The Seine, Yonne and Somme are the main rivers draining northwestern France and flowing
into the Channel. During Pleistocene cold stages they were tributaries of the “Fleuve …

A comparison of fluvial terrace sequences from around the world, based on data collected
as part of International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Project No. 449, has revealed …

Dating the earliest human occupations in Western Europe and reconstructing links with
climatic and environmental constraints is a central issue in Quaternary studies. Amongst the …

Early Levallois core technology is usually dated in Europe to the end of Marine Isotope
Stage (MIS) 9 and particularly from the beginning of MIS 8 to MIS 6. This technology is …

Abstract In Northern France the loess cover from the Last glacial (Weichselian) is
represented by a semi-continuous mantle up to 8 m in thickness in the best localities such as …

The archaeological sequence from the Orgnac 3 site presents the opportunity to observe
behavioral aspects characterizing the beginnings of the main Neanderthal technological …

Northwestern France is characterized by the presence of many Middle Palaeolithic sites,
covering the entire period. The Saalian phase is less documented, partly for taphonomic …

The technological approaches developed in Western Europe during the last two decades
aim to define different systems of debitage (used here as a noun to denote the process of …

Abstract IGCP 449 (2000–2004), seeking to correlate fluvial records globally, has compiled
a dataset of archaeological records from Pleistocene fluvial sequences. Many terrace …

The use of handaxe morphology as a cultural and temporal marker within the Quaternary
Lower–Middle Palaeolithic record has had a very chequered history, and abuses in the past …