The Grotte du Placard at 150: New Considerations on an Exceptional Prehistoric Site

Contents

‘FOREWORD’ (François Bonneau) ;

‘FOREWORD’ (Jean-François Tournepiche) ;

‘PREFACE; INTRODUCING LE PLACARD’ (Christophe DELAGE) ;

‘ARTHUR DE MARET AND HIS EXCAVATIONS OF THE CAVE OF LE PLACARD (1877-1888): A NEGLECTED MOMENT IN THE PREHISTORY OF THE CHARENTE’ (Christophe DELAGE) ;

‘ADRIEN DE MORTILLET, THE AURIGNACIAN AND THE ARTHUR DE MARET COLLECTION (Philippe ROUX) [Open Access: Download] ;

‘BREUIL, LE PLACARD AND THE MAGDALENIAN’ (Christophe DELAGE) ;

‘THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LE PLACARD CAVE (VILHONNEUR, CHARENTE) AT THE MUSÉE D’ARCHÉOLOGIE NATIONALE IN SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE’ (Catherine SCHWAB) ;

‘A SENSITIVE APPROACH TO THE CAVE OF LE PLACARD’ (Anne-Paule MOUSNIER (Translation Jean Bonnin)) ;

‘THE LE PLACARD NATURAL SURROUNDINGS AND LE PLACARD 2, THE LOWER KARSTIC NETWORK (Pierre VAUVILLIER, Bruno DELAGE and Christophe DELAGE) ;

‘REVISITING THE LE PLACARD RADIOMETRIC CHRONOLOGY’ (Christophe DELAGE) ;

‘NEW ANTLER, SHELL, AND TOOTH TECHNOLOGY FROM LA GROTTE DU PLACARD (COMMUNE DE VILHONNEUR, CHARENTE)’ (Michelle C. LANGLEY and Christophe DELAGE) ;

‘CALLING FOR THE DEER. AN EUNUCH FLUTE AT LE PLACARD?’ (Carlos GARCÍA-BENITO, Carlos MAZO PÉREZ & Marta ALCOLEA GRACIA) ; ‘THE LE PLACARD SPEARTHROWERS’ (Pierre CATTELAIN);

‘THE MAGDALENIAN ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF LE PLACARD’ (Claudine GRAVEL-MIGUEL) ;

‘ART DURING THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM IN WESTERN EUROPE’ (François DJINDJIAN) ;

‘WAS LE PLACARD USED BY SECRET SOCIETIES?’ (Brian HAYDEN) ;

About the Author

Christophe Delage (Ph.D., 2001, University of Paris 1-Sorbonne) is a specialist of lithic raw material sourcing and chipped stone industries. He has been working in the Southern Levant (Israel and Jordan) for 25 years and in Southwest France (Charente and Vienne) on the Magdalenian for about 10 years. He has published various articles and edited books related to these topics. He is currently affiliated with the Department of Prehistory, National Museum of Natural History (Paris).

Reviews

This volume constitutes an unexpected, original and often extremely interesting introduction to the publication of the latest excavations, that we hope will come out soon. - Sylvain Ducasse (2020): Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française