Contribution à l’étude du peuplement préhistorique de la vallée de la Petite Creuse : bilan de dix ans de prospection sur la commune de Clugnat et ses marges (Creuse)

Abstract

This work presents the results of more than ten years of prospection on the commune of Clugnat and its margins. About fifteen sites more or less rich in artefacts was thus listed on both sides of La Petite-Creuse. Lithic remains testify to an almost continuous occupation of the sector prospected since the Middle Paleolithic until the final Neolithic era. Raw materials exclusively came from the siliceous formations located at the north and the North-West of the sector of study. Closest are the tertiary flints of the area of Vicq-Exemplet and the hettangian flints of the sector of Saint-Jeanvrain. Most distant are turonian flints of the Cher valley and those of the surroundings of the Grand-Pressigny. The Middle Paleolithic is represented only by some artefacts, just like Aurignacian, Badegoulian or Azilian ones. A Gravettian industry is more important on the site of Les Tailles, just like the final Neolithic era. Final Neolithic is indeed omnipresent on the whole of the sites and is in particular marked by the importation of tools made from Berry and of Touraine flints.

Keywords

• Creuse
• Clugnat
• Palaeolithic
• Neolithic
• lithic