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The Meaning of Colors
Colorful Neolithic arrowheads (largest example: 6×1,8×0,3 cm). All material productions are culturally, socially and physically embedded. From the ethnological record, we know that in traditional societies, raw material for stone tool production is not solely selected for its functional properties. … Continue reading
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Tagged Colors, Ochre, Pigment, Steinzeit, stone age
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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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Resharpening, Retooling, Lithic Variability and Behavioral Patterns
Resharpening of stone artifacts as an important factor in determining lithic variability became an important issue in the 1980ies, although first considerations about this topic appeared in the literature as early as the 1867 (Reliquiae Aquitanicae). The phenomenon was also … Continue reading
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Middle Paleolithic Convergent Scraper
This is a large scraper from a Non-Levallois blank with convergent ends and side retouches. It was found in the Department of Seine Maritime and is dated between 300 and 50 thousand years BP. Convergent scrapers provide a good example … Continue reading
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Tagged Middle Paleolithic, Mousterian, Reduction, Scaper, Steinzeit, stone age
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Mousterian / MSA Point from Maroc
This is a Middle Paleolithic / MSA Point from Maroc with extraordinary continuous and regular retouches. The projectile function of the artifact displayed here, is obvious. Convergent artifacts in the European Middle Paleolithic and the MSA have been found to … Continue reading
Between the Raw Material Provinces: Handaxe from the Weser Valley
There is a pattern apparent in the distribution of Lower Palaeolithic artefact assemblages in Europe: Handaxe (Acheulian) signatures are normal in the south and west but generally are rare or even absent in the North and East. Lower Paleolithic ensembles … Continue reading
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Tagged Acheulean, Acheulian, Biface, Handaxe, Steinzeit, stone age
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The Quina Mousterian in the Charente: Mousterian Variability
These artefacts are from a single site in the Charente, showing characteristic traits of the Quina-Mousterian of the region. In 1953 François Bordes published an Essay of the classification of “industries moustériennes”, in which he proposed a typology for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charene, Middle Paleolithic, Mousterian, MSA, Quina, Steinzeit, stone age
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Espines
Espins is a small village 27 km south of Caen in the Region in the Lower-Normandy, Department of Calvados. These handaxes were made of low quality chert and display an “Acheulian” character. They seem to be older than other handaxes … 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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Tagged Leaf Point, Shouldered point, Solutrean, Steinzeit, stone age
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Ceraunia, Thunderbolts and Antiquarians: The early History of Prehistory
Greek natural philosophers, where the first that proposed, that that humans, like any animal are part of nature and subject to natural laws. They were convinced that natural phenomena should be explained through natural causes and natural agents, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiquarians, Ceraunia, Steinzeit, stone age, Thunderbolts
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