L’abri de La Fru à Saint-Christophe (Savoie)

• Published in: Gallia préhistoire
• Main Authors: Pion, Gilbert, Billard, Michel, Bintz, Pierre, Caillat, Bernard, Cataliotti-Valdina, Jean, Durand, Jean-Marc, Girard, Michel, Monjuvent, Guy
• Other Authors: Direction des Antiquités préhistoriques de Rhône-Alpes, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon, Institut Dolomieu (géologie), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire (IPGQ), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherches Archéologiques du CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, 06560 - Valbonne cedex (France), Centre de recherche archéologique (CRA)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 1990
• Subjects: [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Canis lupus; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02399373; https://doi.org/10.3406/galip.1990.2277

International audience The shelter of La Fru presents a chrono-industrial sequence that covers about four millenia of human occupation, beginning with a pre-Alleröd Magdalenian, going on with an early Azilian level at the beginning of Altered and a late Azilian level of Dryas III, up to a middle Mesolilhic at the end of Boreal. The Magdalenian level is characterized by backed bladelels and dihedral axial burins. It occupies a pre-Alleröd environment, with a fauna consisting of Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and Ibex (Capra ibex). The Azilian sequence corresponds to two levels dominated by backed points and end scapers. The early Azilian, radiocarbon dated to the beginning of Alleröd, presents an industry on blades and laminar flakes, while the late Azilian, dated to the end of Alleröd and the beginning of Dryas III, has tools made essentially on flakes. The morphological and morphotechnological differences between the two Azilian industries are clear and statistically significant. The fauna of these two Azilian levels corresponds to a more or less dense forest cover, dominated by Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus), Ibex (Capra ibex) and Wolf (Canis lupus). The Mesolithic sequence is very homogeneous, both sedimentologically and palynologically. It includes the climatic periods at the end of Dryas III, Preboreal and Boreal. The levels are continuous their industries show some very clear evolutionary characteristics. The fauna is that of a rather open forest, with Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus), Aurochs (Bos primigenius) and Wild Boar (Sus scrofa). La Fru contributes to the knowledge of human occupations during the climatic transition from the Late Glacial (Tardiglacial) to the Holocene in the Northern Alps thanks to the abundance of archaeological material which permits a significant chrono-industrial synthesis, and a good knowledge of the environment for each cultural period. L'abri de La Fru propose une séquence chrono-industrielle qui couvre environ quatre ...