Northern France and the Near East play and have played a central role in the debate around the Lower Paleolithic (LP) to Middle Paleolithic (MP) boundary. In the early 1990s, the renewed Saalian record for Northern France began to outline a mosaic model of the LP-to-MP transition-mainly based on Tuffreau's works. It implied the coexistence of Upper Acheulean assemblages (numerous bifaces with few standardized retouched flakes), 'Epi-Acheulean' assemblages (rare bifaces and diversified retouched flakes), and Mousterian assemblages (Levalloisian industries) during the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 8-6 period. Since the 2000s, the discovery of new key sites and enhanced field and laboratory methods are challenging this model. We present first a brief historical summary of previous approaches to the LP to MP boundary in Northern France. A large data set of Saalian archaeological units available from previous works has been updated and expanded to include additional sites. This allows us to demonstrate that the current Saalian record from Northern France is both rich and sparse as it is heterogeneously biased through time and space and that these biases limit the accuracy of any attempt to model the LP-to-MP transition. Nevertheless, we describe the differences between pre-MIS 9 and MIS 9 and MIS 8-6 records for lithic industries and discuss whether the current periodization is still relevant considering new data on technological, behavioral, and cultural changes. The comparison between Northern France and Near Eastern records allows regional cultural patterns to be distinguished from global trends in lithic trajectories of change and determination of how they slotted together. Our review of the available data from these two distant regions confirms that the LP-to-MP transition is probably one of the major cultural shifts in human evolution.

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从法国北部到远东的旧石器时代的中下边界的景色？

法国北部和近东在下旧石器时代（LP）到中旧石器时代（MP）边界的辩论中发挥了中心作用。在1990年代初期，新的法国北部萨利人唱片开始概述了LP到MP过渡的马赛克模型，主要是基于Tuffreau的作品。它暗示了在海洋同位素阶段（MIS）中，上阿奇勒山脉组合（大量的双面，很少有标准化修饰的薄片），“上阿奇勒兰”组合（稀有的双面和多样化的修饰薄片）和穆特斯组合（勒瓦卢瓦工业）并存。 6期。自2000年代以来，新的关键地点的发现以及增强的现场和实验室方法一直对该模型构成挑战。我们首先介绍法国北部从LP到MP边界的先前方法的简要历史总结。以前工作中可得的萨利族考古单位的大数据集已经更新并扩展为包括其他地点。这使我们能够证明，来自法国北部的当前萨利人记录既丰富又稀疏，因为它在时间和空间上存在异质性偏差，并且这些偏差限制了对LP到MP过渡建模的任何尝试的准确性。但是，我们描述了石器行业的MIS 9之前版本和MIS 9之前以及MIS 8-6记录之间的差异，并考虑到有关技术，行为和文化变化的新数据，讨论了当前的分期是否仍然有意义。法国北部和近东记录之间的比较使区域文化模式可以与石器时代变化的全球趋势以及确定它们如何排列在一起的全球趋势区分开。