Tag Archives: Magdalenian

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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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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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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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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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

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Needles from La Madeleine

  Some small bone tools from the La Madeleine (most probably fragments of needles). The exploitation of animal bones, antlers and ivory as raw materials for the production of utilitarian tools as well as for ritual and art objects became … Continue reading

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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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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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The Prehistory of the Bergerac region in the Dordogne.

Two bifaces from Corbiac (Commune de Lembras) The Bergerac flint outcrops represent one of the finest sources of high quality flint in France. Consequently there is an immense number of Paleolithic and Neolithic Workshops near Bergerac, exposed by plow or … Continue reading

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Small Magdalenian Projectiles

The upper and late Magdalenian at the type-site La Madeleine (http://www.aggsbach.de/2010/10/la-madeleine-and-the-magdalenian/) shows an incredible richness of needle sharp small projectile points, which are neither adequately displayed in Peyrony`s monograph, nor in the dissertation of Sonneville-Bordes. These points usually exhibit a marginal, … Continue reading

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