North-West Europe yields few traces of early human occupation, in particular for the Acheulean. In this context, the Somme Valley in northern France offers a route to Britain during various Pleistocene low sea levels, and has provided numerous evidence of Lower Palaeolithic human occupation through fieldwork initiated during the 19th century. These localities are associated with the original definition in the 1930s by the French prehistorian Abbé Henri Breuil of the ‘Abbevillien’ (Abbevillian facies), based on lithic pieces including crudely made bifaces recovered in particular in some famous key localities of Abbeville, Carpentier, Léon and Moulin Quignon quarries. The history of the term and its definition subsequently gave rise to debates concerning the chronocultural framework of Palaeolithic assemblages among the scientific community of prehistorians over time, from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, Gabriel de Mortillet, Geoffroy d'Ault du Mesnil, Victor Commont, Henri Breuil and François Bordes. New investigations at these three localities, all associated with the High Terrace of the Somme system, pushed back the age of the expansion of the Acheulean both in northern France and in Western Europe to c. 670–650 000 years. They imply that early hominins were able to settle in North-West Europe during both climatic temperate and cold phases. Our work, including new excavations and associated field observations of the three Abbeville localities involved at the onset of the controversy, allows a re-examination of the Abbevillian and contributes to the discussion of the history of Prehistoric Science and the Earliest ‘Acheuleans’ in North-West Europe.

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从阿比维尔旧石器时代下和第四纪遗址（法国北部索姆）的新发现的角度重新评估“阿比维利恩”

西北欧几乎没有人类早期占领的痕迹，尤其是阿舍利人。在这种情况下，法国北部的索姆河谷在不同更新世低海平面期间提供了一条通往英国的路线，并通过 19 世纪开始的田野调查提供了大量旧石器时代下人类占领的证据。这些地点与 1930 年代法国史前学家 Abbé Henri Breuil 对“Abbevillian 相”（Abbevillian 相）的原始定义有关，该定义基于石器碎片，包括特别是在 Abbeville、Carpentier、Léon 的一些著名关键地点发现的粗制双面和 Moulin Quignon 采石场。该术语的历史及其定义随后引起了史前科学界随着时间的推移，关于旧石器时代组合的年代文化框架的辩论，来自雅克·布歇·德·佩尔特斯、加布里埃尔·德·莫蒂莱、杰弗里·德·杜梅尼、维克多·康芒特、亨利布勒伊和弗朗索瓦·博德。这三个地方的新调查都与索姆河系统的高台有关，将法国北部和西欧的阿舍利河的扩张时代推迟到丙。670-650 000 年。这意味着早期的人类能够在气候温带和寒冷阶段在西北欧定居。我们的工作，包括对争议开始时涉及的三个阿比维尔地区的新发掘和相关实地观察，允许重新检查阿比维尔人，并有助于讨论史前科学的历史和北部最早的“Acheuleans” - 西欧。