Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

New excavations at Notarchirico (Italy, 670-695 ka). New data and questions on the onset of the Acheulean in Western Europe

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The site of Notarchirico (South Italy) has been excavated by M. Piperno in the 1980's yielding several levels of occupations dated by Ar39/Ar40 between 610 and 670 ka, with or without bifaces. New excavations have been taking place from 2016 on the unknown bottom of the sequence revealing four levels dated between 670 and 695 ka. Hominins came along water channels for scavenging and left small cores and flakes on thin-grained stones and Large Cutting Tools, mainly on limestone pebbles. Bifaces were found in a level older than 670 ka pushing back the ages of this tradition. This discovery raises question on the onset of the Acheulean, timing and origin, in Western Europe as two other pene-contemporaneous sites, La Noira, center of France (700 ka) and Moulin Quignon, Northwest of France (670 ka) yield similar lithic techno-complexes in northern areas. The period between 900 and 700 ka, with the discovery of some crudely-made bifaces at Barranc de La Boella, Spain from around 900 ka, seems to be a key-phase to question two hypotheses, arrivals of new populations possibly along Mediterranean coasts, Homo heidelbergensis, or local evolution.

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hal-03824625 , version 1 (25-10-2022)

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Moncel Marie-Hélène. New excavations at Notarchirico (Italy, 670-695 ka). New data and questions on the onset of the Acheulean in Western Europe. Aegean Acheulean at the Eurasian crossroads Hominin settlement in Eurasia and Africa, 2022, Lesbos, Greece. ⟨hal-03824625⟩
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