The Mesolithic technology in Western Europe depicts the last cultural expressions and adaptations of hunter-gatherers before the adoption of Neolithic agro-pastoral practices. Many questions arise when investigating the timing, nature, and historical significance of the Mesolithic. The development of the Mesolithic culture is usually associated with the onset of milder environmental conditions at the beginning of the Holocene. Hunter-gatherer societies would have adopted new subsistence and territorial strategies in response to environmental changes, which would have consecutively impacted their technological system. This assertion considers the Mesolithic in South-western Europe as one homogeneous phenomenon and eludes the putative role that early Holocene climatic fluctuations may have played in hunter-gatherer organizations. In this study, we aimed at questioning the archaeological variability of the first Mesolithic by taking benefit from new data provided by recent excavations at La Baume de Monthiver (Comps-sur-Artuby, France). La Baume de Monthiver is a small rock shelter located along the Jabron Valley in the southern French pre-Alps. The rock shelter records several Mesolithic occupations documenting Sauveterrian technological traditions. By studying the Baume de Monthiver, we take the opportunity to explore the Sauveterrian in its longue durée and address the question of its diachronic variability. In this study, we investigated the M-B′ archaeological assemblage and question its homogeneity at the transition of the 10th- and 9th-millennium cal. BP. Our results document stable technological and subsistence practices before and after the climatic fluctuations at the end of the 10th-millennium cal. BP, supporting the hypothesis of well-adapted Mesolithic societies to the climatic “instability” characterizing the early Holocene.

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La Baume de Monthiver（法国瓦尔）北方气候波动期间的中石器时代职业

西欧的中石器时代技术描绘了新石器时代农牧业实践之前狩猎采集者最后的文化表现形式和适应。在研究中石器时代的时间、性质和历史意义时，会出现许多问题。中石器时代文化的发展通常与全新世初期较温和的环境条件的开始有关。狩猎采集社会会采取新的生存和领土战略来应对环境变化，这将连续影响他们的技术体系。这一断言将西南部欧洲的中石器时代视为一种同质现象，并回避了全新世早期气候波动可能在狩猎采集组织中发挥的假定作用。在这项研究中，我们旨在利用 La Baume de Monthiver（法国阿尔图比河畔康普斯）最近发掘提供的新数据来质疑第一个中石器时代的考古变异性。La Baume de Monthiver 是一个小型岩石庇护所，位于法国阿尔卑斯山前南部 Jabron 山谷沿岸。岩石庇护所记录了一些中石器时代的职业，记录了索维特里亚的技术传统。通过研究月度波美 (Baume de Monthiver)，我们借此机会探索索维特里亚 (Sauveterrian) 的魅力长时并解决其历时变异性问题。在这项研究中，我们调查了 MB' 考古组合，并质疑其在 10 世纪和 9 世纪过渡时期的同质性。血压。我们的结果记录了第十个千年末气候波动前后稳定的技术和生存实践。英国石油公司，支持中石器时代社会很好地适应了全新世早期气候“不稳定”的假说。