The Potential of Micromammals for the Stratigraphy and the Timing of Human Occupations at La Roche-à-Pierrot (Saint-Césaire, France)

As micromammals are highly sensitive to changes in their habitat, variations species representation often used reconstruct local environmental conditions. However, taphonomic aspects of overlooked, despite the fact that they can provide important information for our understanding archaeological sites. La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire, is a major site Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition Western Europe. Clearly documenting formation processes, post-depositional reworking deposits and sequence human occupations fundamental providing secure archaeostratigraphic context site. The exceptionally large accumulation from recently excavated stratigraphic units at makes it possible track density across sequence. analysis demonstrates these not related change main agent or phenomena. A negative correlation between small mammal remains material suggests peaks micromammal densities potentially be correlated with periods when was abandoned occupation less intense, therefore new data interpreting Saint-Césaire