The lithic assemblage of La Celle-Saint-Cyr (Yonne, France) was discovered in a surface site and included unifacial points, which are poorly known in this area where Solutrean industries are not common. The typo-technological study presented here reveals an original chaîne opératoire partly devoted to the production of unifacial point blanks. In the regional context, the Proto-Solutrean assemblage of Trilobite Cave at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne) offers the best comparisons. It is however especially with the Lower Solutrean of Laugerie-Haute (Dordogne) that the most evident similarities can be perceived. In spite of the absence of any stratigraphie context, this assemblage provides new evidence for Lower Solutrean occupation in the south the Paris basin.
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Caroline Renard (2002) studied this question.