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Bec from the Aisne Valley
This is a wonderful “bec” (11 cm long) from the Aisne Gravels. The raw material is identical to the material that was used during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of this region. While artifacts from early Paleolithic periods are abundant … Continue reading
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Tagged Bec, Bohrer, Magdalenian, Steinzeit, upper paleolithic
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Langbohrer from the S/W-German Magdalenian
There is a variety of Paleolithic tools that are usually called borers and which were indeed used as rotary Drills (http://www.aggsbach.de/2010/12/bohrer-drill-from-the-mesolithic-of-demark/). Artifacts with a suggested drilling function are known already from the early Paleolithic (Bilzingsleben, La Micoque). Drills were never very abundant … Continue reading
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Tagged Bec, Hambougien, Magdalenian, Magdalenien, Zinken
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Azilian from the Roc d’Abeilles rock shelter
These are three broken Azilian bi-points from the Espitalié collection excavated at the”Roc d’Abeilles” rock shelter in Dordogne. The Azilian (s.s) is an industry of the Epipaleolithic in northern Spain, France and Switzerland. It was first described from the large … Continue reading
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Tagged Alleröd, Azilian, Azilien, Federmesser, Magdalenian, Magdalenien
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A Zinken from the Hamburgian
This is a Hambourgian Zinken (6×2,8×1,2 cm). The Hamburgian culture is characterized by the association of specialized stone tools (shouldered points, Zinken, endscrapers with a lateral retouche) and by the presence of a mobile lifestyle of hunter-gatherer communities following large … Continue reading
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Tagged Bec, Cepoy-Marsagny, Hambourgian, Hamburgian, Magdalenian, Magdalenien, Steinzeit, Zinken
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Gare de Couze Magdalenian Site
This is a simple end scraper and a burin from the Gare de Couze Magdalenian-site (Collection Paul Fitte). The Couze is one of the left bank tributaries of the Dordogne river, has its source in the region of Belvès flows generally west … Continue reading
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Tagged Couze, Lalinde, Magdalenian, Magdalenien, Upper Paleolithoic
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Petersfels
This is a picture of the Petersfels cave, a large Magdalenian site in S/W-Germany, which I was lucky to visit in the very hot summer of 2003. It is a cave, slightly above the valley floor, with a large, well-preserved … Continue reading
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Tagged Magdalenian, Magdalenien, Petersfels, Venus Figurines, “Lalinde / Gönnersdorf”
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Solutré: Stratigraphy and Technocomplexes
The Paleolithic site of Solutré and the escarpment which protects it from the northwest winds are located a few miles west of the modern city of Mâcon, at the southern … Continue reading
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Tagged Aurignacian, Gravettian, Horse, Magdalenian, Mousterien, Solutré, Solutrian
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Bec de Perroquet burin from La Madeleine
This is a double Burin Bec de Perroquet from the Magdalenian VI at La Madeleine with one Bec broken. Usually so called “type-fossils” are only of limited chronological value during the Paleolithic, as extensively shown during the last 60 years. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bec de Perroquet, Burin, La Madeleine, Magdalenian, Vezere
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Late Magdalenian from Rochereil (Grand Brassac, Dordogne)
The Rochereil cave, is named after the Watermill Moulin de Rochereil located on the right side of the river Dronne near the confluence of the Euche, a right tributary of the Dronne, about 2.5 miles north of … Continue reading