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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THE BURIAL PRACTICES OF THE GRAVETTIAN AND THE EPI-GRAVETTIAN PERIODS IN ITALY, CZECH REPUBLIC, AND RUSSIA [PDF]
Jurnal Sosioteknologi, 2021 This paper describes the burial practice in the Gravettian (early Upper Paleolithic) and the Epi-Gravettian periods (lateUpper Paleolithic) in Italy, and the Gravettian period (early Upper Paleolithic) in Czech and Russia. In Italy, the Gravettianand the Epi-Gravettian burial sites were mostly situated in caves because geologically Italy has extensive
Arif, Johan
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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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The Gravettian on the Middle Danube [PDF]
Paleo, 2007 This paper resumes actual results and current viewpoints on the Gravettian in the Middle Danubian part of Europe. The origin of Gravettian is seen as a more complex process than was thought before, involving an impact of industries with backed blades and bladelets from the eastern Mediterranean (Ahmarian, Lagaman, Dabba, beginning before 40 ky BP ...
Jiří Svoboda
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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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New Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Gravettian in Eastern Central Europe [PDF]
Radiocarbon, 2019 AbstractThe Middle Upper Palaeolithic (MUP) in eastern Central Europe (ECE) comprises three variants of Gravettian culture: Early Gravettian, Pavlovian, and Late Gravettian. While Early Gravettian and Pavlovian are merely located in Lower Austria and Moravia, the Late Gravettian occupations occurred over the entire territory of ECE.
Wilczynski, J. +8 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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Hunting High and Low: Gravettian Hunting Weapons from Southern Italy to the Russian Plain
Open Archaeology, 2017 The current paper aims at describing and analysing the backed tools found in two Early Gravettian sites separated geographically from each other: Grotta Paglicci (layer 23-22) in Italy, and Kostenki 8 (layer II) in Russia. A similarity between the lithic
Borgia Valentina
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