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This book provides a summary of the discoveries made during the
course of excavations at the Paleolithic cave site of Fontechevade,
France, between 1994 and 1998. The excavation team used modern
field and analytic methods to address major problems raised by
earlier excavations at the site from 1937 to 1954. These earlier
excavations produced two sets of data that have been problematic in
light of data from other European Paleolithic sites: first, the
Lower Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Tayacian, that differs
in fundamental ways from other contemporary industries and, second,
the human skull fragment that has been interpreted as modern in
nature but that apparently dates from the last interglacial, long
before there is any evidence for humans from any other site in
Europe. By applying modern stratigraphic, lithic, faunal,
geological, geophysical, and radiometric analyses, the
interdisciplinary team demonstrates that the Tayacian industry is a
product of site formation processes and that the actual age of the
Fontechevade I fossil is compatible with other evidence for the
arrival of modern humans in Europe."
Summary of the discoveries made during the course of excavations at
the Paleolithic cave site of Fontechevade, France, between 1994 and
1998. The excavation team address major problems raised by earlier
excavations at the site from 1937 to 1954. These earlier
excavations produced two sets of problematic data : first, the
Lower Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Tayacian, that differs
in fundamental ways from other contemporary industries, second, the
human skull fragment that has been interpreted as modern in nature
but that apparently dates from the last interglacial, long before
there is any evidence for humans from any other site in Europe. By
applying modern stratigraphic, lithic, faunal, geological,
geophysical, and radiometric analyses, the interdisciplinary team
demonstrates that the Tayacian 'industry' is a product of site
formation processes and that the actual age of the Fontechevade I
fossil is compatible with other evidence for the arrival of modern
humans in Europe.
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