Aurignacian
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Depuis 2009, la reprise de l’étude de la grotte de Baume Latrone (France, Gard), dirigée par Marc Azéma, porte principalement sur le relevé de ses étonnantes images pariétales, dessinées à l’argile ou gravées sur le calcaire, en combinant... more
This article unveils imagery that seems intended to be recognized in phases from such sites as Font-de-Gaume (pg. 24), Laugerie-Basse (pg. 35-37), Isturitz (pg. 37-38), Saint-Cirq-du-Bugue (pg. 38-39), and Guy-Martin (pg. 26-35), after... more
This study presents and discusses a methodology to study population contact scenarios among Pleistocene hunter-gatherers. It applies this methodology to the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Middle Danube region by testing... more
In 1939, excavators uncovered in Hohlenstein-StadelCave nearly 200 mammoth ivory fragments that were refitted as a therianthrope figurine with the head and upper body of a cave lion and the lower body and legs of a human being. It was... more
Les fouilles récentes menées par Christian Normand à la grotte d’Isturitz ont livré un riche ensemble d’objets de parure aurignaciens en contexte chrono-stratigraphique. Nous présentons ici une première étude de ce corpus en focalisant... more
Kniha byla vydána roku 2003 v Kijevě / The book was published in 2003 in Kiev.
A very small ivory plate excavated in the cave of Geißenklösterle, Germany, shows on the front side the half relief of a manlike being and rows of notches at the rear side and at the border. Based on archaeological data, the... more
The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition around 35,000 years ago coincides with the replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans in Europe. Several hypotheses have been suggested to explain this replacement, one of them... more
The Aurignacian, traditionally regarded as marking the beginnings of Sapiens in Europe, is notoriously hard to date, being almost out of reach of radiocarbon. Here the authors return to the stratified sequence in the Franchthi Cave,... more
Early Upper Paleolithic sites in the Danube catchment have been put forward as evidence that the river was an important conduit for modern humans during their initial settlement of Europe. Central to this model is the Carpathian Basin, a... more
Defining varying spatial and temporal analytical scales is essential before evaluating the responses of late Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens to Abrupt Environmental Transitions (AETs) and environmental disasters for the period 130-25... more
Hohle Fels Cave near Schelklingen in the Ach Valley (Swabian Jura) has yielded a rich archaeological sequence with Magdalenian, Gravettian, Aurignacian and Middle Palaeolithic horizons. One meter of deposits preserve the Aurignacian... more
Comparative analysis of human-mammoth relations in the Swabian Aurignaican and human-owl relations in the Pavlovian of East-Central Europe.
The origin and development of the graphic expression are currently topics of scientific debate. The present work analyzes and evaluates the context of portable art before the Solutrean (~50.000 to ~24.000 cal BP) in the western Pyrenees... more
In the years immediately before and after World War I, a small but important collection of objects from various Cantabrian sites came to the AMNH in New York by the hands of the American archaeologist N. C. Nelson. In a previous work one... more
Vorlage von typischen Artefakten! Der Jägerhalt liegt auf dem Kleinen Anzinger, einer Anhöhe des südlich der Donau gelegenen Dunkelsteinerwaldes (südliches Niederösterreich).