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This article follows two publications highlighting the role of the bone industry in the relations between the Danube cultures in the Paris Basin - the Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) and the Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (end of VIth/beginning of Vth mill. BC) - and the Mediterranean cultures - Cardial/Epicardial (VIth mill. upto the beginning of the Vth mill. BC). The novelties detected within this industry in upper Alsace and the Paris Basin as compared with the familiar LBK industry in the region between Bad-Wurtemberg and the Paris Basin had then been interpreted as resulting from a cultural syncretism with the Cardial tradition (Cardial or Epicardial) originating in the Mediterranean (Sidéra 2008, 2010). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]