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Bechar / Algeria: Aterian Artifacts and their functional meaning

Posted on 01/22/2012 by Katzman

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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Ounanian-Points

Posted on 05/26/2011 by Katzman

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

Posted on 03/29/2011 by Katzman

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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To Be or not to Be Aterian

Posted on 03/23/2011 by Katzman

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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Swiderian Arrowhead made of chocolate flint

Posted on 01/08/2011 by Katzman

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(http://www.aggsbach.de/2010/11/bromme-point/). 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

Posted on 12/23/2010 by Katzman

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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