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Tag Archives: Epipaleolithic
Hunting Prey and collecting Hazelnuts in the European Mesolithic
Waterlogged peat prevents organic finds from oxidizing and has led to some of the best preservation conditions for organic material possible. Many “bog findings” were made during and between the wars in Denmark. The Danes just needed turf for fuel … Continue reading
Transitions during the Paleolithic of North Africa
These are three Epipaleolithic artifacts from western Morocco. While we know numerous sites from the Iberomaurusian and Capsian, industries from the Initial Upper Paleolithic in N-Africa are scare. The period between the Middle Palaeolithic (a Levallois-Mousterian with or without pedunculated … Continue reading
Epipaleolithic blade from Maroc
A large (14x4x1,5cm) Epipaleolithic blade from Maroc The Epipaleolithic of theMaghreb is spanning the time from the LGM about 20000 ka BP until the Holocene. During this time span both temperate and wet climates, but also hyperarid conditions were present … Continue reading
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Tagged Capsian, Epipaleolithic, Iberomaurusian, Steinzeit
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Conformism in prehistoric societies
Some microlithis from the North/West Sahara-traces of a long standing conformism in the production of such artifacts. Prehistoric archaeology is often modeled through the paradigm of the collective. Conformistic collectives adapt to their environment and their decisions are made in … Continue reading
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Tagged Epipaleolithic, Levante, Microliths, MSA, Sahara
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Pointe de Mouillah
It is generally accepted that the Iberomaurusian represents the earliest Upper Paleolithic technology in the Maghreb. In terms of the lithic inventories, Camps noted that the Iberomaurusian is a bladelet industry with a bias towards microliths (Camps 1974). Mouillah points, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bladelet, Epipaleolithic, Iberomaurusian, Mouillah Point
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Ounanian-Points
The first expansion of hunter/ gatherers after the last glacial maximum, during the terminal Pleistocene moist phase and early Holocene into the Sahara is characterized by a non-microlithic Epipalaeolithic blade-based industry with characteristic elegant shouldered and side notched points (Ounanian-points), … Continue reading
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Tagged Epipaleolithic, Shouldered point, tanged point
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The Iberomaurusian of N-Africa
Implements from the Gafsa-area (Tunesia). The Iberomaurusian represents the earliest Upper Palaeolithic in the Maghreb. This technocomplex was introduced in 1909 by Pallary who described an microlithic industry from Abri Mouillah (western Algeria). Geographically, the Iberomaurusians occupied the Mediterranean littoral … Continue reading
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Tagged Backed piece, Epipaleolithic, Maghreb, Ouchtata
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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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Tagged Ahrensburg, Dryas, Epipaleolithic, Stellmoor, tanged point
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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
Swiderian Arrowhead made of chocolate flint
The Swiderian is recognized as a distinctive Eastern European culture of Reindeer hunters during the Dryas III contemporaneous with the Ahrensburgian and late Bromme Complex. Allthough orientated to the East, the Swiderian also extended to North/Western Europe. Recent radiocarbon dates … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahrensburgian, Epipaleolithic, Swiderian, tanged point
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