Microscopic traceological analysis of an engraved reindeer antler from La Marche in western France has identified deliberate cuts made with multiple tools and organized into distinct zones. The video argues that this Magdalenian artifact is one of the strongest Paleolithic candidates for an artificial memory system. La Marche is also famous for engraved limestone plaques depicting human heads and bodies.
Microscopic analysis finds organized engraving on a Magdalenian antler from La Marche
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Key facts
- The artifact is an engraved reindeer-antler fragment from La Marche at Lussac-les-Châteaux in Vienne, western France.
- La Marche is known for engraved limestone plaques featuring naturalistic human heads, bodies and other human-themed imagery.
- Microscopic and traceological study has identified multiple series of marks made with at least three different tools, with differences in their shapes and placement.
- The video argues that the organized engraving makes the antler one of the strongest Paleolithic candidates for an artificial memory system; this is an interpretation, not an established archaeological consensus.
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Upper magdalenian hi-res stock photography and images - Alamyalamy.com
Made from bone or antler, it exhibits craftsmanship, engraving, and design indicative of Upper Paleolithic material culture. Preserved as part of archaeological ...
Grotte de la Marche - Don's Mapsdonsmaps.com
La Marche was an important archaeological site of engravings from the Magdalenian III, and became considered to be the earliest such deposit.
La Marche (cave) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
The artwork found in La Marche is specifically from the middle Magdalenian period, dating to approximately 14,000 or 15,000 years before the current era (BCE).
Socio-economic dynamics of Magdalenian hunter-gatherers - PMCpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The region yields a series of EMM cave or rock shelter sites located in the valleys of the Vienne (La Marche, the Réseau Guy-Martin, the Fadets, the Terriers), ...
Magdalenian cultures | Anthropology | Research Starters - EBSCOebsco.com
Named after the La Madeleine rock shelter in France, these cultures are noted for utilizing materials like flint, bone, and antler to create efficient weapons ...
Detail of the main face of an antler artifact of undetermined ...researchgate.net
La Marche, Vienne, engraved with multiple series of marks. Three different tools were used in the area shown, approximately 2 cm wide, found engraved on Upper ...
engraved antler/bone/ivory; portable artbritishmuseum.org
Description: Fragment of engraved reindeer metatarsal decorated on one surface with two reindeer, one of which is now incomplete. The head of the figure ...
The Case of La Marche (Lussac-les-Châteaux, Vienne)hal.science
by S Chisena · 2018 · Cited by 7 — Abstract: In this paper, we have explored the possibility of assigning the humanthemed engravings from. La Marche to their authors, ...
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