On the Earliest Occupation of Europe.

The article comments on the study of Wil Roebroeks on the earliest occupation of Europe published in volume 35 of the "Current Anthropology" journal. Roebroeks indicates that a number of early European sites lack artefactual material and all assemblages dating to more than 500,000 year ago are all geofacts, justifying that these artifacts have been collected by archeologists from gravels and considers it impossible to distinguish an artifact from masses of pebbles and cobbles. To this reference, the author illustrated how he had collected artifacts from the pebbles and argued that research on large amounts of gravels and pebbles on the surfaces of terraces or in gravel pits have been one of the sources of artifacts in England and other part of Europe.