Premières observations sur le gisement gravettien à statuettes féminines d’Amiens-Renancourt 1 (Somme)

• Published in: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française
• Main Authors: Paris, Clément, Deneuve, Émeline, Fagnart, Jean-Pierre, Coudret, Paule, Antoine, Pierre, Peschaux, Caroline, Lacarrière, Jessica, Coutard, Sylvie, Moine, Olivier, Guérin, Gilles
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Paris : Société Préhistorique Française 2017
• Subjects: Nord de la France; Paléolithique supérieur ancien; Gravettien récent-final; statuettes féminines; parure; loess; Pléniglaciaire supérieur weichselien; weichselian Upper Pleniglacial; Early Upper Palaeolithic; Northern France; Late-Final Gravettian; female statuettes; ornaments; archeo; hist; Flint; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2017.14801; https://www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_2017_num_114_3_14801

The Renancourt district, located to the west of the town of Amiens, has been known in archaeological literature since the beginning of the 20th century through work carried out by V. Commont in the ‘ancienne briqueterie Devalois’. Until recently, this open-air site was one of the rare early Upper Pa...