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Papers by Sylvie Philibert

Bulletin De Correspondance Hellenique, 1998

Un grand décapage de 430 m2, d'un seul tenant, bien que dessinant une surface à deux ang... more Un grand décapage de 430 m2, d'un seul tenant, bien que dessinant une surface à deux angles droits, a porté la superficie fouillée dans le secteur 1 à près de 1 300 m2. Dans une partie de l'aire dégagée en 1997 la sédimentation préhistorique conservée sous la terre arable, ...

Palethnologie

A preventive excavation conducted in the Chaloignes Valley (Mozé-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, Franc... more A preventive excavation conducted in the Chaloignes Valley (Mozé-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, France) in 1999, over a surface of approximately 9200 m², revealed ten homogeneous loci and a group of lithic scatters disturbed by post-depositional processes. Due to the absence of organic materials and the inclusion of all the loci within the same stratigraphic unit, we are forced to base nearly all hypotheses on the lithic remains alone. The challenge is to understand the economic organization and mobility strategies of human groups in the west at the end of the glacial period, obviously in association with their hunting practices. Several lines of evidence indicate frequent occupations by small groups, rather than base camps with complementary zones. An analysis of the usewear and fractures of weapon armatures show that these objects were used for hunting or war activities in all of the loci. Meanwhile, a techno-functional analysis of locus 1, where weapon elements were repaired, shows that other objects of material culture were also manufactured there. It appears that the notion of a hunting camp is inappropriate to describe Azilian activities that are apparently highly influenced by the mobility of the groups.

Palethnologie

Archéologie et sciences humaines 3 | 2011 Halte de chasse en préhistoire Chasse aux haltes sur un... more Archéologie et sciences humaines 3 | 2011 Halte de chasse en préhistoire Chasse aux haltes sur un site azilien de l'ouest de la France

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 15, 2016

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

The archaeological mission « Delta du Danube » is studying for more than six years the coevolutio... more The archaeological mission « Delta du Danube » is studying for more than six years the coevolution human-environment in the Danube Delta at the end of the Neolithic. This article offers a synthesis of the main results obtained from the analysis of the Gumelnița lithic industry in the Northern Dobrogea. The authors have taken into consideration both older collections as well as new ones discovered during the excavations deployed in the mentioned archaeological mission, most of all the tell settlement Taraschina (Maliuc commune). This variety of information allowed a good characterization of the Gumelnița lithic series discovered in the north of Dobrogea. The most important characteristic is represented by the import of raw material from the prebalkanic platform situated in the northeast of Bulgaria. These imports were oriented towards blade type products that were later transformed into a variety of finished objects. The typology is dominated by the end-scraper. A complete technological image will allow integrating the lithic information in the reflections regarding the socioeconomic and environmental changes inside Gumelnița societies.

International audienceThe Sauveterrian represents one of the main cultural aspects of the Early M... more International audienceThe Sauveterrian represents one of the main cultural aspects of the Early Mesolithic in Europe. Its recognition in southern France by L. Coulonge dates back to the beginning of last century. During the 1970s it was also identified in northeastern Italy (Adige Valley) by A. Broglio and some years later in Tuscany. In spite of these early attributions only a few works – essentially applying a typological approach – have attempted to compare the lithic complexes from northern Italy and southern France.By applying a techno-economic analysis to a broad set of assemblages distributed across northern Italy and southern France, a synthesis of Sauveterrian lithic technical systems has been attempted. This has made it possible to identify the general objectives of debitage and the reduction sequences applied by Sauveterrian groups along with some broad evolutionary trends over time. According to this technological perspective the same conceptual schemes are attested in t...

Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française

Recent research into the European Neolithisation process and the development of farming communiti... more Recent research into the European Neolithisation process and the development of farming communities reveals a diverse and complex cultural landscape. In the Western Mediterranean, it is now well known that the first agro-pastoral economy appears around 6000 BCE in south-eastern Italy and that part of these sites, often grouped under the generic term “Impressed Ware”, represent the departure point for the diffusion of the Neolithic economy. In this context, its rapid dispersal towards northern Italy and southern France is now interpreted as part of a pioneering colonization based on the use of maritime routes and preceding of several centuries the expansion of the Cardial culture. In southern France, archaeological settlements that make it possible to characterize this early stage of the Neolithisation process are still rare and do not have an equal value. The new discovery of an Impressa implantation at the site of ZAC de la Farigoule 2 (Aubord), in the Mediterranean Languedoc, give...

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2020

The Sauveterrian entity represents one of the main cultural aspects of the Early Mesolithic in Eu... more The Sauveterrian entity represents one of the main cultural aspects of the Early Mesolithic in Europe. Its recognition in southern France by L. Coulonge dates back to the beginning of last century. During the 1970s, it was also identified in northeastern Italy (Adige Valley) by A. Broglio and some years later in Tuscany. In spite of these early attributions only a few worksessentially applying a typological approachhave tried to compare the lithic complexes from Northern Italy and Southern France. By applying a techno-economical analysis to a wide set of assemblages distributed across northern Italy and southern France, a synthesis of Sauveterrian lithic technical systems has been attempted. It has thus been possible to identify the general objectives of débitage and reduction sequences applied by Sauveterrian groups along with some broad evolutionary trends along time. By the way some specific traits which may be connected to regional adaptations in relation to specific activities and local raw material availability have also been recognized.

In the western Mediterranean, the question of the settlement patterns of the first farming commun... more In the western Mediterranean, the question of the settlement patterns of the first farming communities remains a much debated issue. Frequently compared with the LBK model, based on hundreds of well-documented villages, the settlement organization of the Impressed Ware complex is still poorly characterized and highly diversified. New data obtained in Southern France (Languedoc)may shed light on this matter, based on new excavations, revised data, and a multi-proxy perspective (site type, domestic area, food supply strategies, activities, spheres of acquisition of raw material, and so forth). Rather than reproducing a pattern of site locations and settlement structuring, it seems that these Early Neolithic groups sought to optimize the location and structuring of their settlements in relation to the specific characteristics of the surrounding environment and available resources. We therefore propose that the diversity observed in the settlement organization of these first farming com...

Contemporary with the beginning of the western Mediterranean Neolithization, Peiro Signado is one... more Contemporary with the beginning of the western Mediterranean Neolithization, Peiro Signado is one of the oldest Neolithic settlements in the south of France. The site shows the installation, on the coast of Languedoc, of small pioneer groups with clearly Italian origins. The lithic industry is characterized by a bladelet production. Use-wear analysis brings to light the diversified forms of Neolithic economy corresponding to a technical system transported by the first settlers. This paper presents the first results of use-wear analysis that will be entirely published in the monograph of the site.Peer reviewe

Contemporary with the beginning of the western Mediterranean Neolithization, Peiro Signado is one... more Contemporary with the beginning of the western Mediterranean Neolithization, Peiro Signado is one of the oldest Neolithic settlements in the south of France. The site shows the installation, on the coast of Languedoc, of small pioneer groups with clearly Italian origins. The lithic industry is characterized by a bladelet production. Use-wear analysis brings to light the diversified forms of Neolithic economy corresponding to a technical system transported by the first settlers. This paper presents the first results of use-wear analysis that will be entirely published in the monograph of the site.

During the 7 th millennium BC, important changes occur in Western Europe. The lithic production f... more During the 7 th millennium BC, important changes occur in Western Europe. The lithic production focuses on regular blades, knapped by pressure or indirect percussion. These blades are often retouched with one or several notches, sometimes giving them a serrated appearance. We have studied a sample of notched blades coming from different late Mesolithic sites (7 th and 6 th millennium BC) in France and Belgium. The wear analysis of these tools shows that the notches are the result of a voluntary retouch and are used as scraping tools. The variability of the observed wear traces suggests that different materials have been scraped, among them different vegetal materials. This preliminary study presents our first results, some functional hypotheses and a discussion about the place of the notched blades in the lithic toolkit.

Économie et société de la fin de la Préhistoire : Actualité de la recherche, 2010

HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific re... more HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.

Open Archaeology, 2021

In the western Mediterranean, the question of the settlement patterns of the first farming commun... more In the western Mediterranean, the question of the settlement patterns of the first farming communities remains a much debated issue. Frequently compared with the LBK model, based on hundreds of well-documented villages, the settlement organization of the Impressed Ware complex is still poorly characterized and highly diversified. New data obtained in Southern France (Languedoc) may shed light on this matter, based on new excavations, revised data, and a multi-proxy perspective (site type, domestic area, food supply strategies, activities, spheres of acquisition of raw material, and so forth). Rather than reproducing a pattern of site locations and settlement structuring, it seems that these Early Neolithic groups sought to optimize the location and structuring of their settlements in relation to the specific characteristics of the surrounding environment and available resources. We therefore propose that the diversity observed in the settlement organization of these first farming co...

Materiale şi cercetãri arheologice (Serie nouã), 2017

The archaeological mission « Delta du Danube » is studying for more than six years the coevolutio... more The archaeological mission « Delta du Danube » is studying for more than six years the coevolution human-environment in the Danube Delta at the end of the Neolithic. This article offers a synthesis of the main results obtained from the analysis of the Gumelnița lithic industry in the Northern Dobrogea. The authors have taken into consideration both older collections as well as new ones discovered during the excavations deployed in the mentioned archaeological mission, most of all the tell settlement Taraschina (Maliuc commune). This variety of information allowed a good characterization of the Gumelnița lithic series discovered in the north of Dobrogea. The most important characteristic is represented by the import of raw material from the prebalkanic platform situated in the north-east of Bulgaria. These imports were oriented towards blade type products that were later transformed into a variety of finished objects. The typology is dominated by the end-scraper. A complete technolog...

Quaternary International, 2019

Recent excavations at Taraschina, southeastern Romania, have revealed an extensive Chalcolithic s... more Recent excavations at Taraschina, southeastern Romania, have revealed an extensive Chalcolithic settlement in the heart of the Danube Delta. Based on ceramic data, Taraschina was attributed to the Gumelniţa Culture and dated to the mid 5th millennium BC by radiocarbon dating. Phytolith analysis was conducted at Taraschina in order to reconstruct some activities carried out by the Chalcolithic populations in the Danube Delta. The study was undertaken on the site sediments, as well as on additional deposits sampled around the site by coring. The results show that phytoliths characterizing cereal processing are attested in archaeological deposits, as well as in the surrounding sequence. Our study highlights an important signal of cereal processing in the heart of the Danube Delta, 6000 years ago.

Bulletin De Correspondance Hellenique, 1998

Un grand décapage de 430 m2, d'un seul tenant, bien que dessinant une surface à deux ang... more Un grand décapage de 430 m2, d'un seul tenant, bien que dessinant une surface à deux angles droits, a porté la superficie fouillée dans le secteur 1 à près de 1 300 m2. Dans une partie de l'aire dégagée en 1997 la sédimentation préhistorique conservée sous la terre arable, ...

Palethnologie

A preventive excavation conducted in the Chaloignes Valley (Mozé-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, Franc... more A preventive excavation conducted in the Chaloignes Valley (Mozé-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, France) in 1999, over a surface of approximately 9200 m², revealed ten homogeneous loci and a group of lithic scatters disturbed by post-depositional processes. Due to the absence of organic materials and the inclusion of all the loci within the same stratigraphic unit, we are forced to base nearly all hypotheses on the lithic remains alone. The challenge is to understand the economic organization and mobility strategies of human groups in the west at the end of the glacial period, obviously in association with their hunting practices. Several lines of evidence indicate frequent occupations by small groups, rather than base camps with complementary zones. An analysis of the usewear and fractures of weapon armatures show that these objects were used for hunting or war activities in all of the loci. Meanwhile, a techno-functional analysis of locus 1, where weapon elements were repaired, shows that other objects of material culture were also manufactured there. It appears that the notion of a hunting camp is inappropriate to describe Azilian activities that are apparently highly influenced by the mobility of the groups.

Palethnologie

Archéologie et sciences humaines 3 | 2011 Halte de chasse en préhistoire Chasse aux haltes sur un... more Archéologie et sciences humaines 3 | 2011 Halte de chasse en préhistoire Chasse aux haltes sur un site azilien de l'ouest de la France

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 15, 2016

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

The archaeological mission « Delta du Danube » is studying for more than six years the coevolutio... more The archaeological mission « Delta du Danube » is studying for more than six years the coevolution human-environment in the Danube Delta at the end of the Neolithic. This article offers a synthesis of the main results obtained from the analysis of the Gumelnița lithic industry in the Northern Dobrogea. The authors have taken into consideration both older collections as well as new ones discovered during the excavations deployed in the mentioned archaeological mission, most of all the tell settlement Taraschina (Maliuc commune). This variety of information allowed a good characterization of the Gumelnița lithic series discovered in the north of Dobrogea. The most important characteristic is represented by the import of raw material from the prebalkanic platform situated in the northeast of Bulgaria. These imports were oriented towards blade type products that were later transformed into a variety of finished objects. The typology is dominated by the end-scraper. A complete technological image will allow integrating the lithic information in the reflections regarding the socioeconomic and environmental changes inside Gumelnița societies.

International audienceThe Sauveterrian represents one of the main cultural aspects of the Early M... more International audienceThe Sauveterrian represents one of the main cultural aspects of the Early Mesolithic in Europe. Its recognition in southern France by L. Coulonge dates back to the beginning of last century. During the 1970s it was also identified in northeastern Italy (Adige Valley) by A. Broglio and some years later in Tuscany. In spite of these early attributions only a few works – essentially applying a typological approach – have attempted to compare the lithic complexes from northern Italy and southern France.By applying a techno-economic analysis to a broad set of assemblages distributed across northern Italy and southern France, a synthesis of Sauveterrian lithic technical systems has been attempted. This has made it possible to identify the general objectives of debitage and the reduction sequences applied by Sauveterrian groups along with some broad evolutionary trends over time. According to this technological perspective the same conceptual schemes are attested in t...

Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française

Recent research into the European Neolithisation process and the development of farming communiti... more Recent research into the European Neolithisation process and the development of farming communities reveals a diverse and complex cultural landscape. In the Western Mediterranean, it is now well known that the first agro-pastoral economy appears around 6000 BCE in south-eastern Italy and that part of these sites, often grouped under the generic term “Impressed Ware”, represent the departure point for the diffusion of the Neolithic economy. In this context, its rapid dispersal towards northern Italy and southern France is now interpreted as part of a pioneering colonization based on the use of maritime routes and preceding of several centuries the expansion of the Cardial culture. In southern France, archaeological settlements that make it possible to characterize this early stage of the Neolithisation process are still rare and do not have an equal value. The new discovery of an Impressa implantation at the site of ZAC de la Farigoule 2 (Aubord), in the Mediterranean Languedoc, give...

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2020

The Sauveterrian entity represents one of the main cultural aspects of the Early Mesolithic in Eu... more The Sauveterrian entity represents one of the main cultural aspects of the Early Mesolithic in Europe. Its recognition in southern France by L. Coulonge dates back to the beginning of last century. During the 1970s, it was also identified in northeastern Italy (Adige Valley) by A. Broglio and some years later in Tuscany. In spite of these early attributions only a few worksessentially applying a typological approachhave tried to compare the lithic complexes from Northern Italy and Southern France. By applying a techno-economical analysis to a wide set of assemblages distributed across northern Italy and southern France, a synthesis of Sauveterrian lithic technical systems has been attempted. It has thus been possible to identify the general objectives of débitage and reduction sequences applied by Sauveterrian groups along with some broad evolutionary trends along time. By the way some specific traits which may be connected to regional adaptations in relation to specific activities and local raw material availability have also been recognized.

In the western Mediterranean, the question of the settlement patterns of the first farming commun... more In the western Mediterranean, the question of the settlement patterns of the first farming communities remains a much debated issue. Frequently compared with the LBK model, based on hundreds of well-documented villages, the settlement organization of the Impressed Ware complex is still poorly characterized and highly diversified. New data obtained in Southern France (Languedoc)may shed light on this matter, based on new excavations, revised data, and a multi-proxy perspective (site type, domestic area, food supply strategies, activities, spheres of acquisition of raw material, and so forth). Rather than reproducing a pattern of site locations and settlement structuring, it seems that these Early Neolithic groups sought to optimize the location and structuring of their settlements in relation to the specific characteristics of the surrounding environment and available resources. We therefore propose that the diversity observed in the settlement organization of these first farming com...

Contemporary with the beginning of the western Mediterranean Neolithization, Peiro Signado is one... more Contemporary with the beginning of the western Mediterranean Neolithization, Peiro Signado is one of the oldest Neolithic settlements in the south of France. The site shows the installation, on the coast of Languedoc, of small pioneer groups with clearly Italian origins. The lithic industry is characterized by a bladelet production. Use-wear analysis brings to light the diversified forms of Neolithic economy corresponding to a technical system transported by the first settlers. This paper presents the first results of use-wear analysis that will be entirely published in the monograph of the site.Peer reviewe

Contemporary with the beginning of the western Mediterranean Neolithization, Peiro Signado is one... more Contemporary with the beginning of the western Mediterranean Neolithization, Peiro Signado is one of the oldest Neolithic settlements in the south of France. The site shows the installation, on the coast of Languedoc, of small pioneer groups with clearly Italian origins. The lithic industry is characterized by a bladelet production. Use-wear analysis brings to light the diversified forms of Neolithic economy corresponding to a technical system transported by the first settlers. This paper presents the first results of use-wear analysis that will be entirely published in the monograph of the site.

During the 7 th millennium BC, important changes occur in Western Europe. The lithic production f... more During the 7 th millennium BC, important changes occur in Western Europe. The lithic production focuses on regular blades, knapped by pressure or indirect percussion. These blades are often retouched with one or several notches, sometimes giving them a serrated appearance. We have studied a sample of notched blades coming from different late Mesolithic sites (7 th and 6 th millennium BC) in France and Belgium. The wear analysis of these tools shows that the notches are the result of a voluntary retouch and are used as scraping tools. The variability of the observed wear traces suggests that different materials have been scraped, among them different vegetal materials. This preliminary study presents our first results, some functional hypotheses and a discussion about the place of the notched blades in the lithic toolkit.

Économie et société de la fin de la Préhistoire : Actualité de la recherche, 2010

HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific re... more HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.

Open Archaeology, 2021

In the western Mediterranean, the question of the settlement patterns of the first farming commun... more In the western Mediterranean, the question of the settlement patterns of the first farming communities remains a much debated issue. Frequently compared with the LBK model, based on hundreds of well-documented villages, the settlement organization of the Impressed Ware complex is still poorly characterized and highly diversified. New data obtained in Southern France (Languedoc) may shed light on this matter, based on new excavations, revised data, and a multi-proxy perspective (site type, domestic area, food supply strategies, activities, spheres of acquisition of raw material, and so forth). Rather than reproducing a pattern of site locations and settlement structuring, it seems that these Early Neolithic groups sought to optimize the location and structuring of their settlements in relation to the specific characteristics of the surrounding environment and available resources. We therefore propose that the diversity observed in the settlement organization of these first farming co...

Materiale şi cercetãri arheologice (Serie nouã), 2017

The archaeological mission « Delta du Danube » is studying for more than six years the coevolutio... more The archaeological mission « Delta du Danube » is studying for more than six years the coevolution human-environment in the Danube Delta at the end of the Neolithic. This article offers a synthesis of the main results obtained from the analysis of the Gumelnița lithic industry in the Northern Dobrogea. The authors have taken into consideration both older collections as well as new ones discovered during the excavations deployed in the mentioned archaeological mission, most of all the tell settlement Taraschina (Maliuc commune). This variety of information allowed a good characterization of the Gumelnița lithic series discovered in the north of Dobrogea. The most important characteristic is represented by the import of raw material from the prebalkanic platform situated in the north-east of Bulgaria. These imports were oriented towards blade type products that were later transformed into a variety of finished objects. The typology is dominated by the end-scraper. A complete technolog...

Quaternary International, 2019

Recent excavations at Taraschina, southeastern Romania, have revealed an extensive Chalcolithic s... more Recent excavations at Taraschina, southeastern Romania, have revealed an extensive Chalcolithic settlement in the heart of the Danube Delta. Based on ceramic data, Taraschina was attributed to the Gumelniţa Culture and dated to the mid 5th millennium BC by radiocarbon dating. Phytolith analysis was conducted at Taraschina in order to reconstruct some activities carried out by the Chalcolithic populations in the Danube Delta. The study was undertaken on the site sediments, as well as on additional deposits sampled around the site by coring. The results show that phytoliths characterizing cereal processing are attested in archaeological deposits, as well as in the surrounding sequence. Our study highlights an important signal of cereal processing in the heart of the Danube Delta, 6000 years ago.

La fouille préventive menée dans les vallons des Chaloignes (Mozé-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, Fran... more La fouille préventive menée dans les vallons des Chaloignes (Mozé-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, France) en 1999 a permis de dégager sur environ 9200 m², dix locus aziliens homogènes et une série d’épandages lithiques affectés par des perturbations post-dépositionnelles. L’absence de restes organiques et le fait que tout les locus reposaient dans la même unité stratigraphique imposent de faire reposer l’essentiel des hypothèses sur le témoignage lithique. L’enjeu est de comprendre l’organisation économique et la mobilité des groupes humains dans l’Ouest de la France à la fin des temps glaciaires, en lien bien évidemment avec les pratiques cynégétiques. À la lecture de plusieurs indicateurs émerge l’hypothèse d’occupations fréquentes par de petits groupes distincts, plutôt que celle de campements aux aires complémentaires. Une analyse des traces d’usage et des fractures sur les armatures montre une utilisation de ces objets dédiés à la chasse ou à la guerre sur tous les locus. Cependant, une analyse techno-fonctionnelle menée sur le locus 1, où la réfection d’armes est pourtant particulièrement manifeste, montre également une préparation d’autres biens matériels. Il apparaît que la notion de halte de chasse est inappropriée pour décrire des pratiques aziliennes apparemment très marquées par la mobilité des groupes.

During the 7th and 6th millenniums BC, major changes occurred over a widespread area in the lithi... more During the 7th and 6th millenniums BC, major changes occurred over a widespread area in the lithic industries of the late Mesolithic. We focused our research on notched blades and bladelets knapped by pressure or indirect percussion. We managed to define this technical process by Late Mesolithic Notched Blades from Western Europe and North Africa showing that these notches result from voluntary retouch, with variability in retouch modes and in uses (different operating processes and worked materials). It is a simple technical concept, connected to the recurring mode of operation, but with varied functional purposes that comes out as a result of this survey carried out in France, Belgium, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia.

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2019

An exceptional discovery was made in 2013 in the northern French Alps, at the Grande Rivoire site... more An exceptional discovery was made in 2013 in the northern French Alps, at the Grande Rivoire site in Sassenage (Isère department): an obsidian bladelet from Sardinia was found in a cultural horizon dated to about 5360-5210 CAL B.C. The abundant arrowheads found with it are characteristic of the Early Neolithic in the South of France (Cardial/Epicardial). Yet there was no pottery or domestic fauna, and only discrete markers of farming. The typological, technological and micro-wear analysis of this bladelet, as well as the determination of the origin of the raw material, open new avenues of reflection for the neolithization of the northern Alps, in particular concerning the role played by the Early Neolithic cultures of northern Italy.