The Venus of Brassempouy is an ivory figurine created about 25,000 years ago and is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a female human face.
Learn more / Daha fazlası Brassempouy: https://www.archaeologs.com/w/brassempouy/
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The Venus of Brassempouy is an ivory figurine created about 25,000 years ago and is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a female human face.
Learn more / Daha fazlası Brassempouy: https://www.archaeologs.com/w/brassempouy/
🇬🇧 Leptolithic Describing industries with many blades and blade tools, especially end scrapers, burins, and backed blades, typical of the Upper Palaeolithic. The term leptolithic, literally 'of small stones', has sometimes been used specifically to refer to this type of stone technology, without any dating connotation or evolutionary position. 🇹🇷 Leptolitik Leptolitik, Üst Paleolitik dönem içerisindeki alet endüstrisine verilen bir isim. Küçük taş, kaya parçalarından yapılan bıçakları, bıçak takımlarını, kazıma araçlarını, sırtlı bıçakları ve taş kalemlerini içerir. Terim, kelime anlamıyla 'küçük taşlardan' anlamını taşımaktadır. Herhangi bir tarihlendirme yapılmadığı zamanlar bu tür taş teknolojisine atıfta bulunmak için de kullanılır.
A team of researchers from China, Australia, France, Spain, and Germany has revealed advanced material culture in East Asia dating to 45,000 years ago.
Shiyu provides us with an opportunity to look into the life of the skillful hunters from northern China 45,000 years ago. The people inhabiting the region had a remarkably advanced tool kit, with a range of innovative tools from the Upper Paleolithic, including end-scrapers, awls, and tools of former times, including Middle Paleolithic Levallois points, various tanged tools, denticulates, and borers.
A team of researchers from China, Australia, France, Spain, and Germany has revealed advanced material culture in East Asia dating to 45,000
Lowenmensch--the oldest sculpture in the world
Lowenmensch–the oldest sculpture in the world
Lowenmensch, a lion-headed person, found in Germany, has been dated to 35,000 to 40,000 BCE, making it the oldest sculpture so far known. Carved out of mammoth ivory, it is found in a cave at Hohlenstein-Stadel, part of an Upper Palaeolithic Cultue, the Auringnacian. The sculpture, preserved in a museum in Ulm town, is 31.1 cm high. There is a dispute about whether it is a male or female. A…
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Venus of Savignano
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This is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998. In the schist rocks of the Côa Valley , in open-air panels, there are multiple engravings depicting humans and animals. These date back to the Upper Palaeolithic, around 25,000 years ago. It´s possible to visit the place or, in alternative, appreciate the representations of the engraving in the Côa Museum.
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Archaeologists have found artefacts from almost every time period since the Ice Age along the route of a new road.
The Oxford-based experts were called in after workers on the Bexhill to Hastings link road found prehistoric flints.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA--As many as three-fourths of the hand stencils found in caves in southern France and northern Spain were made by females, according to an analysis of the size of the handprints conducted by Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University. “When scaled against modern hands, stencils from 32 caves in France and Spain tended to fall near the ends of that continuum, suggesting that sexual dimorphism (the difference between male and female) was more pronounced during the Upper Paleolithic,” he said. “It wasn’t just a bunch of guys out there chasing bison around,” Snow added.
*This is really cool, but does it take into account any discrepancies between contemporary average male/female hand sizes and the Upper Palaeolithic?