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Font-Robert Point
This is a tanged point of the early middle upper Paleolithic from a leaf‐shaped blade of plano‐convex section, usually designated as Font-Robert point in the literature. These points were especially numerous at the Font-Robert rockshelter (Brive, Correze), excavated in 1905 … Continue reading
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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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Tagged Aerodynamics, neolithic, PPNA, PPNB, Shouldered point, stone age, tanged point
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Bechar / Algeria: Aterian Artifacts and their functional meaning
These are some “Aterian” artifacts from the Algerian Sahara showing the variability of a random sample. The morphological continuum of Aterian tools ranges from pointed and elongated triangular forms to rounded and squat blunt forms, as demonstrated in this post. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aterian, Aterien, MSA, Scraper, Steinzeit, stone age, tanged point, Variability
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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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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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To Be or not to Be Aterian
Middle Paleolithic (Middle Stone Age) Ensembles of Northern Africa have been found over a vast area, reaching from the Mediterranean to the Southern Margins of the Sahara, and from the Maghreb to the Nile Valley. Nowadays there is a broad … Continue reading
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Tagged Aterian, Foliates, Homo Sapiens, Maghreb, MSA, tanged point
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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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The Aterian: a Technocomplex created by H. Sapiens
Once thought to be an equivalent of the European Upper Paleolithic, the Aterian of the Maghreb, Libya and Egypt is now securely dated to OIS 5, 4 and 3 with the latest dates between 40 k.a. BP by TL, C-14,and ESR. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Aterian, H.sapiens, Middle Paleolithic, MSA, tanged point
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