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Although it constitutes a main tool to unravel the regional recent tectonics, the chronology of the Pleistocene river incision is still poorly constrained within the uplifted Ardennes massif (Western Europe). Here, we use in situ produced cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al concentrations from depth profiles in terrace sediments of several Ardennian rivers (Meuse, Ourthe and Amblève) in order to date the so-called Younger Main Terrace (YMT), a key-level in the drainage network evolution. We present the first absolute dating of the YMT in the lower Meuse valley, where we obtained an age of 725 ± 120 ka for a terrace deposit buried beneath 3 m of Weichselian loess at Romont. This age is consistent with some previously published estimates based on paleomagnetic data and MIS correlations. However, the ages we obtain for the same terrace level in Ardennian tributaries of the Meuse are significantly younger: 390 ± 35 ka in …