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The management of symbolic raw materials in the Late Upper Paleolithic of South-Western France: a shell ornaments perspective

Peer Community Journal, 2022
Personal ornaments manufactured on marine and fossil shell are a significant element of Upper Palaeolithic symbolic material culture, and are often found at considerable distances from Pleistocene coastlines or relevant fossil deposits.
Rigaud, Solange, O’Hara, John, Charles, Laurent, Man-Estier, Elena, Paillet, Patrick   +4 more
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The aminochronology of man-induced Shell middens in caves in Northern Spain [PDF]

, 2009
HHere, we provide the first report on the ages of 54 archaeological levels in 38 caves in northern Spain by means of the aspartic acid DIL ratio measurements in Patella shells, with good results.
Torres Pérez-Hidalgo, Trinidad José
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The Magdalenian Avifauna at Erralla Cave. [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 1985
Anne Eastham
doaj   +1 more source

The Magdalenian horse (Equus ferus arcelini) from Roc-aux-Sorciers (Angles-sur-l’Anglin, France): Seasonality and paleoecology

Quaternary Environments and Humans
Roc-aux-Sorciers is one of the most emblematic sites of Magdalenian culture, particularly known for its bas-relief and high-relief sculpted frieze depicting animals and humans, dated to the Middle Magdalenian.
Patricia Valensi, Nicolas Boulbes, Florent Rivals   +2 more
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The Epigravettian of Kůlna Cave?

Archeologické Rozhledy, 2019
Several archaeological artefacts from Kůlna Cave (Blansko disctrict, Czech Republic) date its settlement to the last 250 thousand years. The stratigraphy both inside the cave and at the entrance was complicated, so that macroscopically similar sediments
Zdeňka Nerudová, Martin Moník
doaj   +1 more source

Istállóskő revisited: Lithic artefacts and assemblages, sixty years after [PDF]

, 2015
The Istállóskő cave, one of the classical sites in Hungary was generally regarded as the only important locality of the Aurignacian culture with two discrete culture-bearing layers.
Markó, András
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An Upper Palaeolithic engraved human bone associated with ritualistic cannibalism.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Cut-marked and broken human bones are a recurrent feature of Magdalenian (~17-12,000 years BP, uncalibrated dates) European sites. Human remains at Gough's Cave (UK) have been modified as part of a Magdalenian mortuary ritual that combined the intensive ...
Silvia M Bello, Rosalind Wallduck, Simon A Parfitt, Chris B Stringer   +3 more
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Ornaments from the Magdalenian burial area in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, northern Spain). Were they grave goods? [PDF]

, 2015
International audienceEl Mirón Cave, located in northern Atlantic Iberia, has produced important evidence of human occupation during the Lower Magdalenian (19-17.5 cal kya).
Cuenca-Solana, David, Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Igor   +1 more
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Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
wiley   +1 more source

Steps towards operationalizing an evolutionary archaeological definition of culture [PDF]

, 2011
This paper will examine the definition of archaeological cultures/techno-complexes from an evolutionary perspective, in which culture is defined as a system of social information transmission.
Riede, F
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