The Cave of Fontéchevade
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This book provides a summary of the discoveries made during the course of excavations at the Paleolithic cave site of Font chevade, 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 Font chevade I fossil is compatible with other evidence for the arrival of modern humans in Europe.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521898447
ISBN13:9780521898447
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 7.2" x 10.0"
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