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Abstract
Although Wallonia was one of the first regions of Europe to have Stone Age prehistoric research (as early as the 1820’s) and once whose record had sometimes been considered to be largely exhausted, recent research has provided significant evidence for Holocity of the fluctuating human settlement of NW Europe during the course of the Upper Pleistocene and initial Holocene. Here we report on the excavation and interdisciplinary analysis of cave, rockshelter and open-air sites pertaining to the Mousterian, Aurignacian, Gravettian, Magdalenian and Mesolithic periods (c 100 kya–8 kya). A critical aspect of hunter-gatherer adaptations to southern Belgium in all periods was the juxtaposition of the cave-rich NW flank of the Ardennes upland with the flint-rich, loess-covered plains to the north, on the frontier of glacial age human habitation in western Europe.
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Bibliographical reference
Lawrence G. Straus, Marcel Otte, Achilles Gautier, Paul Haesaerts, Ignacio López Bayón, Philippe Lacroix, Anthony E. Martinez, Rebecca Miller, Jonathan Orphal and Aaron Stutz, « Late Quaternary prehistoric investigations in Southern Belgium », Préhistoire européenne, 11 | 1997, 1997.
Electronic reference
Lawrence G. Straus, Marcel Otte, Achilles Gautier, Paul Haesaerts, Ignacio López Bayón, Philippe Lacroix, Anthony E. Martinez, Rebecca Miller, Jonathan Orphal and Aaron Stutz, « Late Quaternary prehistoric investigations in Southern Belgium », Préhistoire européenne [Online], 11 | 1997, Online since 12 May 2026, connection on 21 June 2026. URL : https://popups.uliege.be/3041-5535/index.php?id=382
Authors
Lawrence G. Straus
University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, 87131-1086 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Marcel Otte
Université de Liège, Service de Préhistoire, Place du XX Août 7, Bât. A1, B-4000 Liège
Achilles Gautier
Université de Gand, Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Krijgslaan 281/S8, B-9000 Gent, Belgique
Paul Haesaerts
I.R.Sc.N.B., rue Vautier, 31, B-1000 Bruxelles, Belgique
Ignacio López Bayón
Université de Liège, Service de Préhistoire, Place du XX Août 7, Bât. A1, B-4000 Liège
Philippe Lacroix
Université de Liège, Service de Préhistoire, Place du XX Août 7, Bât. A1, B-4000 Liège
Anthony E. Martinez
University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, 87131-1086 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Rebecca Miller
University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, 87131-1086 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Jonathan Orphal
University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, 87131-1086 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Aaron Stutz
University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A.
