Monthly Archives: March 2011

Bone Implements from Roc de Sers

The site of Roc de Sers is a collapsed rock shelter located about 20 km south-east of Angouleme. Research was conducted by L. Henri-Martin from 1909 to 1929 and completed in 1951 by G. Henri-Martin and R. Lantier. The site … Continue reading

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Ahrensburgian

Ahrensburgian points are rare in Denmark. Most of them were found in South Jutland. This item comes from “Christiansfeld”, 10 km from Haderslev. The Ahrensburg culture is a technocomplex, contemporaneous with other tanged point cultures (http://www.aggsbach.de/2011/01/swiderian-arrowhead-made-of-chocolate-flint/ http://www.aggsbach.de/2010/11/bromme-point/), dated to the younger … Continue reading

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Mesolithic Pics from Portugal

Pics, made from medium sized beach pebbles from the Douro River, near Vila Nova de Gaia / Portugal. Picks can be can be found at sites of virtually any pre- and protohistoric sites in Galicia and the Northern Atlantic Fassade … Continue reading

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Large Geometric Sickle Segment from Israel

This is a large geometric sickle segments with gloss and heavy serration from the early Middle Bronze Age of Israel, dated to the beginning of the 2th Millennium BC. As already shown in an earlier post such sickles are characterized … Continue reading

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To Be or not to Be Aterian

Middle Paleolithic (Middle Stone Age) Ensembles of Northern Africa have been found over a vast area, reaching from the Mediterranean to the Southern Margins of the Sahara, and from the Maghreb to the Nile Valley. Nowadays there is a broad … Continue reading

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Tilemsi Points

  Neolithic Points from the Lower Tilemsi Valley The Lower Tilemsi Valley in northeastern Mali is an important region in sub-Saharan West Africa in the development of the local Neolithic. In this post I define Neolithic populations as those people … Continue reading

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Northern Hessen: The Acheulean

This is a large quartzite handaxe, found in 1949 near Seigertshausen in North Hessen. The Acheulean of this area is selectively known from surface collections and the material can only be provisionally classified according to typology and patination. Important sites … Continue reading

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Fishtail-Daggers

This is a heavily resharpened and worn flint Fishtail-dagger from the latest Neolithic (1900-1700 BC) of Southern Scandinavia. Although Fishtail-Daggers are often interpreted as prestige goods, many of them show extensive traces of resharpening, which is suggestive of a use … Continue reading

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Gudenushöhle: Rock crystal during the Magdalenian

  This is a short Rock crystal blade from Magdalenian deposits of the Gudenus cave 20 km north from Krems; Lower Austria (Legacy Dr. Bachmayer, former Director of the Vienna Natural History Museum).  Starting in 1881, Leopold Hacker, Ferdinand Brun … Continue reading

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Scandinavian Neolithic Type D-arrow point

This is a Scandinavian Neolithic Type D-arrow point , most probably related to the Pitted Ware culture. These strong arrows are usually produced from straight three-sided blades and were most probably used for the hunting of marine resources. The suggestion, … Continue reading

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