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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Bromme Point
Bromme Point from the Type Site. Analysis of these projectile points indicates that they comprised an excellent and efficient hunting weapon when used as spear heads. They were too heavy weighted for being arrow points. We have evidence of four … Continue reading
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Tagged Azilian, Brommian, Federmesser, Hambougien, Late Pleistocene
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The late Gravettian of Western Slovakia
Several shouldered points from the late Gravettian in the Vah-valley. Together with Willendorf I/II in Lower Austria, sites in the adjacent area of Western Slovakia form a dense cluster of the late Gravettian in Middle Europe. The Moravany and the … Continue reading
Posted in Plaeolithics and Neolithics
Tagged Kostenki, Moravany, Shouldered Points, Willenorf
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A large handaxe from Le Moustier
Denis Peyrony was the first, who recognized the interassemblage variablity of the Mousterian technocomplex during his excavations at Le Moustier. He described two classes of Mousterian assembages: the Typical Mousterian and the Mousterian of Acheulean Tradition(MTA). The former was characterized … Continue reading
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Tagged D. Peyrony, F. Bordes, Le Moustier, Middle Paleolithic, Mousterian
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Shamans in the Paleolithic?
The ethnological museum of the University of Göttingen, where I work as a physician, owns a collection dating back to Georg Thomas Asch (1729-1807), a Russian physician, collector and patron with German roots. One highlight of his collection is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Fumane, Lascaux, Löwenmensch, Paleolithic art, Shaman, Trois Freres
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Yarmukian Sickles from Megiddo
Flint sickles from Megiddo (Early pottery Neolithic resp. Yarmukian) The Yarmukian, known from some 20 sites in the southern Levant is famous for its “Coffeee beans eyes” clay figurines. The Yarmukians were the first in this part of the world … Continue reading
A laurel leave point from the Dordogne
A large laurel leaves point from the Dordogne. Such artifacts are especially known from Laugerie haute, Pech-de-la-Boissiere, Fourneau-du-Diable and Jean Blancs. In his seminal thesis about the Solutrean Philip Smith’s defined the typology of Solutrean laurel leaves points a ‘type … Continue reading
Cordiform Biface from Goderville
From the collections, made before 1950 at the Brickyard of Goderville, F. Bordes described two series of middle Paleolithic artifacts on the basis of their patination. In both series some small cordiform handaxes, similar to those that are displayed here, … Continue reading
Handaxe from St-Pierre-les-Elbeuf
Paleolithic tools from St-Pierre-les-Elbeuf have been collected since the 1880ies. This large bifaces is said to come from the “basis” of the Elbeuf sequence, but such a declaration has to be handled with care. Older Loess deposits (older than … Continue reading
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Tagged Handaxe, Lower Paleolithic, Seine Valley
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Bifacial Quina Scraper
Bifacial Quina scraper from the Les Eyzies vicinity. These artifacts are very similar to MTA-bifaces, however their oval shape and the absence of two converging edges are very different from cordiform handaxes. Similar scrapers, although rare have been already published … Continue reading
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Tagged Bifacial Scraper, Henri Martin, La Quina, Mousterian
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