Bois-de-Riquet (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault): A late Early Pleistocene archeological occurrence in southern France

Laurence Bourguignon 1, 2 Jean-Yves Crochet 3 Ramon Capdevila 4 Jérôme Ivorra 4 Pierre-Olivier Antoine 5 Jordi Agustí 6, 7, 8 Deborah Barsky 7, 8 Hugues-Alexandre Blain 7, 8 Nicolas Boulbes 9 Laurent Bruxelles 1 Julien Claude 5 David Cochard 10 Arnaud Filoux 11, 12 Cyril Firmat 13 Iván Lozano-Fernández 7, 8 Pierre Magniez 11, 14 Maxime Pelletier 14, 10 Joseba Rios-Garaizar 15 Agnès Testu 11 Patricia Valensi 16 Louis de Weyer 1
1 AnTET - Anthropologie des techniques, des espaces et des territoires au Pliocène et au Pléistocène
ArScAn - Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité
2 Inrap - Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives
3 ASPROGEO
4 PSN Pézenas - Société de Protection de la Nature du Piscénois
5 UMR ISEM - Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier
6 ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
7 IPHES - Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social
8 Area de Prehistoria
9 ASM - Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes
10 PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
11 HNHP - Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique
12 Palaeontological Research and Education Centre
13 Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology
14 LAMPEA - Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique
15 CENIEH - Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana
16 Musée de Préhistoire de Tourrette-Levens
Abstract : The Bois-de-Riquet archeological site (Lezignan-la-Cebe, Herault, France) provides significant paleontological and archeological data about the first occupations of Western Europe. Although only partially excavated, the site has already yielded an exceptionally rich paleontological assemblage as well as some stone artefacts. The archeostratigraphical unit "US2" is encased within a basalt flowstone radiometrically dated to 1.57 Ma. The sedimentary infill has preserved large and small mammal fossils, as well as coprolites. Biochronological interpretations suggest an age of around 1.3-1.1 Ma for the accumulation. A few basalt artefacts were exhumed alongside the fossil bones. Interpretation of the lithics has required the elaboration of a strict selection protocol based upon extensive knapping experiments with local basalt. This paper presents results from the interdisciplinary study of the Bois-de-Riquet site in the aim of contextualizing these discoveries. The microstratigraphical analysis of the deposits is presented with recent geological interpretations in order to contribute a better understanding of the main features of this assemblage, and its remarkable preservation within the thermal and textural boundary between a basalt flowstone's base and its entablature.
Mots-clés : pleistocene archéologie paléontologie humaine recherche interdisciplinaire basalte fossile
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Laurence Bourguignon, Jean-Yves Crochet, Ramon Capdevila, Jérôme Ivorra, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, et al.. Bois-de-Riquet (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault): A late Early Pleistocene archeological occurrence in southern France. Quaternary International, Elsevier, 2016, 393, pp.24-40. ⟨10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.037⟩. ⟨hal-01594870⟩

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