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'-'40,000	40,000 years ago	(Non-member)
anastylose	anastylosis	(Non-member)
applique/appliqué	ornaments or decorations or appliqué	Yolanda Broad
éclairage rasant	raking (sun)light	(Non-member)
éperon barré	promontory fort	(Non-member)
bois des caissons	timbers used for shuttering	(Non-member)
chasse	portable shrine	Francis Marche
comblement de pierrailles et de cailloutis	an infilling of chippings/loose stones and gravel	transland
constructions sur poteaux ou sur sablières	buildings on stilts or ground beams	transland
contestation des hiérarchies	internal power struggles	Yolanda Broad
crosse	"Crook" or "Scimitar" (in the specific context of a common motif in prehistoric "art")	(Non-member)
Dans la guerre comme aux dés, l'individu ne fait jamais que l'épreuve du pouvoir-vivre que lui concède la puissance des arrière-	In war as in dice, one is only ever subject to unseen forces	(Non-member)
demeurer dans l’ombre	remain unexplained/obscure	suezen
deux foyers à 1.250° C	two furnaces able to reach 1,250 ºC	(Non-member)
développement	size, scale, span	(Non-member)
éléments minéraux silcatés	silicate minerals	(Non-member)
empreinte en creux	(hollow) imprint / indentation	(Non-member)
en forme de bottier	last-shaped	Yolanda Broad
en position contractée	in a flexed position	(Non-member)
épingle à béquille	hammer head pin / hammer-shaped pin	Yolanda Broad

fouilles de sauvetage	rescue digs [here preferred], rescue archaeology [the general term]	(Non-member)
fusaïoles	spindle whorls	Yolanda Broad
grattoirs carénés et à museau	carinated and nosed scrapers	Gayle Wallimann
hache a leger bord	flanged axe	(Non-member)
hache-boucharde	bush hammer axe	Victoria Barkoff
hache-marteau	hammer axe	Victoria Barkoff
implantation de sociétés de chasseurs-pêcheurs-cueilleurs déjà bien informées de leur présence, loin vers l'orient	colonies of hunters-gatherers-fishermen who were already well aware that neolithic communities existed far to the East	Yolanda Broad
industries à lamelles	industries including microlithic backed bladelets	Neil Rear
javelot, muni de deux barbelures	double-barbed spear	Yolanda Broad
l'extrémité distale / l'extrémité proximale	distal extremity, proximal extremity	anne estrada
La guerre primitive fait signe, par son universalité, non pas vers la nature, mais vers la culture	Primative warfare is, due to its universality, indicative not of nature, but of culture.	(Non-member)
mis en facteur commun	combined with, followed by	suezen
moulière	gutter	(Non-member)
occupations	occupations	(Non-member)
On recrée l'antagonisme entre le Paradis originel et le Temps de la faute à compter duquel l'humanité,ayant déplu au divin, se v	This is a reenactment of the antagonism between the original paradise and the time of the Fall when man fell in God's disfavour,	(Non-member)
outils de fonds communs ... parfois singuliers	common tool types ... sometimes individual (types)	Rachel Fell
pains d'adobe	adobe bricks	(Non-member)
pour l'heure	at that time, then	Philippe Boucry
prothèses discrètes	unobtrusive newly fabricated elements	(Non-member)
rétiaire	retiarus	François Rossi

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