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#Palaeolithic

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Cassana 🍻

I was playing this #flute earlier. Sadly, recordings didn't come out that great though; it's pretty tricky.
This is a reconstruction #palaeolithic flute based on the find at Grubgraben, Austria, 1994. It's attributed to the Epigravettian culture and dated 23,000-20,000 BP (according to updated research). Made from a reindeer tibia, it's the earliest-known #instrument with holes made by a flint drill; older ones had scraped holes instead. #Histodons #History #Prehistory #Paleolithic

The flute, around 16cm (6.3 inches) long, laying on my coffee table, oriented vertically. The bone, as mentioned a reindeer tibia, is off-white in colour with patches of light brown or beige. The three holes are perfectly round and in line. According to the maker: "The very last turns of the drill before the drill breaks through have to be made with care with both low pressure and low speed. This keeps the bone from splintering if the drill jams in the hole." I think this beautifully illustrates how skilled the makers of the original artefact were. The blowing end, which was damaged in the found artefact is the main point of interpretation. In this reconstruction, the maker decided to go for a slanted edge, which seems most historically supported, though we'll never truly know.
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Cassana 🍻

Tidldibab, an #instrument name with credits. In 1995 Ivan turk (TI) found a cave bear cub femur with curiously spaced holes in the Divje Babe cave (dibab), Slovenia. According to ESR dating the artefact is 50k-60k years old. In 2011 Ljuben Dimkaroski (DL) began his independent research. He concluded it was a protoflute, and called his reconstructions Tidldibab. Here's a snippet of me playing my ceramic Tidldibab. #History #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Musicology… (1/5)

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Radical Anthropology

On the occasion of the death of world famous #Neolithic #archaeologist and Tory peer #ColinRenfrew we have a few things to say.

Looking down at us from the #Cambridge high table, he made some severe misjudgements. His #sapientparadox was an attempt to argue that while #Homosapiens bodies evolved in #Africa, somehow we didn't get smart till we hit #Europe.

Also highly questionable was his attitude to the #cognition of #huntergatherers who, so he said, 'lacked fully developed mind'. According to him, they needed to borrow language from farmers.

We had some big political and social institutional differences with Renfrew. Our own Chris Knight goes through the whole context in a review below

#archaeology #Renfrew #racism #Indigenous #Palaeolithic #humanorigins

JRAI 2002, 8: 807-8
A devastating review by Chris Knight of the Runciman collection 'The Origin of Human Social Institutions'

Screenshot of JRAI 2002 vol 8 p.807 1st page of scathing review by Chris Knight of the Runcimnn collection 'The Origin of Human Social Institutions'
Screenshot of JRAI 2002 vol 8 p.807 2nd page of scathing review by Chris Knight of the Runciman collection 'The Origin of Human Social Institutions'
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Matt Willemsen

300,000 Years Ago, Humanity Knew Craftsmanship: “Extraordinary” Schöningen Spears Unveil Early Human Ingenuity
scitechdaily.com/300000-years- #archaeology #woodworking #spears #germany #Palaeolithic

SciTechDaily · 300,000 Years Ago, Humanity Knew Craftsmanship: “Extraordinary” Schöningen Spears Unveil Early Human IngenuityIn 1994, archaeological digs at the Schöningen open-cast coal mine unveiled humanity's oldest known hunting tools in an extraordinary state of preservation, sparking worldwide excitement. Spears and a double-pointed throwing stick were found lying between animal bones about ten meters below the surf
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G. D'Andrea Curra

New research that combines spatial analysis with studies of lithic technology, faunal remains and marine shells has identified similarities and differences in the organisation of the living space of Neanderthals and H. Sapiens at a site in northern Italy (Université de Montréal, University of Genoa). #archaeology #science #palaeolithic nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/arti

nouvelles.umontreal.caMake yourself at home... 40,000 years agoAn UdeM study unveils fresh insights into how Neanderthals and Homo sapiens organized their living spaces at the Riparo Bombrini site in northern Italy.
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Mick Garratt

Creswell Crags

Creswell Crags, that limestone gorge separating Nottinghamshire with Derbyshire, has a bit of celebrated status in archaeological circles — specifically the Palaeolithic, the Ice Age.

It turns out the Neanderthals were around here some 60,000 to 40,000 years ago when Creswell was a desolate, tundra like scene, with grasslands stretching as far as the eye could see over northern Europe. ...

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#Derbyshire#Nottinghamshire#Palaeolithic
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