Abstract
Ménez-Drégan I (Brittany, France) fits in the « Colombanian » regional group, defined in the South-Armorican area. It is a very important site for the study of the Lower Palaeolithic of North-Western France. The prehistoric settlements were sheltered in an old marine notch, where two pebble layers have been deposited. The first palaeolithic layer is at the top of the first fossil beach. At the top and above the second beach, five other humic layers with many stone tools, are stratified. The whole is covered by a periglacial head and a pleistocene dune. Remains of fire-places have been founded. The abundant industry is characterized by heavy pebble-tools (sandstones, quartzites, microgranite...) and by lighter tools made from flint flakes. Choppers are very more numerous than chopping-tools. Other usual tools are mainly notches and denticulates. This dwelling position (in an old marine notch), on a pebble beach, is very characteristic of the Colombanian. It seems that the human settlements took place at the end of an ancient interglacial stage. No concluding evidence for more precise dating is acceptable, but the hypothesis of an occupation at the end of the isotopic stages 9 or 11 is possible and must be verified.
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