Level 4.1 from the Abri du Maras (Ardèche, France) is chronologically attributed to the beginning of MIS 3 and is one example of late Neanderthal occupations in the southeast of France. Previous work on the faunal and lithic remains suggests that this level records short-term hunting episodes of reindeer associated with fragmented lithic reduction sequences. During fieldwork, the high density of the material did not allow identification of clear spatial patterning of these activities. In order to try to decipher the palimpsest of these short-term occupations, we combined contextual micro-stratigraphic analysis with interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to obtain high-resolution intra-site spatial data. The former was performed by studying microfacies variability of occupation layers at meso to microscales. A combination of spatial techniques based on GIS and kernel density analysis along with faunal and lithic refitting was used and focused on the horizontal distribution of the whole archaeological assemblage. The results demonstrate that quantitative approaches, associated with the interdisciplinary empirical processing of data, are suitable and adequate methods for describing the spatio-temporal formation of the archaeological assemblage. This integrated approach allowed us to identify a temporal succession of occupational events marked by distinctive anthropic imprints in the host matrix in well-preserved activity areas. The analysis of their spatial patterns reveals differential treatment of lithic and faunal remains. We describe the possible organization of the settlement patterns dynamics of these specialized short-term occupations.

按时间顺序，来自Abri du Maras（法国阿德什）的4.1级按时间顺序归因于MIS 3的开始，并且是法国东南部尼安德特人后期占领的一个例子。先前有关动物和石器遗迹的工作表明，该水平记录了与破碎的石器还原序列相关的驯鹿的短期狩猎事件。在野外作业期间，材料的高密度无法识别这些活动的清晰空间格局。为了尝试破译这些短期职业中的最弱者，我们将上下文微观地层分析与跨学科和方法论方法相结合，以获得高分辨率的站点内空间数据。前者是通过研究中尺度到微尺度的占领层的微相变化来进行的。结合了基于GIS和核密度分析的空间技术以及动植物和石质的改造，并着眼于整个考古组合的水平分布。结果表明，与跨学科的数据经验处理相关的定量方法是描述考古组合时空形成的合适方法。这种综合的方法使我们能够确定在保存完好的活动区域中宿主矩阵中以明显的人类烙印为特征的职业事件的时间序列。对它们的空间格局的分析揭示了对石器和动物遗体的区别对待。我们描述了这些专业短期职业的定居模式动态的可能组织。