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Eva Rosenstock

We have invented nothing: welfare and art in prehistory

Pablo Picasso’s famous quote, „after Altamira, all is decadence“ and, „we have invented nothing“ on moder-

nity and the quality of art in the Upper Palaeolithic reects not only on mere artistic expression: It appears

that biological standards of living, a measure of health developed within the eld of economics, seem to

have reached during the Palaeolithic standards not seen until our own times. In this paper we test the notion

that Upper Palaeolithic people were the tallest in prehistory contrasting the results with further develop-

ments through to the Bronze Age. Alongside standard explanations like high protein intake and low work

expenditure, art will also be discussed including questions such as; are times of high biological living stand-

ards also periods of low economic pressure and do they therefore release greater creative energy? And can

we statistically operationalize artistic quantity and quality as comfortably as we can economic variables?

✉ FU Berlin

Morgan Roussel

New insights into the Châtelperronian. What’s its relationship with the Protoaurignacian?

The nature and the interpretation of the Châtelperronian is hotly debated. Recent publications challenged

the chronology and the anthropological attribution of the Châtelperronian.

In order to determine the origin and the signication of the Châtelperronian, the study of lithic techno-

logical systems is particularly useful here. We undertook the study of the lithics from three Châtelperronian

layers preserved in sequence at Quinçay. Quinçay is one of the rare Châtelperronian cave site where an in-

ternal evolution of this technocomplex has been described. The sequence is sealed by a roof fall and there

is no overlying Palaeolithic layer.

This study allowed us to determine the technical system changes over a long time period. In the three

Châtelperronian layers the method for blade production is specic of the Châtelperronian and is different

from the one used during the Protoaurignacian, last technocomplex directly following the Châtelperronian

in terms of chronology and stratigraphy as recognized in few European sites.

At Quinçay, bladelet production is quite frequent in the three Châtelperronian layers. The method used is

different from the one used during the Protoaurignacian but the goal of this bladelet production is similar

to the one of the Protoaurignacian: to obtain blanks for large Dufour bladelets.

The coherence of the lithic technical system from one layer to another, at Quinçay, suggests little to no

change through time. Thus, we can consider that there was no progressive evolution from the Châtelper-

ronian to the Protoaurignacian. Nevertheless, we have to consider the possible inuence of the Protoaurig-

nacian on the Châtelperronian. The idea of projectile and the concept of retouched bladelets would have

diffused from one group to another.

✉ Dr. Morgan Roussel, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution,

Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

UMR 7041, ArScAn, AnTET, Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie, 21 allée de l’Université, F-92023

Nanterre Cedex, France, roussel@eva.mpg.de

Karen Ruebens

Late Middle Palaeolithic Bifacial Tools in Western Europe: Terminologies, Types and Territorial

Trends

After declining during the earlier phase of the Middle Palaeolithic, bifacially worked tools (including hand-

axes) become once again a regular component of lithic assemblages during the Late Middle Palaeolithic

(MIS 5d-3, ca. 115-30,000 BP). This reoccurrence is notable all over Western Europe and the bifacial tools

are characterised by a large degree of morphometric variability. Past studies have led to the denition of two

main biface-rich entities:

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