International conference
National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
November 19-20-21, 2014
European Acheuleans
Northern v. Southern Europe: Hominins, technical behaviour, chronological and environmental contexts
Marie-hélène Moncel (MNHN, Paris) and Danielle Schreve (RHUL, London) Final Program
15 minutes for the oral presentation and 5 minutes of questions
19th November 2014 10h00-10h45: Registration in the auditorium of the Grande Galerie de l’Evolution and welcome coffee break
10h45-11h00: Introduction to the conference, ANR project
Marie-hélène Moncel and Danielle Schreve
Hominins in Europe 11H00-11h20
Chris Stringer - Human evolution in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene.
11h20-11h40
Giorgio Manzi - Humans of the Middle Pleistocene: the case-study of Ceprano, Italy.
The Levant: Acheuleans at the gates of Europe 11h40-12h00
Rosalia Gallotti - The African origin of the European Acheulean technology: fact or paradigm?
12h00-12h20
Gonen Sharon - At the gate-way of Europe – Large Flake Acheulian and the Out of Africa scenario.
12h20-12h40
Reto Jagher et Jean-Marie LeTensorer - Evolution of Acheulean in Central Syria. Long-term variations and short-term changes of the bifacial traditions.
12h40-13h00
Michael Chazan - Variability in OIS 7: A view from the Levant.
13h00-14h15Lunch (Censier University restaurant) Acheuleans in Northern Europe 14h20-14h40
Matthew Pope, Beccy Scott and Lesley Blundell - The Acheulean of North European Landscapes: Understanding a complex record.
14h40-15h00
Mark Roberts - The Acheulian flake tools and utilised flakes from Boxgrove, West Sussex, UK: their contribution to the debate on resource procurement, processing, and patterns of discard.
15h00-15h20
Matthew Pope - The Valdoe: a new locality in the Boxgrove Palaeolandscape and Perspectives on
Middle Pleistocene Landscape Use
15h20-15h40
Antony Brown, Laura Basell - Site Distribution at the Edge of the Palaeolithic World: A Nutritional
Niche Approach.
15h40-16h00
Pierre Antoine, Marie-hélène Moncel, Jean-Luc Locht, Nicole Limondin-Lozouet, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Pierre Voinchet, Patrick Auguste, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Julie Dabkowski - Dating the earliest human occupation of Western Europe: new evidences from the fluvial terraces system of the Somme basin (Northern France): Abbeville ”Carrière Carpentier” and Amiens “Rue du Manège”
16h00-16h25
Coffee break
16h30-16h50
David Hérisson, Jean Airvaux, Arnaud Lenoble, Daniel Richter, Emilie Claud, Jerôme Primault - Between northern and southern regions in Western Europe, the Acheulean site of La Grande Vallée, Colombiers (Vienne, France).
16h50-17h10
Jackie Despriée, Gilles Courcimault, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Pierre Voinchet, Hélène Tissoux, Simon Puaud, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Davinia Moreno, Xavier Gallet, Christophe Falguères- Le site acheuléen de la Noira à Brinay (région Centre, France) : Caractérisation des matériaux siliceux et mise en évidence des choix et des comportements des homininés.
17h10-17h30
Anne-Lyse Ravon, Claire Gaillard, Jean-Laurent Monnier - Menez-Dregan (Plouhinec, Far Western
Europe): the lithic industry from layer 7 and its Acheulian components.
17h30-17-50
Nicole Limondin-Lozouet, Pierre Antoine, Patrick Auguste, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Sylvie Coutard, Julie Dabkowski, Bassam Ghaleb, Jean-Luc Locht, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Kirsty Penkman, P. Voinchet - Palaeoenvironmental contexts of Acheulean occupations from Northern France.
20th November 2014
10h00-10h20
Coffee break
10h20-10h40
Pierre Voinchet, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Davinia Moreno, Christophe Falguères, Hélène Tissoux, Olivier
Tombret, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Danielle Schreve, Ian Candy, Pierre Antoine, Nick Ashton, Matt Beamish, Dominique Cliquet, Jackie Despriée, Simon Lewis, Nicole Limondin-Lozouet, Jean-Luc Locht, Simon Parfitt, Matt Pope - New chronological data (ESR and ESR/U-series) for the earliest Acheulean sites of northwestern Europe.
Acheuleans in Southern Europe
10h40-11h00
Marina Mosquera, Palmira Saladié, Isabel Cáceres, Rosa Huguet, Andreu Ollé, Montserrat Esteban, Leticia Menéndez, Jaume Vilalta, Lluc Benàssar, Isabel Expósito, Sergio Ros, Josep Maria Vergès, María Soto, Juan José Villalaín, Ángel Carrancho, Eudald Carbonell and Josep Vallverdú - Barranc de la Boella (Catalonia, Spain): an Acheulean elephant butchery site at the European late Early Pleistocene.
11h00-11h20
Antoni Canals, Victoria Aranda, Nova Barrero, Lucía Bermejo, Paolo Donadei, Francisco J. García,
Dolores Mejías, Juan Marín, Mario Modesto, Abel Morcillo, Ana Rabazo, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Eudald Carbonell - Toward the West: The Acheulean complex of Santa-Anna Cave (Cáceres, Spain).
11h20-11h40
Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Manuel Santonja, Alfredo Pérez-González - Revision of the amphibians and
reptiles from the Acheulian site of Aridos-1 (Madrid, central Spain): paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental implications during MIS 11.
11h40-12h00
Manuel Santonja, Alfredo Pérez-González, Joaquín Panera, Susana Rubio, Eduardo Méndez - The coexistence of Ancient Middle Palaeolithic and Acheulean technocomplexes in the Middle Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula.
12h00-12h20
Javier Baena, Sergio Bárez, Concepción Torres, Marta Bravo, Jorge Vega, Irene Ortiz, Inmaculada Rus Terraces and plateaus: handaxe technology in the Acheulean-early Middle Paleolithic of the Madrid region (Spain).
12h20-12h40
Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Palmira Saladié and Andreu Ollé - Diachronic changes in the late
Acheulean: Monospecific to broad faunal spectrums at Atapuerca-Gran Dolina TD10 level.
Lunch (Censier University restaurant)
12h40-13h55
14h00-14h20
Andreu Ollé, Xosé Pedro Rodríguez, Marina Mosquera, Paula García-Medrano, Deborah Barsky, Arturo de Lombera, Eudald Carbonell - The European Acheulean from the Atapuerca perspective.
14h20-14h40
Laurence Bourguignon, Deborah Barsky, Ramon Capdevila, Jean-Yves Crochet, Jérôme Ivorra - The
stone tools from Stratigraphical Unit 4 of the Bois-de-Riquet site (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault, France):
a new milestone in the diversity of the European Acheulian.
14h40-15h00
Nelly Connet, Vincent Lhomme, Sylvain Soriano - Acheulian between north and south of the Western
Europe, the contribution of the site of Londigny (Charente, France).
15h00-15h20
Elena Rossoni-Notter, Olivier Notter, Patrick Simon, Suzanne Simone - The assemblages of the
Observatory (Monaco) and Prince (Balzi Rossi, Liguria, Italy) Caves: new studies and regional issues.
15h20-15h40
Anne-Marie Moigne, Sophie Grégoire, Vincenzo Celiberti, Henri de Lumley – Chronostratiphical continuity and diversity of the acheulean facies from 600 ka to 400 ka at the Caune de l'Arago Tautavel.
15h40-16h15
Coffee break
Acheuleans in South-Eastern Europe
16h20-16h40
Henry de Lumley, Marie-Antoinette de Lumley – Les cultures acheuléennes de la Caune de l’Arago à Tautavel et de la grotte du Lazaret à Nice. Présence et signification des restes humains du site acheuléen de la Caune de l'Arago (Tautavel, Pyrénées orientales).
16h40-17h00
Marcello Piperno, Sébastien Nomade, Alison Pereira, Christophe Falguères, Pierre Voinchet, David
Lefèvre, Jean-Paul Raynal, Jean-Jacques Bahain- New geochronological framework for the early
Middle Pleistocene Acheulian site of Notarchirico (Venosa, Basilicate, Italy)
17h00-17h20
Carmen Santagata - The open air site of Notarchirico (Italy): technical review of the production
systems of the ancient Acheulean from the lithological and morphological characteristics of the raw materials used.
17h20-17h40
Carlo Peretto, Marta Arzarello, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Mauro Coltorti, Alberto De Bonis, Eric Douville,
Christophe Falguères, Norbert Frank, Trustan Garcia, Giuseppe Lembo, Vincenzo Morra, Brunella Muttillo, Sébastien Nomade, Qingfeng Shao, Annamaria Perrotta, Pierluigi Pieruccini, Mariangela Rufo, Benedetto Sala, Claudio Scarpati, Ursula Thun Hohenstein, Umberto Tessari, Maria Chiara Turrini, Carmela Vaccaro - The Middle Pleistocene site of Guado San Nicola (Monteroduni, Southern Italy) in the context of the Italian Acheulean.
18h00-21h00
Poster session
Institut de Paléontologie Humaine (IPH), 1 rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris (10’ from the Museum)
18h30-19h00Lecture by Jean-Jacques Hublin: The Origin of Neandertals: Revisiting the Accretion Model 19h00 Dinner cocktail at the IPH