Diversité technique des débitages laminaires au Néolithique ancien a Vaux-et-Borset (Hesbaye, Belgique) : manieres de faire, problemes d’interprétation et perspectives anthropologiques
| Title in English | Technical diversity of blade debitage in the Early Neolithic at Vaux-et-Borset (Hesbaye, Belgium): ways of doing things, problems of interpretation and anthropological perspectives |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française |
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| Keywords | Early Neolithic; lithic industry; blade production; technical traditions; Linear Pottery Culture; Blicquy/ Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture |
| Description | This study explores the technical diversity of blade production in the Linear Pottery Culture and Blicquy/ Villeneuve-Saint-Germain villages of Vaux-et-Borset (Hesbaye, Belgium). This technical diversity is essentially defined by a differential treatment of striking platefotms and preparations for blade detachment. These differences do not lead to the production of blanks for specific tools. Nor are they justified by the intrinsic qualities of the raw materials. In a context of equivalent production, we propose that this technical variability reflects different ways of doing things among the knappers of the village of Vaux-et-Borset. The recognition of a true continuity of certain ways of doing things between the Linear Pottery Culture and the Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture attests to their transmission over time. This transmission is a sign of the coexistence of at least two learning networks in the Early Neolithic period. In addition, the Linear Pottery Culture knappers of the village of Vaux-et-Borset seem to come almost all from the same learning network, contrary to the four distinguished groups among the blicquian knappers. The diversity of technical practices and traditions during the Blicquien is discussed. In the present state of the data, it seems that it may result both from the mobility of neighbouring populations and from the syncretism of certain traditions. |