GS5+S12B



GS5+S12B

Room 2.103

General Session of Lower Palaeolithic commission / Chronostratigraphic Frameworks and Data Disparity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Lower Paleolithic Interpretation

Session organizers: C. Viallet, M. Arzarello, M. Masojć, R. Rocca

GS5+S12B, Fri Sep 4 2026, 9:00 - 13:30, Room 2.103

9:00-9:20 - Kurdhana: Raw Material Influence on Acheulian Technology in the Marginal Ganga Basin, India / Srijan Singh, Pratik Pandey.

9:20-9:40 - Technological Continuity and Change across the Late Acheulean–Middle Palaeolithic Transition at Nakjhar Khurd” / Neha Singh.

9:40-10:00 - Acheulean Technological Behaviours in Northeastern Africa: Revisiting Evidence from Egypt and Sudan / Grzegorz Michalec.

10:00-10:20 - A compass in Europe? Italy during Lower Paleolithic: technical diversity, chrono-stratigraphic and environmental contexts / Marta Arzarello.

10:20-10:40 - The Acheulean’s Heart Valley: a Renewal Perspective of the Lower Palaeolithic in the Somme valley and Northern France / David Hérisson, et al.

10:40-11:00 - Biface industries in southern France during the Middle Pleistocene: a mosaic of technical behaviours / Cyril Viallet, et al.

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Compare the incomparable: how to grasp the diversity of Lower Palaeolithic toolkits (case study of Aldène and La Grande Vallée, France) / Svetlana Kuleshova, et al.

11:50-12:10 - Exploring The Lower Palaeolithic of The Tihodaïne Basin: Insights From The ET-W1 Acheulean Site / Hocine Sahnoun, et al.

12:10-12:30 - Contribution of fine scale geoarcheology to the study of the Middle Pleistocene sequence at the paleolithic site of Cimitero di Atella (Italy) / Eireen Lominé, et al.

12:30-12:50 - Confronting cave occupations to open-air sites in the Garonne Area. The case of Montmaurin caves and Esclignac site (South-West France) / Cyrielle Mathias, et al.

12:50-13:10 - Time of techniques, time of occupations, time of sediment, how do they hang together? The example of the Lower Palaeolithic site of Cimitero di Atella (Basilicata, Italy) / Daniele Aureli, et al. 

13:30-14:30 - Lunch