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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Burination continued
A dihedral burin and a scraper (9 and 10 cm) from the Moravany region (“Willendorf-Kostenki culture”), The elegant dihedral burin shows marginal retouching on the proximal end, very probably for faciliating hafting of the artifact. The burin resembles similar artifacts … Continue reading
Aurignacian from SW-Germany
Typical Aurignacian artifacts, made of thick blades, from Kleinheppach in Swabia . Among these artefacts, there is a Jerzmanovice blade- point with a broken tip (No4) similar to the findings in Beedings (UK), Ranis (Germany) and from the Nietoperzowa Cave in Poland. … Continue reading
Posted in Plaeolithics and Neolithics
Tagged Ach valley, art, Aurignacian, Aurignacien, Lone valley, music, upper paleolithic
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MSA from Shambyu / Rundu
As early as 1980 Clark suggested that MSA-points are related with the beginning of regional African identity. In the Kavango Region paleolithic findings are present from ‘Developed Oldowan’ Industry until the Messum-Menongue LSA complex. The MSA complex from Shambyu / … Continue reading
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Tagged Middle Stone Age, MSA, Projectile Point
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Burination
Burination and shouldering are hallmarks of the Willendorf-Kostenki technocomplex in Middle Europe. This is a shouldered burinated artifact made of local radiolarite from Moravany-Modrovka. We do not know, if this stone tool was originally intended to serve as a burin … Continue reading
LBK Quartzite Blades during the Linear Pottery culture in Northern Hesse
Some quartzite Artifacts from Lenderscheid in Northern Hesse, produced during the early and middle Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik; LBK). Although Northern Hesse was only marginally involved into the formation of the LBK, a dense settlement pattern is present from the older phases of … Continue reading
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Tagged LBK, Lenderscheid, Linear pottery culture, neolithic
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The “Moustérien à pièces bifaciales dominantes”
This Mousterian facies is defined by numerous small bifaces (average size:~ 6-8cm) and bifacial scrapers, and is constitutive for the Middle Palaeolithic of the Bretagne and the Basse Normandie. Originally dated to the beginning of the last glacial (OIS5), … Continue reading
Abri Lartet
Abri Lartet: Four artefacts from the early Aurignacian in the Vezere Valley: Burin, large burin, carinated scraper combined with a burin and a double scraper. This artifacts were manufactured around 35-32k.a BP. Abri Lartet (Abri Lartet, also called the “petite grotte de … Continue reading
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Tagged Aurignacian, Aurignacien ancien, Dordogne, Vezere
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The invention of Hafting and Backing
Backed lamelles from the Tunesian Epipaleolithic In Africa composite-tools that involve the hafting of stone artifacts in handles with gums, cords, sinews, and/or other binding materials in first appeared at the transition from the Acheulean to the MSA. In … Continue reading
Fluted Clovis point from Westernville, Ohio,USA
During the late pleistocene, the Great Plains of North America were populated by small, highly mobile Clovis groups with well developed weaponry, hunting large mammals, especially mammoths. Clovis-people may have not been the first Eurasians who arrived in America, but … Continue reading
Stone Tools after the Stone Age: The Levant
It has early been recognized that chipped stone tools continue to be used after the end of the Neolithic in spite of the introduction of metallurgy. In Northern Europe the production of delicate sickles and a variety of highly sophisticated … Continue reading