From: Antiquity | Date: December 1, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 Antiquity Publications, Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

To most observers the European Upper Palaeolithic is personified by the archaeology of the Dordogne and its magnificent painted caves, deep stratigraphies and archaeological wealth. The French Palaeolithic sequence has understandably provided the base-line for European Upper Palaeolithic, and its archaeology has been at the centre of many of the critical debates during the last 150 years. Excavation techniques pioneered and perfected within these French caves have long provided the benchmark by which field projects are measured, and the subsequent interpretation of French sites has ...

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