Environmental changes and cultural dynamics along the northern slope of the Pyrenees during the Younger Dryas

Michel Barbaza (1)

1 TRACES - Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés

Article history: Available online xxx a b s t r a c t Paradoxically, the region of the northern Pyrenean piedmont, a pioneering location for research on the very end of the last glacial period, suffers from a scarcity of recent and well-documented studies. A few recently or soon to be published sites nevertheless enable a presentation of the first elements of analysis and reflection in a global consideration of the societies of this period, which sees the concomitance of the Younger Dryas cold phase and the classic Pyrenean Azilian. A detailed examination of these two phenomena shows that their relationships are more complex than those of simple ecological determinism.

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire

Michel Barbaza. Environmental changes and cultural dynamics along the northern slope of the Pyrenees during the Younger Dryas. Quaternary International, 2011, 242 (2), pp.313-327. ⟨10.1016/j.quaint.2011.03.012⟩. ⟨hal-01995332⟩