The use of thrusting percussion tools is well documented in the non-human primates. Many researches and publications focus on the study of this type of behavior due to its cognitive implications for the understanding of the evolution of the human and non-human primates. However, the use of thrusting percussion tools is rarely documented in the Paleolithic contexts. This type of action is often restricted to the identification of the hammerstones involved in the production of stone tools by flaking/shaping. This special issue is the result of a session of the XVIIIth international congress UISPP (Paris, 2018) and it offers a more complex picture than expected regarding the thrusting percussion during the Paleolithic. The first section of the particular publication is dedicated to the methods that allow the identification of the thrusting percussion tools (morpho-function, experimental archaeology, use-wear analysis) through: 1) their modification due to the type of raw material they are made (bone, stone) and the material they worked (stone, bone, wood, ground….); and 2) the morphology of their active edge (linear, point-like, spheroid). The second part is dedicated to the data originated by these methods of analysis that highlight the different types of thrusting percussion tools: hammerstones (hard/soft), retouchers (bone, stone), shaped pebbles, bifaces, pickaxes, cleavers, active edges (unshaped or shaped) of blades or flakes, and reused tools (cores, flake or biface surface….). The studies presented in this issue allow us to create a dedicated terminology for the thrusting percussion tools. These researches demonstrate that the thrusting percussion tradition has deep roots in the human past, and is linked to many different tools. In the end, it is important to mention that this publication underlines the great amount of the information that these types of tools may provide. Additionally, it attests the need to integrate their study with all the other approaches scholars apply for interpreting the technological and subsistence behavior of the Paleolithic human communities.
L’outillage façonné utilisé en percussion lancée du site paléolithique moyen du Bois de l’Hôpital (Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe, Tarn)
Cyril VIALLET et al.
123-143, Published on 07 February 2022, art. 21 (5)
Du macro-outillage tranchant utilisé en percussion lancée dans les premières phases de l’Acheuléen européen ? Le cas de l’US4 de Bois-de-Riquet (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault, France)
Cyril VIALLET et al.
175-189, Published on 28 February 2022, art. 21 (8) 
Introduction du volume : « La percussion lancée au Paléolithique : identification de son usage, types d’outils associés et étendue chronologique »
Cyril VIALLET et al.
165-173, Published on 15 March 2021, art. 20 (10) 
Diversité des outils et des activités de percussion à la fin du MIS 9 dans le niveau 6 d’Orgnac 3 (Ardèche, France)
Cyrielle MATHIAS et al.
175-198, Published on 17 March 2021, art. 20 (11) 
Percuteurs et retouchoirs au Paléolithique moyen en péninsule Ibérique : caractérisation et mode de fonctionnement
Felipe CUARTERO & Laurence BOURGUIGNON
273-301, Published on 12 April 2022, art. 21 (14) 
La percussion lancée dans l’Aurignacien ancien du Bergeracois : quelques exemples issus des sites de Barbas III, Vieux Coutets, Les Garris et Cantalouette II (Dordogne, France)
Iluminada ORTEGA et al.
363-389, Published on 10 May 2022, art. 21 (18) 
Outils de percussion au Paléolithique supérieur ancien : l’exemple de sites aurignaciens et gravettiens en Vallée de la Vézère (Dordogne, France)
L’outillage en quartz spécialisé utilisé en percussion lancée en contexte discoïde à Pointe pseudo-Levallois : l’exemple de Champs de Bossuet
Laurence BOURGUIGNON et al.
489-509, Published on 08 July 2022, art. 21 (24) 
De l’utilisation en percussion lancée d’éclats bruts massifs dans les activités de boucherie et travail du bois : le niveau moustérien de la Doline de Cantalouette 2 (Dordogne, France)
Laurence BOURGUIGNON et al.
779-797, Published on 16 September 2021, art. 20 (37) 
