The during the Middle Palaeolithic: boundary or corridor?

COnference

15 16.05.2017 Sélestat ()

afeq excursion MAY 17-19,2017 THE ’S QUATERNARY

Univ. Lille, CNRS, MCC, UMR 8164 - HALMA

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The conference is organized The Rhine flows south to north by an international team from Archéologie Alsace (FR), in the heart of western and therefore Lille University (FR), CNRS laboratory AnTET (FR), constitutes a major circulation axis University (FR), Tübingen University (DE), linking northern and . University (CH) and Scladina Cave Archaeological Centre (BE), in connection with the work of the UISPP Furthermore, the width and power of this major Commission on The Settlement river, as well as changes of its flow type, Dynamics of the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone may have blocked for some periods exchanges Age (PT). between both animal and human populations Héloïse KOEHLER [email protected] located on both sides. +33 6 23 54 73 00 The role of the river – boundary or corridor – Nicholas CONARD [email protected] varied through time and is reflected by the

Kevin DI MODICA archaeological material recovered from both sides [email protected] of the river, reflecting a back and forth of a strong Agnès LAMOTTE regionalism added to external influences. [email protected]

Harald FLOSS [email protected] Archaeological evidences suggest the river

Fabio WEGMUELLER impacted human population since at least [email protected] the Middle Palaeolithic. Particularly, techno-typological differences With the financial support in the lithic assemblages composition of DRAC , Archéologie Alsace, allow to distinguish cultural areas centered AnTET laboratory, Tübingen University, on both eastern and western sides of the Rhine. Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel, However, the river does not appear Lille University, Strasbourg University as an impassable border as affinities have been and City of Sélestat. noticed between some archaeological assemblages www.archeologie.alsace from Germany, France and Belgium. conference

The conference This conference will bring together (lectures and posters) will be held preferably researchers from both sides of the Rhine in English. and from various disciplines. registration It aims at questioning the Middle Palaeolithic until March, 31th settlements through multiple scientific Conference free approaches for a better understanding including coffee breaks, the impact of the Rhine river on the human lunches and closing cocktail settlements, mobility and cultures. DINNER first speakers free participants 30 € The concerned area covers regions (registration to the dinner is mandatory) from both sides of the Rhine: Eastern France, Belgium, Western Germany, registration form Luxembourg, and Northern Switzerland. This wide geographical setting will allow to cross-examine sites from both sides of the river as well as to integrate into the discussion data coming from both open-air and cave sites.

Chronologically speaking, the entire Middle Palaeolithic period (ca 300,000 - to 35,000 BP) will be discussed, from its older manifestations and roots in the Lower Palaeolithic up to the extinction of Neandertals and to the shift to the Upper Palaeolithic. Monday, May 15

9h00 Reception 15h00 An overview of Middle Palaeolithic subsistence in southwestern Germany 9h30 Welcoming speech, presentation of the programme K. Kitagawa, S.C. Münzel, P. Krönneck, F. Séara, H. Koehler B. Starkovich, G. Toniato and N.J. Conard

10h00 The Middle Palaeolithic of the Rhineland 15h30 Coffee break G. Bosinski

Upper Rhine Upper Rhine (Switzerland) (Alsace, Lorraine - France)

10h30 The Middle Palaeolithic in the Southern End 15h45 The Rhine, boarder or highway ? of the Upper Rhine Plain Geomorphology, taphonomy and landscape-use R. Jagher archaeology in the south-western Upper Rhine during the last glacial-interglacial cycle 11h A view from the source – Mousterian sites P. Wuscher, H. Koehler, O. Moine, F. Bachellerie, in the Alpine Rhine F. Basoge, S. Goudissard, S. Griselin, F. Wegmüller N. Schneider, É. Boës, S. Diemer, N. Sévêque, A. Pracht and V. Villa 11h30 New archaeological center visit « Centre de Conservation et d’Étude (CCE) 16h15 The Middle Palaeolithic occupations of -Rain et Archéologie Alsace » (Alsace) H. Koehler, F. Wegmüller, B. Audiard, P. Auguste, 12h15 Buffet lunch J.-J. Bahain, H. Bocherens, S. Diemer, F. Preusser, C. Pümpin, N. Sévêque, E. Stoetzel, O. Tombret 13h15 Posters Presentation and P. Wuscher

16h45 Between petrographic diversity and techno- economical behaviors during the middle Paleolithic: Upper Rhine Some observations on the lithic raw material (Swabian Jura - Germany) management in the middle Rhine valley S. Diemer

17h15 New data on Middle Palaeolithic in Lorraine G. Asselin, J. Detrey, S. Diemer, S. Beguinot, M. Griette, B. Hamon, S. Schmit

17h45 First stratified Pleistocene sequences discovered during a rescue archaeology operation in Coussey (, Lorraine) L. Delaunay 14h Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites of the Swabian Jura S. Fröhle, B. Schürch, S. Wettengl and H. Floss 18h15 Discussions

14h30 Middle Palaeolithic variability as seen from the caves of the Swabian Jura N.J. Conard, M. Will, V. C. Schmid, Y. Tafelmaier 20h dinner at Sélestat and M. Bolus tuesday, May 16

Western margins north / north-western plains (Bourgogne - Franche-Comté - France) (Belgique, France)

9h00 Keilmesser assemblages in Southern Burgundy 14h30 Scladina Cave (Belgium): J.A. Frick, K. Herkert, C. Hoyer and H. Floss fire-production with marcasite/pyrite during the Late Middle Palaeolithic? 9h30 The Middle Paleolithic of the Côte Chalonnaise - D. Bonjean, K. Di Modica, G. Abrams chronology, technology and palethnological and E. Goemaere elements C. Hoyer, K. Herkert, R. Litzenberg and H. Floss 15h00 Chrono-cultural context of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in North-West Europe: 10h00 Panorama des civilisations au Paléolithique moyen new data from the Meuse basin en Bourgogne - Franche-Comté septentrionale K. Di Modica, I. De Groote, S. Pirson, D. Bonjean, A. Lamotte P. Depaepe, I. Jadin, C. Jungels, M. Toussaint, J. Richter and G. Abrams 10h30 Coffee break 15h30 Similarities and dissimilarities between northern 10h45 The Châtelperronian lithic industries of eastern France and neighboring areas (Belgium, Germany) France: Germolles and Châtelperron during the Middle Palaeolithic H. Würschem, C. Hoyer and H. Floss J.L. Locht 16h Le contexte faunique des occupations humaines Eastern plain durant le Paléolithique moyen en France (Germany) septentrionale et en Europe centrale : ruptures ou homogénéités ? P. Auguste

16h30 Feeding behaviours in the Middle Palaeolithic in Northern France: specificities or constants ? N. Sévêque

17h Discussions

18h15 Cocktail 11h15 Resource management and technological strategies in the Middle Palaeolithic on both sides of the Rhine: case studies from Western Germany Conference closure Y. Tafelmaier, A. Pastoors, M. Baales, E. Claßen, and excursion welcoming H. Hundsdörfer, C. Poser, S. Scherm and G.-C. Weniger

11h45 Technological variability, mobility and land use during the Middle Palaeolithic in central Rhine Valley n.J. Conard

12h30 Buffet lunch

13h15 Presentation and discussion around lithic series from Rhine valley at « Centre de Conservation et d’Étude (CCE) et Archéologie Alsace » posters

The Middle Palaeolithic of the High Rhine Valley T. Frey and H. Floss

Bifaces! Nouvelles perspectives à partir du Mâconnais et du Beaujolais H. Floss, D. Boysen and A.-C. Gros

Découverte ancienne de fossiles humains à Lahr E. Cornet

Villers-Chemin (Haute-Saône) : oriental mousterian at the burgundary doors A. Lamotte and Th. Desmadryl

Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites and findings in the canton of Basel-Stadt (Switzerland) I. Braun

Paléo-environnements et occupations humaines du Paléolithique moyen à Eguisheim (Haut-Rhin) F. Bachellerie, S. Goudissard and D. Schwartz

A Middle Palaeolithic sequence within the Meuse alluvial deposits at Coussey (Vosges) A. Gebarht and L. Delaunay

Bollschweil, a Middle Palaeolithic open-air site in the dating to the late Middle Pleistocene N.J. Conard and A.W. Kandel

The Middle Palaeolithic of the Swabian Jura. A review and update of old and new research B. Çep

Heidenschmiede, a Middle Palaeolithic Rock Shelter in Heidenheim. Fauna and Lithics re-visited S.C. Münzel and B. Çep

Organic artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithic of the Swabian Jura G. Toniato, K. Kitagawa, S.C. Münzel, B. Starkovich and N.J. Conard

Eemian: what’s up on the Western front? D. Hérisson, J.-L. Locht, L. Vallin, L. Deschodt, P. Antoine, P. Auguste, N. Limondin-Lozouet, A. Gauthier, G. Hulin, B. Masson, B. Ghaleb and C. Virmoux How to get there?

Agence st-dié strasbourg Culturelle d’Alsace 1 route de FR-67600 Sélestat locate Lat. 48.2555595°N Long. 7.4576093°E

railway Historic Centre STATION

TER Train from both Strasbourg avenue de la Liberté and Mulhouse TGV stations

rue Poincaré

Strasbourg- airport / shuttle to Strasbourg railway station / TER Train to Sélestat Agence or Culturelle d’Alsace Basel-Mulhouse airport / shuttle to Saint-Louis / colmar TER train to Sélestat 200 m 10 -15 min from the railway station

Ill river route de Marckolsheim

Agence Culturelle d’Alsace

Cce Archéologie

rue Champollion Alsace

100 m fieldtrip MAY 17-19

The fieldtrip will be held The conference will be followed by a 3 days in French. AFEQ excursion: “The Quaternary of the Upper Conference participants will have the possibility Rhine (France, Germany, and Switzerland)”. either to follow the whole fieldtrip or to attend only the first day, particularly focusing on the archaeological problematic with the visit of Middle Palaeolithic site and stratigraphy of Mutzig MAY, 17th and . 1 Forêt de transition plio-pléistocène BETSCHDORF organization 2 Mutzig haguenau dépôts de pente et occupation Patrice WUSCHER du Début-Glaciaire weichselien [email protected] 3 Achenheim Olivier MOINE séries loessiques [email protected] et cycles glaciaires achenheim mutzig MAY, 18th registration 4 bergsee (d) until March, 31th végétation et climat des derniers 35 000 ans 1 day LAST ENTRIES sélestat AVAILABLE 5 Möhlin (CH) dynamiques et impacts 90 € including hotel des glaciers régionaux in Sélestat 6 AUGST (CH) (1 night the day point de vue sur les terrasses before - May, 16th), alluviales rhénanes et cité Vœgtlinshoffen visit and lunch gallo-romaine westhalten

3 days FULL 7 PULVERSHEIM 300 € mines de potasse et histoire including hotel industrielle du Fossé rhénan pulversheim in Sélestat (3 nights), visit and lunches MAY, 19th 8 WESTHALTEN registration form agropastoralisme et orchidées BERGSEE https://afeq.hypotheses.org 9 Vœgtlinshoffen augst möhlin gisement paléolithique et histoire de la Préhistoire en Alsace 10 MUSSIG dynamiques alluviales holocènes du Ried 11 SÉLESTAT une ville sur l’Ill