Emergence and development of an Upper Palaeolithic culture, the Magdalenian. The Taillis des Coteaux cave (Antigny, Vienne, France).
“The Magdalenian certainly is the technocomplex that has undergone the most profound upheaval over the last twenty years, both in terms of the characterisation of its identity and its chronological margins. Within this debate, the Taillis des Coteaux cave, opportunely discovered at the end of the 1990s, preserves a key archaeosequence covering almost the entire Upper Palaeolithic, and more specifically including the Badegoulian and early Magdalenian periods. The finesse of some of the recordings, the richness of archaeological assemblages and the sheer size of the excavated areas provide an unprecedented insight into the conditions in which the Magdalenian period emerged and developed, from the end of the Upper Plenigalcial period onwards.”
Pascaline Gaussein
©Oscar Fuentes
Marisol León