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Volgu revisité : de nouveaux indices sur les déplacements solutréens dans le bassin ligérien / Volgu Revisited : New Clues about Solutrean Displacements in the Ligerian Basin
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Supplément à la Revue archéologique du centre de la France 47(1):225-231
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French
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A Volgu, petit hameau situé sur la rive gauche de l'Arroux, à 6 km de la confluence de cette rivière avec la Loire, furent fortuitement découvertes deux séries de pièces solutréennes : au moins quinze grandes feuilles de laurier en 1874, puis les fragments de trois petites feuilles de laurier et d’une pointe à cran à la fin des années soixante. L’étude litho-techno-typologique de ces objets permet de les relier à des régions très éloignées de la basse vallée de l’Arroux. Ces relations sont établies grâce à l’identification de l’origine de leurs matières premières : le silex employé pour la confection des grandes feuilles serait issu de gîtes de la région de Gien, tandis que celui des fragments provient du sud de la Touraine. Le rapprochement avec d’autres régions encore plus lointaines est aussi possible, plus indirectement, par l’analyse de leur typologie : la pointe à cran se révèle d’un type particulier, qui n’était jusqu’alors connu que sur des occupations solutréennes de Charente et du nord de l’Aquitaine. Ces trouvailles, malgré l’imprécision de leur contexte stratigraphique, nous montrent combien notre connaissance des occupations de plein air est lacunaire, et combien les cartes de répartitions des catégories typologiques ne sont que des états provisoires, qui peuvent être radicalement modifiés par de nouvelles découvertes. Finalement, loin d’être un site atypique et isolé, Volgu offre, à la lumière d’autres découvertes de ces dernières décennies, de nouveaux éléments pour reconstituer des axes de déplacements solutréens qui pourraient se placer le long du réseau fluvial de la Loire, mais aussi des cuestas qui le coupent transversalement.
In Volgu, a hamlet located on the left bank of the Arroux, at 6 km from the junction of this small river with the Loire, were fortuitously discovered two series of solutrean tools : at least 15 large laurel leaves points in 1874, later the fragments of three small laurel leaves points and a shouldered point at the end of the 1960s. The lithography-techno-typological study of these artefacts permits to connect them to areas very far away from the low valley of the Arroux. These connections can be asserted through the identification of the origin of their raw materials : the flint used for the shopping of the large laurel leaves points comes from sources based in the area of Gien ; the fragments ’flint comes from the south of Touraine. Links with other areas even more distant are also possible, more indirectly, through the analysis of their typology : the shouldered point prove to be of a particular type, which was hitherto known only on the Solutrean settlements of Charente and north of Aquitaine. These discoveries, in spite of the inaccuracy of their context and their stratigraphic relation, show us how our knowledge about open air settlements is incomplete, and how the typological categories distribution s maps are only temporary facts, which can be radically enlarged by new discoveries. Actually, Volgu isn’t an atypical and isolated site. It offers, in the light of other discoveries of these last decades, new elements to restore some Solutrean movements along the river system of the Loire and the liasic cuestas.
In Volgu, a hamlet located on the left bank of the Arroux, at 6 km from the junction of this small river with the Loire, were fortuitously discovered two series of solutrean tools : at least 15 large laurel leaves points in 1874, later the fragments of three small laurel leaves points and a shouldered point at the end of the 1960s. The lithography-techno-typological study of these artefacts permits to connect them to areas very far away from the low valley of the Arroux. These connections can be asserted through the identification of the origin of their raw materials : the flint used for the shopping of the large laurel leaves points comes from sources based in the area of Gien ; the fragments ’flint comes from the south of Touraine. Links with other areas even more distant are also possible, more indirectly, through the analysis of their typology : the shouldered point prove to be of a particular type, which was hitherto known only on the Solutrean settlements of Charente and north of Aquitaine. These discoveries, in spite of the inaccuracy of their context and their stratigraphic relation, show us how our knowledge about open air settlements is incomplete, and how the typological categories distribution s maps are only temporary facts, which can be radically enlarged by new discoveries. Actually, Volgu isn’t an atypical and isolated site. It offers, in the light of other discoveries of these last decades, new elements to restore some Solutrean movements along the river system of the Loire and the liasic cuestas.