The Middle Paleolithic Occupations of Mutzig-Rain (Alsace, France)

The Paleolithic site of Mutzig, discovered by chance in 1992 (Sainty 1992), has been the focus of several excavations since 2009. Located in Alsace (Bas-Rhin, France), it is presently one of only a handful of sites reliably attributed to the Middle Paleolithic in this area, thus providing rare evidence for a zone still relatively unknown for Early Prehistoric remains.

Héloïse Koehler¹, Fabio Wegmüller², Benjamin Audiard³, Patrick Auguste⁴, Jean-Jacques Bahain⁵, Hervé Bocherens^6,7, Simon Diemer⁸, Frank Preusser⁹, Christine Pümpin², Noémie Sévêque¹⁰, Emmanuelle Stoetzel⁵, Olivier Tombret¹¹, Patrice Wuscher¹²

¹ Archéologie Alsace and UMR 7044, “Préhistoire de l‘Europe moyenne,” France

² Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science (IPAS), University of Basel, Switzerland

³ CNRS, CEPAM, UMR 7264, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France

⁴ CNRS, UMR 8198, “Evo-Eco-Paléo,” Université de Lille, France

⁵ Muséum National d‘Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7194, “Histoire naturelle de l’Homme préhistorique,” MNHN-CNRS-UPVD, France

⁶ Department of Geosciences, Biogeology, University of Tübingen, Germany

⁷ Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Tübingen, Germany

⁸ UMR 7044, Archimède, Université de Strasbourg, France

⁹ Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Freiburg, Germany

¹⁰ GéoArchPal – GéoArchÉon SARL, UMR 7044, Archimède, Équipe Préhistoire de l’Europe moyenne, MISHA, Université de Strasbourg, France

¹¹ Musée de l‘Homme, UMR 7194, “Histoire naturelle de l‘Homme préhistorique,” UMR 7209, “Archéozoologie, archéobotanique: sociétés, pratiques et environnements,” France

¹² Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, UMR 7362, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, France

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