MEIGNEN , L.

Charcoal analysis—the study of charcoal from archaeological contexts—is designed to reconstruct palaeoenvironment and human use of wood. At two prehistoric sites in the Causse du Larzac (France)—Les Canalettes (Mousterian) and Les Usclades (Mesolithic)—charcoal analysis has revealed specimens whose anatomical structure was abnormally compressed...

In the lower levels of Les Pradelles, in Charentes, very low densities of lithic artefacts are in contrast with large quantities of bone remains, mostly reindeer. The introduction of finished tools (made on non local, high quality flint from the Cretaceous outcrops) highly curated in the site, together with an expedient strategy on strictly...

New radiocarbon dating of the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in Kebara Cave, Israel