| Title: |
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Human Settlement of the Aquitaine Basin between 19.5 cal. ka BP and 13.5 cal. ka BP: The Radiocarbon Evidence ; Continuités et discontinuités dans le peuplement humain du Bassin aquitain entre 19,5 cal. ka BP et 13,5 cal. ka BP : les données radiocarbone |
| Authors: |
Pétillon, Jean-Marc; Barshay-Szmidt, Carolyn; Laroulandie, Véronique; Sécher, Anthony; Boudadi-Maligne, Myriam; Brou, Laurent; Castel, Jean-Christophe; Chauvière, François-Xavier; Costamagno, Sandrine; Grubert, Morgane; Ducasse, Sylvain; Ladier, Edmée; Langlais, Mathieu; Mallye, Jean-Baptiste; Primault, Jérôme |
| Contributors: |
Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES); École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum); De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA); Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Musée national d'histoire et d'art; MNHAL; Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Genève (MHN); Office du patrimoine et de l’archéologie du canton de Neuchâtel, section archéologie; Office du Patrimoine et de l'Archéologie Neuchatel; Service régional de l'archéologie DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine (SRA Nouvelle-Aquitaine); Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles – Nouvelle-Aquitaine (DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine); Ministère de la Culture (MC)-Ministère de la Culture (MC) |
| Source: |
29e Congrès préhistorique de France; https://hal.science/hal-04536858; 29e Congrès préhistorique de France, May 2021, Toulouse, France. Session Les espaces vides : preuves d’absences ou absences de preuves ?, Société préhistorique française, pp.47-64, 2024 |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; Société préhistorique française |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Université Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurès: HAL |
| Subject Terms: |
Late Pleniglacial; Late Upper Paleolithic; radiocarbon; settlement; southwestern France; Aquitaine; Aquitaine Late Pleniglacial Late Upper Paleolithic Magdalenian radiocarbon settlement southwestern France; radiocarbone; sud-ouest de la France; Pléniglaciaire récent; peuplement; Paléolithique supérieur récent; Magdalénien; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory |
| Subject Geographic: |
Toulouse; France |
| Description: |
International audience ; Previous studies of Magdalenian 14C dates (ca. 19.5-13.5 cal. ka BP) in the western Aquitaine basin have found a disparity in continuity of occupation between the northern part of this western basin (Gironde) and the southern part (western Pyrenees), with a lack of occupation in the northern part ca. 17.5-15.5 cal. ka BP (corresponding to the Late Middle Magdalenian), interpreted as a local depopulation episode triggered by environmental factors. Here we expand on that research to see whether this pattern holds on a wider geographic scale. We compiled a corpus of 373 14C AMS dates from the five sub-regions of the Aquitaine basin. Results confirm that other northern regions (Vienne and Charente) are also virtually devoid of occupation between 17.5 cal. ka BP and 15.5 cal. ka BP, and that the northeast of the basin (Dordogne and Lot) also shows a decline in the number of occupations at that same period, although we do evoke the possibility that this pattern might be due partly to sampling biases. Our results show that the western Pyrenees pattern of continuous occupation holds true also for the southeastern part of the basin (central Pyrenees). Other areas (Centre east) are more difficult to interpret, largely because of the lack of 14C data. These findings lead us to reconsider some previously held tenets about the demography of the Aquitaine basin after the LGM: for instance, the role of the basin as a base for post-LGM population movements towards more northern regions of Europe; and the interpretation of some Pyrenean sites as “aggregation sites”. We end by proposing some avenues for further testing of these various scenarios. ; Le Bassin aquitain a fréquemment été caractérisé comme une des régions d’Europe de l’Ouest présentant le peuplement le plus dense et le plus continu pendant et après le Dernier Maximum glaciaire. À l’échelle locale, des contrastes apparaissent cependant. Un projet portant sur le Magdalénien de l’ouest aquitain (projet Magdatis) a ainsi montré l’existence d’un ... |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| Language: |
English |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-04536858; https://hal.science/hal-04536858v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-04536858v1/file/CPF%2029%20-%20Session%20D03%20P%C3%A9tillon%20BAT%20COR1.pdf |
| Rights: |
https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ETALAB-Licence-Ouverte-v2.0.pdf ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.B1FE588E |
| Database: |
BASE |