Les industries lithiques aurignaciennes de l'abri Pataud, Dordogne, France

A new approach to the important site of Abri Pataud in the V z re valley, near Les Eyzies, Dordogne. This important site has a very rich Upper Palaeolithic sequence, beginning with Aurignacian deposits containing saucer-shaped living-hollows with central hearths. With particular reference to the digs of Hallam L. Movius (starting at the site in the 1950s), the author develops recent studies focussing on not just the tools found but also the totality of material discovered around the dig sites. His approach, already employed for two of the P rigordian levels, gives insights for the first time to technological issues raised by the assemblages from Abri Pataud.