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Tabular Scrapers of the Levant
Tabular scrapers are flat scrapers manufactured on larger flakes, which show intentional retention of the cortex on virtually the entire dorsal surface of the implement. They were manufactured from special large flint nodules with flat cortical surfaces and can be … Continue reading
Posted in Plaeolithics and Neolithics
Tagged Bronze Age, Chalcolithic, Levant, Microtraceology, neolithic, Scaper
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Eyed Bone Needle
An eyed bone needle from an old collection of “palafit” artifacts found at the Lake Costance (Neolithic or Bronze Age*). Genetic data suggest that body hair of hominines was lost c 1.2-3 Ma. Out of Africa, Early Homo sp. occupied parts … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronze Age, Katzman, Lake Constance, Needle, neolithic, Palafit, Steinzeit, stone age
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The Lausitz “Culture”
This is a 3000 years old ”Buckelurne” from the late Bronze age . The Lusatian (Lausitz) complex is an archaeological “culture” of the late Bronze Age [1600-1300 BC] of eastern Germany and Poland, parts of Czech Republic and Slovakia. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronze Age, Kossinna, Siedlungsarchaeologie
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The developement of social complexicity in central Europe
Flanged Axe (17 x 4x 1,5cm); Southern Germany 1600 BC. For only 2% of the human evolution, Europa could be considered as the “center of the world”(*) . During the Bronze Age, the continent was clearly at the periphery. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronze Age, Central Europe, Elites, Prestige, social complexicity
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“Almost Cut My Hair”: A Razor from the German Bronze Age
“Almost Cut My Hair” was a song by Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, expressing the protest of young people against the Vietnam War in the late 60ies. I remember well a highly emotional debate about my hair with my parents … Continue reading
Stone Age after the Stone Age: Findings from the “Ochsenhart” site in Bavaria
This is a rough out of an early Bronze Age dagger from the Bavarian workshop site “Ochsenhardt”. Here the so called “Plattensilex” was used in large quantities for the production of daggers. Anyhow it remains unclear if this work was … Continue reading
Ritual Rattle or Children’s Play?
This is my post No 200. I am really astonished that I have about 300 readers per day worldwide. “Thank You!” for stopping by and visiting my site. “Thank You!” for reading my posts and for your stimulating discussions, which have shown, … Continue reading
Afghanistan arrowheads from the Bronze Age
These are some delicate leaf-shaped and elongated rhomboidal arrowheads from Northern Afghanistan. Such weaponry is not typical for the Neolithic cultures of this region, but becomes only important during the Bronze age. In fact, arrowheads are the only flint … Continue reading
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
Thumbnail Scrapers
Thumbnail scrapers are, as the name suggests, very tiny. Usually they are retouched around the top and along the sides of the flake or a short blade. Although a limited number of such artifacts from Mesolithic sites have been recognized … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronze Age, Mesolithic, neolithic, Thumbnail scrapers
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