Des outils facettés dans les assemblages des chasseurs-cueilleurs du nord-ouest de la Belgique : traces de contacts entre communautés mésolithiques et agro-pasteurs au cours du Vème millénaire avant notre ère ; Faceted tools within indigenous hunter-gatherer assemblages of NW Belgium: evidence of foragerfarmer contact during the 5 th millennium cal BC

A recent exhaustive analysis of lithic assemblages from four wetland sites belonging to the 5 th and early 4 th millennium cal BC, all situated in the Lower-Scheldt basin of NW Belgium (East Flanders), has revealed the presence of numerous faceted tools. Unknown prior to the 5 th millennium these tools constitute a totally new type of tool within hunter-gatherer contexts of the Scheldt basin. Typologically, they seem to resemble similar tools found within Early Neolithic contexts in northern France and Belgium, suggesting some kind of connection between the last hunter-gatherers from the sandy... Mehr ...