Chronology of the Upper Pleistocene loess sequence of Havrincourt (France) and associated Palaeolithic occupations: a Bayesian approach from pedostratigraphy, OSL, radiocarbon, TL and ESR/U-series data - Inrap - Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Quaternary Geochronology Année : 2017

Chronology of the Upper Pleistocene loess sequence of Havrincourt (France) and associated Palaeolithic occupations: a Bayesian approach from pedostratigraphy, OSL, radiocarbon, TL and ESR/U-series data

Guillaume Jamet
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Anne Philippe

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In connection with the future Seine-North Europe Canal (Seine-Scheldt), a large-scale rescue archaeological survey was conducted at Havrincourt (northern France) between 2008 and 2011. The discovery of several levels of Palaeolithic flint artefacts embedded in a relatively thick loess sequence (ca 6–7 m) preserved on a gentle slope facing North-East, resulted in a 6000 m2 excavation. This opened the opportunity for a detailed pedosedimentary and interdisciplinary geochronological survey (14C, optically stimulated luminescence, thermoluminescence, ESR/U-series) that has allowed us date the sequence reliably. On the basis of these results we propose this sequence as a new pedostratigraphic and archaeological reference sequence for northern France. We present here the optical dating of the sequence performed on fine (4–11 μm) quartz grains extracted from 17 samples. The luminescence characteristics of these extracts indicate that the single-aliquot regenerative dose optically stimulated luminescence (SAR-OSL) procedure that was applied is well suited. A consistent set of optical ages was obtained for the loess deposited up to around 70 ka ago. Independent age control (pedostratigraphy, 14C, ESR/U-series dates) allowed us to apply a Bayesian approach to build a chronometric model. This in turn enabled a regional chronostratigraphic framework to be built, to constrain the correlations with neighboring regions (northern France and Belgium) and to calculate a precise age for the four Palaeolithic levels discovered, including a unique occupation related to the early Upper Palaeolithic which was previously unknown in the area.
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hal-01584140 , version 1 (22-09-2022)

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Gilles Guérin, Pierre Antoine, Esther Schmidt, Emilie Goval, David Hérisson, et al.. Chronology of the Upper Pleistocene loess sequence of Havrincourt (France) and associated Palaeolithic occupations: a Bayesian approach from pedostratigraphy, OSL, radiocarbon, TL and ESR/U-series data. Quaternary Geochronology, 2017, 42, pp.15-30. ⟨10.1016/j.quageo.2017.07.001⟩. ⟨hal-01584140⟩
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