%0 Conference Paper %F Oral %T Challenging the reality of the Sauveterrian cultural facies in Southern France and Northern Italy %+ Università degli Studi di Ferrara = University of Ferrara (UniFE) %+ Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) %A Visentin, Davide %A Fontana, Federica %A Philibert, Sylvie %A Valdeyron, Nicolas %< avec comité de lecture %B 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists “Beyond paradigms” %C Bern, Switzerland %8 2019-09-04 %D 2019 %K Early Holocene %K Early Mesolithic %K Sauveterrian %K Southern France %K Northern Italy %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnologyConference papers %X The Early Mesolithic is one of the best known periods in European prehistory because of the very rich evidence yielded by archaeological researches during the last century. Nonetheless, most works carried out in this time span were focused on a regional or even site-oriented perspective. This can be partially connected to the general reduction of provisioning territories attested since the last part of the Pleistocene and the significant differences in material culture recorded by the archaeological evidence. Most likely, there is also a research-related reason for this, stemming out of the uneven interpretation of material culture as a distinctive marker of human groups variability. Western Europe is a clear example of this: while in the northern region researchers distinguished a high number of cultural entities on the base of differences in microliths shape and size, in the southern one a highest importance was given to common features leading to the creation of a large Sauveterrian territory. A recent revision of some of the most important sites from this latter area, gave us the opportunity to interrogate our evidence in this perspective in order to assess to what extent such situation could be related to a bias driven interpretation. %G English %L hal-03059600 %U https://univ-tlse2.hal.science/hal-03059600 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-TLSE2 %~ CNRS %~ EHESS %~ AO-ETHNO %~ ETHNO %~ TRACES %~ TEST3-HALCNRS %~ TEST4-HALCNRS %~ TEST5-HALCNRS