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Tanged

One tanged instrument (maybe an unfinished arrow point) from the Dutch Neolithic and four tanged arrow points from the PPNB of the Levant. Projectile points made of stone are known since  the MSA  and the Middle Paleolithic  (http://www.aggsbach.de/2011/11/mousterian-msa-point-from-maroc/) (http://www.aggsbach.de/2011/10/targeting-prey-by-bow-and-arrow/) Composite … Continue reading

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A Leaf Point from Solutré

The time period of the late glacial maximum, around 20 k.a. years ago, offered the most rigorous and challenging environments for human adaptation, and may have offered the most severe natural selection pressure for evolutionary changes in the organization of … Continue reading

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Lost and Found: Epigravettian Point from the Gargano peninsula

In Western Europe, between ca. 22 k.a. and 20 k.a cal BP, human groups responded to LGM environmental conditions by developing a suite of new technologies characterized by a variety of diagnostic projectile points produced by bifacial retouch, which define … Continue reading

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Shouldered Points during the Upper Paleolithic

This is a shouldered point found during the 19th century in the Provence with no contextual information.  Shouldered points during the Upper Paleolithic appeared first in the context of the French Perigordian / Gravettian. They are known from the Périgord … Continue reading

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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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Hengistbury Head: A “Zinken” from a “Hambourgian like” ensemble

This surface find is a typical “Zinken”, and the first one ever noted from Hengistbury Head. During the British Final Paleolithic (Most probably related to the Maiendorf / Bölling Interstadial), shouldered and tanged point industries, resembling the classic Hambourgian forms … Continue reading

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