections and how they were made. Generally, the Levallois points have blade proportions between 10‑35% and often bi‑directional scar patterns (27‑100%). mar., 12 mai 2026 15:30:20 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=580 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=587 This paper is devoted to the study of lithic typology and technology of the West Ukrainian Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transitional site Kulychivka. The site was excavated by V.P. Savchuk between the years 1968‑1987. Discussed in the paper is the lithic assemblage from the III‑d cultural layer of the lower‑most one recovered during the 1979 field campaign. A limited series of artifacts discovered during subsequent years of investigation of the site is also involved for comparison. Kulychivka typology comprises component Upper Palaeolithic types, where scrapers, followed by retouched blades, burins, etc., are characteristic. Typical Levallois points add originality of the assemblage. Kulychivka technology involves two modes of exploitation of raw materials, namely flat (Levallois) and volumetric (parallel or prismatic); knapping on narrow lateral face. Both modes are characterized by specific traits; though rare, there are examples of combination of the two. The original appearance of the Kulychivka assemblage allows to define a distinct Kremenician industry. The closest analogy of Kremenician of Western Ukraine is represented by the Moravian Bohunician. Regional Middle Palaeolithic records show no clear and doubtless forerunners of Kremenician.This paper discusses typological and technological aspects of the Kulychivka industry. It is mainly based on analysis of the assemblage of the III‑d (lower) Upper Palaeolithic layer from the excavations by V.P. Savchuk in 1979 conducted on an area of ca. 108 square meters. Additional extra materials coming from later V.P. Savchuk field campaigns were also used, but are represented in the present paper more briefly. According to the excavator, the area excavated in 1979 yielded the hearth (250 × 160 × 614 centimeters) and two concentrations of finds, one of which - oval in shape, 4 × 2,5 m in area - yielded up to 78 % of flints (Savchuk, 1979). The lithic series of the III‑d layer of Kulychivka from the Depository of Ternopil Museum of Local Studies consists of 6408 pieces and were analyzed by the present authors. Additionally, the data on ca. 600 technologically meaningful artifacts from the Lviv Archaeological Institute were also involved. mar., 12 mai 2026 15:34:26 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=587 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=588 The debates on understanding of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Eastern Europe are on the spot now. Nevertheless, not much attention is being paid to taxonomy as a key tool of data analysis. The proposed taxonomical approach challenges the ternary schema, which consists of such interrelated taxons as "technocomplex", "industry", and "type of industry". A wide sample of archaeological data has been analyzed in terms of various comparative strategies. The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Eastern Europe has been understood as a nonlinear/multidimensional process. Its archaeological interface points to the notion of two "lines of development" termed as transitional and early Upper Palaeolithic industries, in which technological and typological variability has been documented.The group of transitional industries appears within two technocomplexes: the Epimicoquian and the Levallois‑Mousterian of Tabun D tradition. The first comprises several industries with a distinctive combination of Micoquian and Upper Palaeolithic traits and rooted the Middle Palaeolithic Micoquian. The second is distinguished by a particular technology providing Levallois recurrent bipolar reduction and volumetric reduction within the same knapping context. The industries which belong to this technocomplex are geographically diverse: Kremenician (western Volhynia), Bohunician (Central Europe), Temnata cave I, VI (Balkans), Levallois‑Mousterian of Tabun D and Emiran (Near East). The consideration tentatively assumes that the bearers of this tradition, presumably anatomically modern humans, came to inhabit part of Europe. Three technocomplexes have been described within the Early Upper Palaeolithic line of development: the Aurignacian, the Archaic Gravettian, and the Epimicoquian. Each of them is represented by a number of industries which have been spread throughout the different territorial groups. mar., 12 mai 2026 15:36:49 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=588 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=589 mar., 12 mai 2026 15:38:37 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=589 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=590 mar., 12 mai 2026 15:41:04 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=590 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=591 Cet article traite de l’hypothèse d’une continuité entre le Lincombien‑Ranisien‑Jerzmanowicien (L‑R‑J) et le Gravettien aux pointes pédonculées du nord‑ouest de l’Europe. Le L‑R‑J est une industrie à pointes foliacées laminaires présente durant l’Interpléniglaciaire du Pays de Galles jusqu’au sud de la Pologne. Il se différencie techno‑typologiquement et géographiquement du Szeletien. Ce L‑R‑J présente claires affinités avec des industries à pointes foliacées de la fin du paléolithique moyen, en particulier avec l’Altmühlien. Après l’Interpléniglaciaire, vers 28 000 B.P., le Maisierien, faciès du Gravettien aux pointes pédonculées, se développe en Belgique, dans le nord de la France et en Grande‑Bretagne. C’est l’emploi prépondérant de la retouche plate dans ces deux groupes qui est la base de l’hypothèse d’une continuité entre ceux‑ci. Cette analogie stylistique n’est explicable ni par des aspects environnementaux, fonctionnels, ou économiques. L’absence de hiatus géographique et chronologique entre les deux groupes, elle peut donc être interprétée en terme culturel justifiant l’hypothèse d’une continuité entre les deux groupes. La continuité dégagée entre un groupe issu du paléolithique moyen local et un groupe du paléolithique supérieur est bien entendu cruciale pour notre conception de la transition entre ces deux périodes. L’aurignacien, présent au moins depuis ca. 34 000 B.P. dans cette région, a pu jouer un rôle dans le passage d’un groupe à l’autre. D’une part, cette continuité pose problème en ce qui concerne les aspects paléontologiques, problème irrésolu en raison de l’absence de restes humains dans ces deux groupes. This article is about the hypothesis of continuity between the Lincombian‑Ranisian‑Jerzmanowician (L‑R‑J) and the northwestern Europe Gravettian with stemmed points. The L‑R‑J is an industry with blade leaf‑points present during the Interpleniglacial from Wales to south Poland. It is differentiated from the Szeletian techno‑typologically and geographically. The L‑R‑J has clear links with late Middle Palaeolithic leaf‑point industries, in particular with the Altmühlian. Around 28 000 B.P., the Maisierian, a facies of the Gravettian with stemmed points, developed in Belgium, northern France and Britain. The important use of flat retouch in these two groups is at the root of the hypothesis of continuity between them. This stylistic analogy cannot be explained by environmental, functional or economic factors. So the absence of geographic and chronological hiatus between the two groups lets us interpret this stylistic similarity as evidence of a cultural link. This continuity is important for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. The Aurignacian, present in this region from ca. 34 000 B.P., probably had an influence on the shift from the L‑R‑J to the Maisierian. The absence of any human bone in these groups leaves open the palaeontological problem. mar., 12 mai 2026 15:54:44 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=591 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=593 Les découvertes de restes humains provenant du Gravettien (Pavlovien) morave étaient, jusqu’à présent, divisées en deux groupes : les enterrements de corps complets (éventuellement déplacés par des agents naturels) – seuls considérés comme sépultures proprement dites – et les ossements isolés. Cette approche est basée sur la perspective eurocentrique et ne correspond pas à la réalité ethnologique. Les traces d’une manipulation beaucoup plus complexe des dépouilles mortelles peuvent être retrouvées dans les situations archéologiques, tout autant que soit leur témoignage. De plus, les données des fouilles anciennes sont insuffisantes et nécessitent une révision approfondie utilisant tous les documents de l’époque. Le réexamen de certaines trouvailles classiques (Predmostí, Brno 2) mène à la conclusion qu’il s’agissait des dépositions secondaires d’ossements humains sélectionnés, dans le dernier cas peut‑être un dépôt des reliques chamaniques. mar., 12 mai 2026 16:04:10 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=593 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=595 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:06:53 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=595 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=597 The current state of hunter‑gatherer research is specifically concerned with a multi‑aspectual approach to archaeological data. Its particular contribution lies in developing a comprehensive definition of culture. The paper undertakes to discuss the Crimean Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic records from different points of view, namely ecology, technology, typology, subsistence strategy, mortuary practices and symbolism. The method points to the notion that landscape diversity and ungulate biology are useful to the definition of mobility. The particular evidence of the mutilated hands as part of specific ritual activity, as well symbolic depictions on the pit grave ceiling, mark the mortuary practice. The model biases relations of the social and economic factors specific to this case. mar., 12 mai 2026 16:09:52 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=597 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=605 Fracturing patterns on phalanges and mandibles are analysed in the ensemble of human processing of groups who lived in Caldas Cave about 13.000 BP. Therefore it will be characterized their fracturing patterns and it will be verified differential fracturing on some specific bones as response to eating habit. It has treated a partial aspect of subsistence strategies as the selection of individuals and marginal anatomical parts with low medullary content to palliate the stationary nutritional stress due to biological alterations at level of fat distribution that takes place cyclically in the organisms. This will take us to approach the reconstruction of food strategies in their palaeoeconomic system. Les modèles de fracturation sur des phalanges et des mandibules sont analysés dans l’ensemble du traitement des carcasses par les groupes humains ayant habité la grotte de Las Caldas vers 13000 BP. On essaye de caractériser leurs modes de fracture et de vérifier s’il s’agit d’une fracture différentielle sur certains restes osseux comme réponse à une stratégie alimentaire. On a traité un aspect partiel des stratégies de subsistance dans les habitudes de sélection d’individus et de parties anatomiques au contenu médullaire rare pour affronter la pénurie alimentaire stationnaire due aux modifications biologiques cycliques du niveau de distribution de la graisse dans les organismes. Cela permet d’approcher la reconstruction de leurs habitudes de consommation alimentaire qui font partie du système paléoéconomique. mar., 12 mai 2026 16:13:56 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=605 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 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=619 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=620 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:18:28 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=620 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=621 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:19:42 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=621 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=623 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:23:24 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=623 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=627 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:28:55 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=627 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=629 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:30:58 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=629 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=633 mar., 12 mai 2026 16:31:49 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=633