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questioned, leading to an alternative hypothesis suggesting that both GST and knapping were used during

the Badegoulian. We present a new set of evidence from several sites in southwest France, which shed a new

light on the issue of Badegoulian antlerworking and the transition with the subsequent Lower Magdalenian.

Our study is based on two complementary methods: the technological analysis of three antler assemblages

well-dated to the Badegoulian or to the Lower Magdalenian; and the direct

C-dating of specic antler ar-

tifacts from three sites with mixed or problematic contexts. The results rmly establish that, in southwest

France, knapping is the only method used for the production of antler splinters during the Badegoulian,

before ca. 20500 cal BP; and that it is rapidly replaced by the GST at the beginning of the Lower Magdale-

nian, after ca. 20500 cal BP. The interpretation of this technical shift is then discussed.

✉ UMR 5608, Université Toulouse Le Mirail, Maison de la Recherche, 5 allées A. Machado, 31058 Toulouse

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Andrea Picin

b, c,

, Marco Peresani

The emergence of Levallois technology in the western Mediterranean

The introduction of Levallois method in Europe is considered the technological innovation that marked the

beginning of the Middle Paleolithic. Recent studies have remarked the importance of regional perspectives

in which the research about the early use of Levallois should be addressed. In fact after the acceptance that

Levallois technology arose from the local handaxe production and that the earlier African evidences were

not responsible of its diffusion, the scattered appearance of hierarchized methods might have follow differ-

ent areal patterns. Although the chronologies of this new knapping method are well established in Northern

Europe, a certain disagreement exists in literature regarding the Mediterranean territories. Some authors

argued that Levallois technology was developed in southern Europe at about 300 ka BP (Palma di Cesnola,

1996; Fontana et al. 2010) or even earlier (Santonja and Peréz González, 2006; Walker et al. 2006). The ab-

sence in some Italian sites of secure chronological dates induced others to propose a younger age (Mussi,

2002). Another source of discrepancy is related with the attribution to an early Levallois production of

some lithic series in which the presumed Levallois blanks might be interpreted as by-products of other

knapping strategies. The state of uncertainty about the analyses of some collections limited the western

Mediterranean from the debate of the emergence of Levallois in Europe. In this research the lithic assem-

blages of unit VIII and unit VII of San Bernardino Cave (Italy) are presented. These assemblages are dated

with ESR and U/Th methods respectively to MIS 7a and the beginning of MIS 6. The technological analy-

ses detected the appearance and the development of Levallois method. These results add new data to the

understanding of the dynamics of the arising of this technology in the late Middle Pleistocene.

References:

Fontana, F., Nenzioni, G., Peretto, C., 2010. The southern Po plain (Italy) in the mid-late Pleistocene:

Human occupation and technical behaviours. Quaternary International, 223-224, 465-471.

Mussi, M., 2002. Earliest Italy. An overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Kluwer Academic/

Plenum Publishers, New York.

Palma di Cesnola, A., 1996. Le Paléolitique inférior et moyen en Italie. Editions Jérôme Millon, Bernin.

Santonja, M., Pérez-González, A., 2006. La industria lítica del miembro estratigráco medio de Ambrona

(Soria, España) en el contexto del Paleolítico antiguo de la Peninsula Iberica. Zephyrus 59, 7-20

Walker, M. J., Rodríguez Estrella, T., Carrión García, J. S., Mancheño Jiménez, M. A., Schwenninger, J. L.,

Ló pez Martínez, M., López, Jiménez, A., San Nicolás Del Toro, M., Hills, M. D., Walkling, T., 2006.

Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (Murcia, Southeast Spain): An Acheulian and Levalloiso-

Mousteroid assemblage of Palaeolithic artifacts excavated in a Middle Pleistocene faunal context

with hominin skeletal remains. Eurasian Prehistory 4 (1-2), 3-43.

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Neanderthal Museum, Talstrasse 300, D40822, Mettmann, Germany

Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Àrea de Prehistòria, Avinguda Catalunya 35, ES43002, Tarragona, Spain

Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Escorxador s/n, ES43003, Tarragona,

Universitá di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Biologia ed Evoluzione, Sezione di Paleobiologia, Corso Ercole d’ Este, 32,

IT44100, Ferrara, Italy. [email protected] ; marco.peresani @unife.it

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