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Transport of raw materials during the Middle Paleolithic
This is a 5 cm long Handaxe from Fontmaure ( Vienne; France). The large and intensively occupied site was located directly on exposure of high quality jasper (secondary colored Upper Cretaceous flint; color oscillating from red to yellow, often multicolored). … Continue reading
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Tagged Fontmaure, Handaxe, Middle Paleolithic, Mousterian, MTA, Neanderthal
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Mousterian Scaper from Combe Capelle: For the Aura of Objects
This is a Quina scraper (7×2,5×3,5 cm) from an early 20th century collection from Combe Capelle, a Paleolithic site situated in the Couze valley in the Périgord region of Southern France (http://www.oldstoneage.com/cc/cc_intro.shtml). For me, such an artifact exhibits a certain … Continue reading
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Tagged Aura, Combe Capelle, Mousterian, Semiophores, stone age
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Handaxe from the Draa Valley (Marocco)
The Sahara is rich in Palaeolithic resources and an enormous amount of material was collected during the nineteenth-century colonial explorations by the French military. Subsequent scientific expeditions have also shown the overwhelming presence of the Acheulian in much of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Acheulian, Acheulien, Chopping tool, Handaxe
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Jericho and the changing ideology of a Neolithic Society
This is a small axe from Jericho (PPNA or PPNB; 7×1,8×1,8 cm). Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) is the name of a tell situated on an ancient lake bed plain in the Jordan valley in what is now is known as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Jericho, Natufian, neolithic, PPNA, PPNB
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The Aterian: Do not forget the tangs!
These are Aterian artifacts from a surface scatter at Jbeïlat mountain in Mauritania (a tanged point, a thick non-Levallois blade and a foliated artifact). Historically, the “Mousterian” of North Africa was classified as a Middle Paleolithic including side scrapers, notches … Continue reading
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Tagged Aterian, Middle Paleolithic, Middle Stone Age, Mousterian, MSA
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For a long chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic in Europe
This are typical Aurignacian tools from the Swabian Aurignacian from my collection. Once assumed to be relatively young, this Aurignacian is now dated among the earliest Upper Paleolithic in Europe. C-14 Measurements are traditionally made by counting the radioactive decay … Continue reading
A thick retouched Aurignacian blade from Meyrals / Périgord Noir
This is a thick (12×4,5×2,5 cm) bilaterally retouched Aurignacian blade with “endscraper” characteristics on the distal end. It is made from typical Dordogne chert and was found near Meyrals in the Périgord Noir, just a few kilometers away from Eyzies, the Vézère … Continue reading
Fayum- No need for crops?
A bifacial spear point or a stemmed dagger (9x3xo,4 cm) from the Fayum (Faiyum) Neolithic A, found during the Excavations of 1925/26. Along the shorelines of the Fayum Lake the remains of settlements of people who lived partly by farming are still preserved. … Continue reading
Shaheinab Gouge
This is a typical “Shaheinab Gouge” (7 cm long), found somewhere the Sahara during the 1980ies. The site of Shaheinab was excavated 1949-1950 by A.J. Arkell for the Sudan Antiquities Service. Shaheinab is located between Jebel Aulia and the Sixth Cataract. … Continue reading
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Tagged Khartoum Neolithic, Mesolithic, neolithic, Nubia, Sudan
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Middle Paleolithic from Scheden; Lower Saxony
This is a small (6 cm long) Handaxe from a field at Scheden (Southern Lower Saxony, near Dransfeld). In southern lower Saxony, between Kassel and Göttingen, there are numerous outcrops of middle and fine-grained Oligocene / Miocene quartzites on the Dransfeld … Continue reading
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Tagged Acheulian, Lower Saxony, Mousterian, MTA, Quartzite, Steinzeit
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