Blade Production During the Middle Paleolithic in Northwestern Europe
Résumé
Evidence for the existence of a blade production during the Middle Paleolithic in northwestem Europe dates back to the early 1970s. This production is documented by a set of sites included in a restricted geographical (southern Belgium, western Germany, northwestern France) and chronological context (the very beginning of the last glaciation). Seven major sites are taken into account in this study. The technical modalities applied to this production -percussion techniques method and core volume management, purpose of the production and association with other systems of production - bring new light on the relationship it bean to contemporaneous Levallois debitage and to subsequent Upper Paleolithic blade production.
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