Context of a late Neandertal : implications of multidisciplinary research for the transition to Upper Paleolithic adaptations at Saint-Césaire, Charante-Maritime, France / edited by François Lévêque, Anna Mary Backer, and Michel Guilbaud ; articles translated from the French by Anna Mary Backer

Object Details

Author

Lévêque, François 1935-

Backer, Anna Mary 1956-

Guilbaud, M (Michel)

"Papers presented at the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans in April 1991"--Acknowledgements.

Contents

Preface / Lawrence G. Straus -- Introduction to Saint-Césaire / François Lévêque -- The sediments and stratigraphy of Saint-Césaire: contributions to the paleoclimatology of the site / Jean-Claude Miskovsky and François Lévêque -- Thermoluminescence dating of the prehistoric site of La Roche à Pierrot, Saint-Césaire / N. Mercier, H. Valladas, J-L. Joron, and J-L. Reyss -- The Castelperronian industry of Saint-Césaire: the upper level / François Lévêque -- Debitage from the Upper Castelperronian level at Saint-Césaire: methodological approach and implications for the transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic / Michel Guilbaud -- Pollen analysis at Saint-Césaire / Chantal Leroyer and Arlette Leroi-Gourhan -- Macrofauna from Castelperronian levels at Saint-Césaire / Françoise Lavaud-Girard -- A taphonomic and paleoethnographic study of the fauna associated with the Neandertal of Saint-Césaire / Marylène Patou-Mathis -- Spatial distributions at La Roche à Pierrot, Saint-Césaire: changing uses of a rockshelter / Anna M. Backer -- Appendix / Bernard Vandermeersch

1993

Type

Congresses

Physical description

xii, 131 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm

Place

France

Poitou-Charentes

Saint-Césaire Rockshelter (France)

Poitou-Charentes (France)

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Chatelperronien culture

Neanderthals

Animal remains (Archaeology)

Palynology

Antiquities

Record ID

siris_sil_682543

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0