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Roc de
Marsal is a Middle Paleolithic cave in southwest France. It
was excavated by an amateur until 1971 and is best known for a
Neandertal fossil. New OSA excavations began there in 2004.
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- Abydos,
Egypt is a best known for its Egyptological
finds. Recently, we started a project in the High Desert behind
historic period Abydos to find and analyze Paleolithic sites.
This web site reports on the first survey season in 2000.
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- Pech
de l'Azé IV is a Middle Paleolithic rock-shelter
excavated by François Bordes during the 1970s. Stone tool
industries are mostly classic Mousterian but there is also a peculiar
Levallois industry that Bordes called Asinipodian. This web site
reports on our effort to clean, catalogue, study, and publish this
important site and its collections.
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- Combe-Capelle
Bas is an open-air, Middle Paleolithic
site. It was known primarily from the excavations of Henri-Marc
Ami. This web site, however, reports the results of new
excavations undertaken Dibble and Lenoir during the late 80s and early
90s.
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- Fontéchevade
is a classic cave site excavated by
Germaine Henri-Martin. It is famous for its Tayacian stone tool
industry and for two hominid fragments. This web site reports on
our new excavations at the site.
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- Cagny-l'Epinette
is one of the classic sites on the terraces
of the Somme Valley in northern France. It has been excavated for
over a decade by a team led by Alain Tuffreau. Over four years in
the early 1990s, we excavated, in collaboration with Tuffreau, one of
the levels thought to be a living floor. This brief site includes
the publication of our findings.
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| Other Excavations |
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- Le Malpas
is an Upper Paleolithic site in southwest France where excavations in
the late 1960s revealed Solutrean and Late Gravettian assemblages.
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- Solutré
is one of the classic Upper Paleolithic sites and
the name site for the Solutrean. The most recent excavations have
now been published and are reported on here.
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- The
1970s excavations by theMuseum of
Sarajevo and the University of Kansas at the
Northern
Bosnia site of Kadar
are reported here.
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