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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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