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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Bois-de-Riquet (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault): A late Early Pleistocene archeological occurrence in southern France
Quaternary International, Volume 393, Year 2016
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The Bois-de-Riquet archeological site (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault, France) provides significant paleontological and archeological data about the first occupations of Western Europe. Although only partially excavated, the site has already yielded an exceptionally rich paleontological assemblage as well as some stone artefacts. The archeostratigraphical unit "US2" is encased within a basalt flowstone radiometrically dated to 1.57 Ma. The sedimentary infill has preserved large and small mammal fossils, as well as coprolites. Biochronological interpretations suggest an age of around 1.3-1.1 Ma for the accumulation. A few basalt artefacts were exhumed alongside the fossil bones. Interpretation of the lithics has required the elaboration of a strict selection protocol based upon extensive knapping experiments with local basalt. This paper presents results from the interdisciplinary study of the Bois-de-Riquet site in the aim of contextualizing these discoveries. The microstratigraphical analysis of the deposits is presented with recent geological interpretations in order to contribute a better understanding of the main features of this assemblage, and its remarkable preservation within the thermal and textural boundary between a basalt flowstone's base and its entablature. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA.
Authors & Co-Authors
Bourguignon, Laurence
France, Nanterre
Archéologies et Sciences de L’antiquité
Crochet, Jean Yves
France, Saint-jean-de-cuculles
Asprogeo
Capdevila, Raymond
France
Spn Pézenas
Ivorra, Jérôme
France
Spn Pézenas
Antoine, Pierre Olivier
France, Montpellier
Institut Des Sciences de L’evolution de Montpellier
Agustí, Jordi
Spain, Barcelona
Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Spain, Tarragona
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Barsky, Deborah
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Spain, Tarragona
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Blain, Hugues Alexandre
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Spain, Tarragona
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Boulbes, Nicolas
France, Montpellier
Universite Paul-valery Montpellier Iii
Bruxelles, Laurent
France, Nanterre
Archéologies et Sciences de L’antiquité
Claude, Julien
France, Montpellier
Institut Des Sciences de L’evolution de Montpellier
Cochard, David
France, Bordeaux
Université de Bordeaux
Filoux, Arnaud
France, Perpignan
Université de Perpignan Via Domitia
Thailand, Maha Sarakham
Mahasarakham University
Firmat, Cyril
Norway, Trondheim
Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskapelige Universitet
Lozano-Fernández, Iván
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Spain, Tarragona
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Magniez, Pierre
France, Perpignan
Université de Perpignan Via Domitia
France, Marseille
Aix Marseille Université
Pelletier, Maxime
France, Bordeaux
Université de Bordeaux
France, Marseille
Aix Marseille Université
Rios-Garaizar, Joseba
Spain, Burgos
Centro Nacional de Investigación Sobre la Evolución Humana Cenieh
Testu, Agnès
France, Perpignan
Université de Perpignan Via Domitia
de Weyer, Louis
France, Nanterre
Archéologies et Sciences de L’antiquité
Statistics
Citations: 48
Authors: 20
Affiliations: 14
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.037
ISSN:
10406182