The end of the middle palaeolithic in northern France

• Published in: Quaternaire
• Main Author: Locht, Jean‑luc
• Other Authors: Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), Laboratoire de géographie physique : Environnements Quaternaires et Actuels (LGP), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Middle Palaeolithic; datings; Middle Pleniglacial; erosion; Paléolithique moyen; datations; Pléniglaciaire moyen; érosion; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy; Découverte; Greenland
• Online Access: https://inrap.hal.science/hal-02835266; https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.12456

International audience The end of the Middle Palaeolithic remains a poorly known period in Northern France. This region is further characterized by the absence of a «transitional» industry identified elsewhere in Europe. The discovery of occupation levels contemporary of marine isotope stage 3 remai...