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What is left of the Badegoulian “interlude”? New data on cultural evolution in southern France between 23,500 and 20,500 cal. BP

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This article summarizes the main results of research that aims to reconsider the nature and status of the Badegoulian phenomenon. In France, the second part of the Upper Paleolithic witnessed an abrupt change in the development of technological traditions: around 19,500 BP (23,500–23,000 cal. BP), the Solutrean industries disappeared and were replaced by very different Badegoulian assemblages. Initially considered as the beginning of the Magdalenian, the Badegoulian was later re-evaluated as a specific archaeological “culture”: at the end of the 1990s it was considered as an atypical and discordant industry without clear links with the preceding and the following ones. Research questioned this position, and re-examined the reality of the “Badegoulian interlude” through the techno-economic analysis of several lithic assemblages from Southern France. A dynamic reconstruction of the lithic technical system confirms the sharp and deep break that separates the Solutrean and Badegoulian techno-economic worlds. On the other hand, without denying the differences existing between the Badegoulian and the Magdalenian, it is demonstrated that the Badegoulian truly gave root to the Magdalenian around 17,500 BP (20,500 cal. BP). Finally, the place and the meaning of the Badegoulian in the “palaeo-history” of southwestern Europe are discussed within a broader geographical context.
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Sylvain Ducasse. What is left of the Badegoulian “interlude”? New data on cultural evolution in southern France between 23,500 and 20,500 cal. BP. Quaternary International, 2012, 272-273, pp.150-165. ⟨10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.018⟩. ⟨hal-03150456⟩

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