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2019-01-02 10:11:32   •   ID: 2062

Good Times for Northern France during MIS5

Figure 1
This are early 20th century findings from Fermanville, located on the north coast of Cotentin, halfway between Cherbourg and Barfleur.

Typologically you see Mousterian Points, the larger and elongated item is 9 cm long.

They are both made on thick blanks- the elongated point is most probably made by a laminar method, while the smaller point was made probably by a Levallois approach, but another unipolar convergent approach could also being present.

As early as 1885, Middle Paleolithic findings from the area were published by the Société des Sciences de Cherbourg (Figure 2).

In the Lower Normandy, the earliest Middle Paleolithic settlements are associated with raised beaches and dated to MIS 9. They became more common during MIS 7/early MIS6.

Figure 2
Anyhow, occupations of the Early Weichselian (between 112 and 72 k.a.) are by far the best preserved and most numerous.

Sites from the Eem interglacial (MIS 5e) are rare due to taphonomic factors. MIS 5d (Herning interstadial) is characterized by the the production of Levallois points and blades from prismatic cores.

Ensembles from the grey forest soils, indicating favorable Boreal forests interspersed with steppes, MIS 5c (Brörup interstadial) and 5a (Ødderade interstadial) are characterized by the production of flakes, points, and blades. Points were produced by a non-Levallois convergent unipolar technique.

The steppic soil, which indicates cooler conditions at the end of MIS 5a has preserved many Middle Paleolithic sites, including some with MTA-bifaces like those from the archaeological level in the upper humic horizon of Saint-Just-en-Chaussee and the Molinons site.

More information about the MTA with large triangular Bifaces can be found here: 1536 , 2054 , and here 2027 .

A rich and genuine bifacial Mousterian reappeared not before MIS 3 (St Brice-sous-Ranes with a TL date of 40.6 ± 2.2 ka BP, and possible St Julien de la Liegue).

About the Bifacial Mousterian in N/W-Franc see here: 1179 , 1501 , 1665 , 1250 , 1585 ,and here: 1077 .

Anyhow, there is a reappearance of in ensembles with bifaces typical of the Mousterian of Acheulean Tradition (Saint- Amand-les-Eaux, Ploisy) dating to MIS3.

The excavated submerged site of Fermanville-La Mondree, which is only one of several MP sites at Fermanville, is assigned to the end of MIS 5a with an OSL date of 69.7 ± 6 k.a. BP.

The blanks from the excavations were produced mainly by different modes of the Levallois technique (uni and bipolar) for the production of large flakes.

The Kombewa method is also contested. Scrapers, points and blades, similar to the items shown here are the secondary products of prepared core techniques at the site.

The beginning of MIS4 is marked by severe climatic deterioration. Northwestern Europe appears to have been abandoned by human populations between ca 68 and 60 k.a. BP.

Bad Times for „Le Nord“ are back again: please notice how politics have changed in France and read the Books of Jerome Leroy (for German readers note the last external link).

These books, more than any sociological analysis, help to understand the thinking of the Front National (FN) -a prototype of mental change in Europe to Authoritarianism and renewed Fascism.



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