Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-mwx4w Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-17T16:53:07.642Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Some observations on the Pleistocene succession in the Somme Valley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

F. Bordes
F. Bordes
Affiliation:
Maître de Recherches, Centre National français de Recherches Scientifiques
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Since the work of Breuil and Koslowski on the Somme Valley and the publication of a summary of this work in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, new finds have been made, and new points of view developed. I shall not give here a restatement of Breuil's work, but rather indicate the points where our interpretation differs and give our reasons for differing.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 22 , March 1957 , pp. 1 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1957

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 1 note 1 L'Anthropologie, t. 41, 1931, pp. 449–88Google Scholar; t. 42, 1932, pp. 28–47 and 291–314.

page 1 note 2 Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1939, vol. V, part I, pp. 33–8Google Scholar.

page 1 note 3 In our sense, the shape of the flake being predetermined by the preparation of the core, with or without a faceted platform.

page 2 note 1 Proc. Prehist. Soc. 1939, vol. V, part I, p. 35Google Scholar.

page 2 note 2 ibid.

page 2 note 3 Bordes, F. and Fitte, P., ‘L'Atelier Commont’, L'Anthropologie, t. 57, 1953, pp. 1–45Google Scholar, 29 plates (p. 22, note 4).

page 2 note 4 Bordes, F. ‘Sur des phénomènes de cryoturbation observés dans les loess du bassin de Paris’, Compterendus sommaires de la Société géologique de France, no. 3, 1950, pp. 35–7Google Scholar.

page 2 note 5 Bordes, F., ‘Technique Levallois et “Levalloisien ancien”,’ L'Anthropologie t. 56, 1952, pp. 554–6Google Scholar.

page 3 note 1 Bordes, F., ‘L'Acheuléen moyen de Vassincourt (Meuse) et la question de l'Acheuléen “froid”,’ Bull. de la Soc. Préhistorique française, t. 52, 1955, pp. 155–62Google Scholar.

page 3 note 2 These two solifluxions would give, in the Middle Terrace, both according to Breuil's scheme and mine, Clactonian or Acheulian. One cannot help wondering why, in the ‘10-metre terrace’, the same solifluxions give Levalloisian I and II, and are ‘absolutely devoid of axes in the Somme’.

page 3 note 3 Commont, V., ‘Saint-Acheul et Montières’, Mém. de la Soc. géol. du Nord, 1909, pp. 57Google Scholar et seq.; ‘Moustérien à faune chaude dans la vallée de la Somme à Montières-lès-Amiens’, Congr. international d'Anthropologie et d'Archéologie préhistoriques. Genève, 1912, pp. 291Google Scholaret seq.

page 4 note 1 ‘La plus ancienne industrie de Saint-Acheul,’ L'Anthropologie, t. 30, 1920, p. 448Google Scholar, note 4.

page 4 note 2 ‘Considérations de chronologie paléolithique …’ Bull. de la Société normande d'études préhistoriques, t. 34, 1946Google Scholar.

page 5 note 1 We have already discussed more thoroughly this question in ‘L'evolution buissonnante des industries …’, L'Anthropologie, t. 54, 1950, pp. 392–420Google Scholar.

page 5 note 2 Bordes, F., ‘Les limons quaternaires du bassin de la Seine’, Arch. de l'Institut de Paléontologie humaine, mém. 26, pp. 357Google Scholaret seq.

page 5 note 3 But here the total absence of hand-axes is perhaps due to the smallness of the area excavated in this layer.

page 5 note 4 F. Bordes, ibid. p. 77 et seq.

page 5 note 5 After seeing the Hazzledine Warren collection from Clacton I wonder if there is any relation, other than similar technique, between Clacton and High Lodge.