Archaeology: study day "Land of Prehistory"

Thursday, March 16, 2023 took place the study day entitled «Terres de Préhistoire: sharing knowledge on the Paleolithic occupations of Northern France», organized by the regional service of archaeology (SRA) the DRAC Hauts-de-France and the University of Lille.

Offering scientific exchanges combining geology and archaeology, this study day was an opportunity to tribute to archaeologist Luc Vallin whose work contributed to the development of the regional Palaeolithic by evoking the main themes on which he worked during his career.

The University of Lille proposes to (re) discover the different interventions and conferences, which punctuated this March 16, 2023, thanks to 8 recordings.

Hauts-de-France, land of prehistory

Marked by a long tradition of research in prehistory, the Hauts-de-France do not cease to deliver unpublished and renewed data for the study of Palaeolithic settlements in the North of France, and to renew the problems. From the beginning of prehistory in the region, its study is closely associated with the Geology of the Quaternary.
The study of lithic industries in Hauts-de-France, associated with high-resolution sequences, allows a very fine approach to the material culture of Palaeolithic men and women.

Preventive archaeology and programmed archaeology

In a region strongly concerned by planning, preventive archaeology feeds discoveries and study of Palaeolithic cultures and Quaternary sequences. In parallel and complementary, programmed archaeology enriches over the years the knowledge of major sites, issues and regional syntheses.

Collective research projects

Thus, in recent years, new working dynamics have emerged through the establishment of collective research projects (PCR), which bring together and federate the living forces in prehistory in each region, giving a unitary framework to multiple researches on the Paleolithic occupations.

PROGRAM

AXIS 1: Contexts of Palaeolithic occupations

Under the presidency of SYLVAIN SORIANO

• Lœss-palaeosol sequences of the last interglacial-glacial cycle: key archives for recording abrupt climate and environmental changes and periglacial processes in Western Europe
  • intervenor : PIERRE ANTOINE

• 25 years of preventive diagnostics - Focus on some new Palaeolithic data from the North of Hauts-de-France
  • stakeholders : LAURENT DESCHODT, PHILIPPE FERAY

• Pleistocene formations around the coast of Normandy: state of knowledge and perspectives of geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental research
  • intervenor : GUILLAUME JAMET

AXIS 2: New approaches to material remains and contexts of Palaeolithic occupations

Under the presidency of SYLVAIN SORIANO

• Spatial analysis of the Palaeolithic remains. New methods, new models, archaeological implications
  • intervenor : MARC THOMAS

• Large fauna and small molecules: a successful marriage for the study of quaternary mammals in Hauts-de-France
  • stakeholders : PATRICK AUGUSTE, FABRICE BRAY

• Contribution of dynamic and spatial order data to the knowledge of the methods of learning flint size in the early Upper Palaeolithic. The site of Bourg-Charente (Charente)
  • intervenor : NELLY CONNET

AXIS 3: Contributions of preventive archaeology to the study of Palaeolithic occupations

under the presidency of ROXANE ROCCA

• Feedback on data acquired on the Seine-Nord Europe Canal project: the contribution of diagnostics to the understanding of Palaeolithic occupations
  • stakeholders and intervenor : JEAN-LUC LOCHT, SYLVIE COUTARD, PHILIPPE FERAY

• The results of the preventive search of Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine)
  • responders : SOPHIE CLÉMENT, GREGORY BAYLE, CÉLINE COUSSOT, ÉMILIE CLAUD, STÉPHANE LANCELOT, MARIE-ANNE JULIEN

AXIS 4: Contribution of programmed archaeology and collective research projects to the development of research on the Palaeolithic

under the presidency of ROXANE ROCCA

• Data and prospects for studying Gravettian occupations in Nord-Pas-de-Calais: the sites of Elnes, Hallines, Corbehem, Hermies (Pas-de-Calais) and Courchelettes (Nord)
  • intervenor : CLÉMENT PARIS

• The Middle Palaeolithic in Normandy: state of research
  • intervenor : DOMINIQUE CLIQUET

• Contributions and advances of the PCR PaléHauts for research in Hauts-de-France
  • responders : ÉMILIE GOVAL EMMANUELLE ALLART, PIERRE ANTOINE, PATRICK AUGUSTE, JEAN-JACQUES BAHAIN, PAULE COUDRET SYLVIE COUTARD, RUDY DEBIAK, PASCAL DEPAEPE, LAURENT DESCHODT, JEAN-PIERRE FAGNART, PHILIPPE FERAY, CAROLINE FONT, DAVID HERISSON, MARINA PAGLI, JESSICA LACARRIERE, JENNIFER LANTOINE, JEAN-LUC LOCHT, OLIVIER MOINE, CLÉMENT PARIS, NOÉMIE SEVEQUE AND LUC VALLIN

• Bapaume (Pas-de-Calais): contribution of preventive and programmed archaeology to the knowledge of a territory with high potential for the Middle Palaeolithic
  • stakeholders and intervenor : MARINA PAGLI, JEAN-LUC LOCHT, LUC VALLIN

• The contribution of the PCR PaléoEls to the development of research on prehistory and the Quaternary in Alsace
  • responders : HELOÏSE KOEHLER, FRANÇOIS BACHELLERIE, MAGALI FABRE, PATRICE WUSCHER, SIMON DIEMER, SYLVAIN GRISELIN, OLIVIER MOINE AND NOEMIE SEVEQUE