Monthly Archives: February 2011

Salzgitter-Lebenstedt: an important Paleolithic site in N-Germany

This is the first page from a publication about the Salzgitter-Lebenstedt Middle Paleolithic site, published by A. Tode in 1983  produced  by H. Neanderthaliensis. Salzgitter-Lebenstedt is an open air site of the North European Plain, situated 50 km southeast of … Continue reading

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Neolithic Sickle

  This is a superb crescent-shaped finely serrated and thin bladed bifacial Danish Neolithic flint sickle dating to the later 3rd. millennium B.C. The final Debitage of such tools is virtually indistinguishable from the late-stage reduction of contemporary daggers. Unfortunately … Continue reading

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Obsidian during the Stone Age of East Africa and the Levant

This is a pyramidal Obsidian core from a late neolithic site in Turkey. Obsidian, a volcanic glass, is formed when volcanic lava is coming in contact with water. Iron and magnesium usually give the obsidian a dark green to black … Continue reading

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Leaf Points Revisited

The Paleolithic sites at Kleinheppach are known from their “Micoquian” material. I have already presented a Micoquian scraper(http://www.aggsbach.de/2010/08/the-middle-european-micoquien/) and a typical Aurignacian complex from this site http://www.aggsbach.de/2010/08/aurignacian-from-sw-germany/). All artifacts, displayed in the previous posts, were collected during the 1960ies by … Continue reading

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Geometric Engravings on the cortex of flint (Willendorf Kostenki)

This is an enigmantic Criss cross Pattern on a burinated blade, engraved on the cortex of flint, found at Moravany Banka and belonging to the Willendorf-Kostenki technocomplex (Displayed with different tresholds; Please click to enlarge!). During the evolution of symbolic … Continue reading

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Symbolic meaning and Aesthetics of Artifacts during the Neolithic

This is an axe from the late Neolithic of Jutland that represent a piece of excellent craft expertise. Although we have no insight into the aesthetic and symbolic aspects of this his artifact within the late Neolithic society, its fine … Continue reading

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The Reutersruh Paleolithic

A Scraper, Levallois Point and a Tayac-Point from the Reutersruh site near Kassel (250-40 k.a BP) In 1948, Hallam L. Movius Jr. proposed a theoretical line, which separated regions of Lower Paleolithic Technocomplexes with Handaxes, from regions without such tools. … Continue reading

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The Prehistory of the Bergerac region in the Dordogne.

Two bifaces from Corbiac (Commune de Lembras) The Bergerac flint outcrops represent one of the finest sources of high quality flint in France. Consequently there is an immense number of Paleolithic and Neolithic Workshops near Bergerac, exposed by plow or … Continue reading

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The Tenerian and the vanshing of a “green Sahara”

  Several Tenerian implements from Mali, found during the early 1960ies at the Margins of the  Ténéré desert. Palaeoecological studies of Late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in the Central Sahara allowed the reconstruction of the palaeoenvironmental development of the Ténéré desert … Continue reading

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Acheulean Biface from from the collection of Raoul Daniel

Acheulean Biface from the Dreux vicinity from the collection of Raoul Daniel (1891-1978). Raoul Daniel was born in March 13, 1891, at Sorges in the Dordogne. Since his childhood Daniel aspired to a musical career. After first steps in playing … Continue reading

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