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  • Magdalenian pioneers in the northern French Alps, 17 000 cal BP

  • Ludovic Mevel
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 87 / Issue 336 / 1 June 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 384-404
    Print publication:
    1 June 2013

  • Using the multi-disciplinary forces of the CNRS, the author defines an early group of colonisers in the northern Alps as the glaciers retreated. At the key site of La Fru, analysis of the lithics shows an assemblage characterised by microblades made from good quality flint supplied from sources a hundred or more kilometres away. Analogies with early assemblages in Beringia and in Britain suggest this may be identified as a pioneer phase. Later in the Magdalenian, the supply is more varied and regional, generating networks for the dissemination of new ideas.