Aux prémices du Gravettien dans le Nord-Ouest européen. Étude de la production des pointes lithiques à Maisières-Canal (province de Hainaut, Belgique)

International audience ; Between around 29.000 and 21.000 BP, Europe was occupied by human societies whose archaeological traces are gathered within the Gravettian entity. However, several authors are now openly questioning the unity of the Gravettian, and one of the key aspects of these debates is the supposed formation period of the Gravettian, that is to say the period covering the disappearance and replacement of the traditions related to the Aurignacian around 29.000-28.000 BP. Dated to around 28.000 BP (De Heinzelin, 1973a, p. 45; Haesaerts and Damblon, 2004; Jacobi et al., 2010), the ma... Mehr ...