THE AURIGNACIAN OPEN-AIR SITE OF HERBEVIL LE-LE-MURGER (YVELINES) - EXCAVATIONS 1991-1992

The site was partially known after the field research in the 1970. The excavations during 1991 and 1992 showed that the flint artefacts were not in situ and that they could originally have come from the little headland a few meters behind the excavation area. It is impossible act ually to place the Aurignacian occupation in the chronostratigraphy. T he main interest of the site is the large flint collection on which we made in-depth the typological and technological analysis. The laminar debitage methods present similarities with the industries coming from the North-West of Europe and not with those from the South-West of Fr ance. Herbeville is quite the only confirmed Aurignacian open-air site known in the geological area of the Paris Basin.