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11 - Description of the Lithic Industries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2010

Philip G. Chase
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
André Debénath
Affiliation:
Université de Perpignan, France
Harold L. Dibble
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Shannon P. McPherron
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Germany
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INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents the basic descriptive data on the lithic assemblages from Fontéchevade. The presentation is organized according to four distinct groups of assemblages, which in fact are not related stratigraphically one to the other. The first group of assemblages is the collection excavated by Henri-Martin, which is now housed at the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in St. Germain-en-Laye. As described in earlier chapters, this material comes from the front of the cave up to the main profile left by her. Although the material is labeled according to stratigraphic level and was analyzed by us accordingly, no other provenience information is available for the objects.

The other three groups of assemblages are the result of our own excavation. The first, and primary, set comes from the Main Profile, and the levels from this area are numbered (from the top down) with Arabic numbers (with subdivisions indicated by letters; e.g., 1A, 2B, etc.). Some of these sublevels have been combined where appropriate. The second set comes from our excavation in the back of the cave where Henri-Martin had excavated her Test Pit 3 (designated by us as the “Test Pit”). The levels from this area are given letter designations, and all of the subdivisions have been combined here. The third set of assemblages comes from the Witness Section left by Henri-Martin, which is located near the grid east wall of the cave, just outside the dripline.

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The Cave of Fontéchevade
Recent Excavations and their Paleoanthropological Implications
, pp. 170 - 226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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