Socio-economic dynamics of Magdalenian hunter-gatherers: Functional perspective. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 The beginning of the Middle Magdalenian is marked by an increase in the density and geographic extension of evidences of human occupation across western Europe. The Early Middle Magdalenian (19,5-17,5 ka cal. BP) thereby extends from Poland to Spain, and
Eugénie Gauvrit Roux
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Knapping tools in Magdalenian contexts: New evidence from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Our knowledge of the recolonization of north-west Europe at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum depends to a large extent on finds from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK).
Silvia M Bello +3 more
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Artists on the edge of the world: An integrated approach to the study of Magdalenian engraved stone plaquettes from Jersey (Channel Islands). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The Upper Palaeolithic is characterised by the appearance of iconographic expressions most often depicting animals, including anthropomorphic forms, and geometric signs.
Silvia M Bello +13 more
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Upper Palaeolithic fishing techniques: Insights from the engraved plaquettes of the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, Germany. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe ~15,800 year-old Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, in Germany, has produced 406 engraved schist plaquettes which have been extensively studied in the past.
Jérôme Robitaille +5 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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A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsCaves are primary sites for studying human and animal subsistence patterns and genetic ancestry throughout the Palaeolithic. Iberia served as a critical human and animal refugium in Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), 26.5 to 19 thousand years ...
Pere Gelabert +20 more
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The ecomorphology of Caribou (Rangifer tarandus): a geometric morphometric study. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Open Research Europe, 2021 Paleolithic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) was a key species for human populations in western and central Europe during much of the Paleolithic period. In Southwestern France, and in particular during the Magdalenian, reindeer frequently figures among the ...
Ariane Burke +2 more
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New insights of cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe manipulation of human corpses started to become commonplace during the Upper Paleolithic. This well-documented behavior among Magdalenian peoples consists of perimortem manipulation and the removal of soft tissues and has been understood as forming ...
Francesc Marginedas +5 more
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Late Glacial rapid climate change and human response in the Westernmost Mediterranean (Iberia and Morocco). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 This paper investigates the correlation between climate, environment and human land use in the Westernmost Mediterranean on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar during the Late Glacial.
Gerd-Christian Weniger +6 more
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El uso de materias colorantes en el Paleolítico superior de la cueva de Lumentxa (Lekeitio, Bizkaia, Norte de la Península Ibérica) [PDF]
Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2021 El ocre es un material colorante utilizado desde épocas antiguas por los cazadores-recolectores de todo el planeta. Estudiamos 34 objetos recuperados en los niveles magdalenienses de la cueva de Lumentxa durante las intervenciones de los años veinte del ...
José Luis Arribas Pastor +2 more
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