Gravettian hand stencils as sign language formatives [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Abstract Several Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites from the Gravettian period display hand stencils with missing fingers. On the basis of the stencils that Leroi-Gourhan identified in the cave of Gargas (France) in the late 1960s, we explore the hypothesis that those stencils represent hand signs with deliberate folding of ...
Aritz Irurtzun
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Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean yielded sub spherical gravels with a highly shiny appearance that have intrigued researchers since the 1930s.
Lila Geis +4 more
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Examining Gravettian and Magdalenian mobility and technological organization with IR spectroscopy [PDF]
Scientific ReportsArchaeologists can use the provenance of lithic raw materials to examine the movements, territories, and settlement dynamics of hunter-gatherers. Several studies have used macroscopic analyses to propose the long-distance transport of raw material during
Benjamin Schürch +2 more
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Gravettian cranial morphology and human group affinities during the European Upper Palaeolithic [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 Archaeologically defined Upper Palaeolithic (UP, 45,000–10,000 years ago) “cultures” are often used as proxies to designate fossil populations. While recent genomic studies have partly clarified the complex relationship between European UP “cultures” and
Aurélien Mounier +5 more
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Redefining shared symbolic networks during the Gravettian in Western Europe: New data from the rock art findings in Aitzbitarte caves (Northern Spain). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The renewal of the archaeological record, mainly through the discovery of unpublished sites, provides information that sometimes qualifies or even reformulates previous approaches.
Diego Garate +5 more
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Mobility and social identity in the Mid Upper Paleolithic: New personal ornaments from Poiana Cireșului (Piatra Neamț, Romania). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Most of the Paleolithic art and ornaments discovered in Romania come from the site of Poiana Cireșului. Four Paleolithic layers have been studied at this site-the oldest one belongs to the Early Gravettian period between 30 ka and 31 ka BP. The ornaments
Elena-Cristina Nițu +5 more
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The microstructure and the origin of the Venus from Willendorf [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The origin and key details of the making of the ~ 30,000 year old Venus from Willendorf remained a secret since its discovery for more than a hundred years.
Gerhard W. Weber +9 more
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Gravettian and Epigravettian personal ornaments in Eastern Carpathians
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 The Upper Palaeolithic in the eastern Carpathians is characterized by a high density of sites, mostly attributed chronologically to the Gravettian or the Epigravettian.
Cârciumaru, M. +5 more
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Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe European Final Palaeolithic witnessed marked changes in almost all societal domains. Despite a rich body of evidence, our knowledge of human palaeodemographic processes and regional population dynamics still needs to be improved.
Isabell Schmidt +24 more
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PaleoAnthropology, 2022 During the Gravettian several innovations in lithic technology and typology appear. Blank production focuses on long, straight and narrow blades and bladelets.
Andreas Taller, Nicholas J. Conard
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