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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Chopping tool from the Pointe-aux-Oies site
Typical chopping tool from the Pointe-aux-Oies site near Boulogne. Bifacial retouches create a wide working edge with an ergonomic grip for the hand on the opposite side, which is covered by the original pebble-cortex with a orange-creamy-grey-white patination. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Chopper, Chopping tool, Early Paleolithic, Geofact
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Colméry(Nievre): Middle Paleolithic flat Handaxe (Faustkeilblatt)
Fine small flat Handaxe from local flint. This finding fits well in to the Middle Paleolithic record of the Nievre area ( see also: Handaxe from Cosne-sur-Loire)
Aurignacian from Abri Cellier/Dordogne
Aurignacian tools from a fine greenish flint, which is in the Vézère region selectively known from Abri Cellier in the commune of Tursac (Dordogne, France). This site is a rock shelter at the top of the slope of the … Continue reading
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Daggertime
Late Neolithic Type I-IV Daggers from Danmark. Explanatory remarks in this blog: Late Neolithic Flint Dagger
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Quina-Scrapers
Various tranversal scrapers with Quina retouche 1. Dordogne (Site unknown) 2 and 3: Bergerac 4 and 5: Dordogne (Site unknown) Such scrapers are not inevitably part of a “Quina-Mousterien”- they are a component of a broader Middle Paleolithic concept repertoire.
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La Madeleine
The site of La Madeleine is a rock shelter located in the Vézère valley, commune of Tursac, in the Dordogne Department of France. When Lartet and Christy visited the Vézère valley, La Madeleine was among their first discoveries during the … Continue reading
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Tagged Burin, Endscraper, Magdalenian, Magdalenien, Upper Paleolithoic
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Bifacial Tools from the Bois Du Rocher Site
Some small artifacts from the Bois-du-Rocher site(Armorican Massif, Saint-Hélen, Côtes d’Armor). The very large (5 hectars) open air site at the Rance valley was allready known during the 19th century. Mortillet wrote: « C’est ainsi que, dans l’atelier éminemment chelléen du … Continue reading
The Initial Upper Paleolithic of the Negev
Y-shaped “Levallois blade” with facetted platform from the Negev (Boker-Tachtit, Level unknown, Avdat/Aquev Area). At Boker-Tachtit (47-42 k.a. BP) a special form of the Levallois technique that shifts over time (Level 1-4) to an upper Paleolithic blade technology is present. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmarian, Bohunician, Boker, Boker-Tachtit, Early Upper Paleolithic, Emirian
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Hummalien at El-Kowm
These retouched blades, some of them 15-17 cm long, are from the Hummalien at El-Kowm and can be seen in an rather improvized exhibition at the National Museum in Damascus, which I visited last week. In 1980, a first study … Continue reading
Handaxe from Cosne-sur-Loire
7300 archeological sites are known from the Nièvre area. About 15% of these sites are prehistoric, ranging from isolated artifacts or small surface scatters to larger artifact concentrations. Stone Age artifacts were collected beginning with the 19th century (J. de … Continue reading
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Tagged Biface, Handaxe, Loire, Lower Paleolithic
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