This object — and many similar Magdalenian engraved bone “spatulas” — have no confirmed function.

Dated roughly 14,000–15,000 years old.

#Prehistory #Archaeology #Magdalenian #Paleolithic #PortableArt

A Seal Tooth Sat in a Museum Drawer for 157 Years. Nobody Knew What It Was. A perforated pendant from Kents Cavern reveals the surprisingly long reach of Magdalenian social worlds

Misidentified for 157 years as a badger tooth, this 15,000-year-old grey seal pendant from Kents Cavern is actually Britain’s only known Upper Palaeolithic seal ornament. A rare glimpse into the vast reach of the Magdalenian world. #Paleoanthropology #UpperPalaeolithic #Magdalenian

What15,0000-year-old jewellery found in a cave tells us about prehistoric life Even when living hundreds of miles from the sea, Magdalenian people had a strong cultural connection to it

The polished Magdalenian seal tooth from Kent's Cavern in Devon is 15,000 years old (not as in confusing headline where the date could only apply to North African shell beads!)

www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology...

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#Podcast, "La grotte de Lascaux en cinq podcasts"
Série de 5 épisodes.
@radiofrance.fr via @skl-design.bsky.social
#Sapiens #Lascaux #Paleolithic #Magdalenian #CaveArt #Cave #Périgord #Dordogne #NouvelleAquitaine #France #ArtParietal #Préhistoire #Magdaléniens
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Cave Art Identified in Czech Republic Excavation Spoil Heap PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—According to a Radio Prague International report, engravings of the heads and necks […] The post Cave Art Identified in Czech Republic Excavation Spoil Heap appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.

📢 New Blog Post
How can a rock from hundreds of kilometers away become a stone tool? Dr. Johanna Hilpert explains how HESCOR researchers study prehistoric #networks of interaction and #exchange 🌐🤝

🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/f0t5G

#Magdalenian #LBK #Modelling

#GrotteDeRouffignac near #LesEyzies #France is one of the #prehistoric #caves where you can get a tour and actually go #inside There are several caves right nearby that have hundreds of #Magdalenian #engravings #BlueSkyArtShow #UNESCO World Heritage Site. Stay at #HostellerieLaRoseraie in Montignac

#GrottedesCombarelles #UNESCO #WorldHeritageSite Features 800+ #Magdalenian #engravings This is one of the places where you can get a guided tour into the #caves and shelters. #AbriDuCapBlanc also has tours. #GrotteDeFontDuGaume closed temporarily, maybe open in 2026 www.sites-les-eyzies.fr

#The #history of #ivory #reindeer carvings dates back to the #Magdalenian #period of the Upper #Palaeolithic,

17,000 to 12,000 #history . These intricate carvings, often made from mammoth ivory, depict reindeer and were created during a time when reindeer were a crucial part of the human culture

On the left, a reproduction of a wild horse carving in the French National Museum of Prehistory, les Eyzies; next to a photo of the actual carving still in La Chaire à Calvin rock shelter, Charente. Magdalenian period c.13000 BCE. Wonderful lines.
#Prehistory #Caveart #Stoneage #Magdalenian #France

Find for free our last paper about a Pleistocene #dog found in La Traoucade cave in #Ardèche, France. This nearly complete skeleton (16.0–15.3 cal ka BP) raise the question of relationships between canids & #magdalenian human groups
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ko5T-4PSD...
@umr5608traces.bsky.social

In a cave in Poland, signs of prehistoric cannibalism Practice may reflect violent competition for new territory 18,000 years ago

Guess who's coming to dinner…

New evidence for #Magdalenian #cannibalism from #MaszyckaCave near Kraków, 18,000 years ago:

🏺 www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via @science.org

💀 CN: Couple gruesome details on, well, human consumption.

Ancient Europeans ate the brains of their dead enemies 18,000 years ago, researchers discover A study of skeletons from a cave in Poland has revealed widespread evidence of cut marks and fractures suggestive of cannibalism.

"The bones were dated to 18,000 years ago, during the #Magdalenian period of European #prehistory, and came from at least 10 people: six adults and four children."

www.livescience.com/archaeology/....

#archaeology #pagan #cannibalism #war

The bone, antler and ivory artefacts from the #Magdalenian sites of Gönnersdorf and Andernach-Martinsberg (Germany) are being re-examined by use wear analysis. This provides new insights into manufacturing techniques, usage, repairs and reuse.

#paleomonrepos #palaeolithic #archaeology #research

Drawing of the Reindeer carving, a younger smaller animal behind a larger one, both in their stretched outline following the elongated shape of the mammoth ivory they're carved from.

'Twas some 4,015,000 nights before Christmas …

#DeepHistorySanta🏺🎅: The Late #Magdalenian (11,000 BCE) "Swimming [well, flying, who are we kidding, right?] #Reindeer" from Montastruc (France), carved from mammoth ivory.

(Today in British Museum: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...)

#MerryChristmas from the archaeologist's 🏺 sketchbook:

The Late #Magdalenian (11,000 BCE) "Swimming (or flying? 😉) Reindeer" from Montastruc (France), carved from mammoth ivory. Pretty evocative.

Today in British Museum: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

One more #MerryChristmas #SundayArchaeology, this time in a #SketchbookSunday combo:

The Late #Magdalenian (11,000 BCE) "Swimming (or flying? 😉) #Reindeer" from Montastruc (France), carved from mammoth ivory. Evocative.

Today in @britishmuseum:...

A refined proposal for the origin of dogs: the case study... Dogs are known to be the oldest animals domesticated by h...

Original study:

Chr. Baumann et al., A refined proposal for the origin of #dogs: the case study of #Gnirshöhle, a #Magdalenian cave site, @SciReports 11, 5137 (2021). 🔓

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83719-7

#Magdalenian #dog hotspot? - Cluster of ancient #canine #fossils from a single cave in southwestern #Germany (#Gnirshöhle, Hegau Jura) has shown astounding genetic diversity, encompassing nearly the entire breadth of dog...

Conch shell in French museum found to be 17,000-year-old ... Conch, unearthed in cave in Pyrenees in 1931, had been ca...

#SoundsOfThePast: Conch #shell unearthed in #Marsoulas Cave (France) in 1931 apparently turned out 17,000-year-old #Magdalenian wind #instrument:

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/conch-... by @estheraddley...

Fascinating study of engraved stone #plaquettes from #Jersey (Channel Islands) as "evidence for technologies of abstract #mark-making, and their significance (...) on the edge of the #Magdalenian world":

S. M. Bello et al., @PLOSONE 15(8), 2020....

Doing some reading on #dog-#domestication and catching up with latest research on the #Magdalenian burial of Bonn-Oberkassel, where a severely ill puppy, too sick for being of any practical use, apparently was intensively cared for. People always loved their doggies.

Some more interesting thoughts on the possible representation of #childhood in the #archaeological record:

Michelle C. Langley, #Magdalenian #Children: Projectile Points, Portable Art and Playthings, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 37 (1), 2018,...

#Aurignacian #Gravettian #Solutrean #Magdalenian