S13A



S13A

Room 2.21

Technology, subsistence, and spatial dynamics in Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age territories / Technologie, subsistance et dynamiques spatiales dans les territoires du Paléolithique moyen et du Middle Stone Age

Session organizers: M. Gema Chacón, Amy Clark, Cyrielle Mathias (Session organized by the Middle Paleolithic Middle Stone Age UISPP commission)

S13A, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 18:00, Room 2.21

9:00-9:20 - Introduction to the Session / Chacón, Clark, Mathias

9:20-9:40 - Towards a Better Understanding of Middle Palaeolithic Hunting Sites in Central Europe: New Data from the Zwoleń Site (Poland)/  Pyżewicz et al.

9:40-10:00 - A technological biography of a Middle Palaeolithic leaf point from Hohle Fels Cave / Lech et al.

10:00-10:20 - A sporadic settlement in an ocean of data: what role did Ailly-sur-Noye play in the mobility patterns of the Late Middle Palaeolithic in northern France and north-western Europe? / Kabruk et al.

10:20-10:40 - New Evidence for Middle Palaeolithic Settlement on the Plateau North of Tours (Indre-et-Loire, France): Technology, Stratigraphy, and Territorial Dynamics along the Middle Loire Valley / Ahmed & Brenet

10:40-11:00 - Neanderthal occupations in northwestern France: a study of faunal remains from La Roche-Cotard (Indre-et-Loire, France) / Demay et al.

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Adaptation to local lithic resources: the example of the Route de Brial site (Montbartier, France) in the Late Middle Palaeolithic / Cara et al.

11:50-12:10 - Rethinking the Middle Palaeolithic of Central Languedoc (France): New Archaeological and Chrono-stratigraphic Data from the Pal-Hérault project / Mathias et al.

12:10-12:30 - What is the Quina lithic industry in south-eastern France? Rethinking its technical and cultural statuses:The case of Brugas site (Gard, France) / Brochard et al.

12:30-12:50 - From the Riverbed to knapped Tool-kit: Petro-techno-functional insights from the Quina Mousterian pebble-tools of Champ-Grand (Loire, France) / Burcet

12:50-13:10 - Integrating Subsistence Behaviour and Raw Material Procurement in a Short-Term Middle Palaeolithic Occupation at Abric Romaní Level N / Gómez de Soler et al.

13:10-13:30 - A Neanderthal camp at high resolution. The SU 14 from Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Southern Italy) / Spagnolo et al.

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Old Collections, New Perspectives: A Re-evaluation of the Middle Paleolithic Lithic Assemblages at Nahr Ibrahim Cave, Lebanon / Prevost

14:50-15:10 - The Emergence of Waste Management in Middle Pleistocene Camps: Evidence from Tabun Cave / Shimelmitz et al.

15:10-15:30 - Energy Use and Firewood-Related Practices among Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers from Western Europe to Central Asia (PALFUEL) /  Allué et al.

15:30-15:50 - Middle Palaeolithic Technology, Spatial Organisation, and Hominin Behaviour at Open-Air Sites in South Bihar, India / Pandey

15:50-16:10 - The transition to a fully-fledged home base model at the dawn of the Middle Paleolithic? / Clark

16:10-16:30 - POSTER 1 (Rajak et al. – Early Middle Paleolithic Retouched And Unretouched Lithic Tools From Coupe-Gorge (Montmaurin, France): First Approach Combining Techno-Functional And Use-Wear Analysis) & POSTER 2 (Berjón et al. –  Esnate. An open-air Mousterian campsite in the Sakana Corridor (northern Iberia))

16:30-17:00 - Coffee break

17:00-17:20 - POSTER 3 (Fernández et al. – Neanderthal subsistence and landscape exploitation during MIS4 in Iberia: new methodological approaches) & POSTER 4 (Arjun & Elanthendral – Middle Paleolithic in the High-Level Gravels of River Krishna, South Asia: Lithic Assemblages, Semi-aridity and Subsistence Pattern)

17:20-17:40 - POSTER 5 (Arrizabalaga et al. – Solving the Lezetxiki puzzle (Basque Country, northern Iberia). The secondary locus of Lezetxiki II)

17:40-18:00 - Discussion of the 1st day session