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	Magdalenian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally termed "L'Age du Renne" (the age of the reindeer) by Lartet and Christy, the Magdalenian is synonymous in many people's minds with reindeer hunters, although Magdalenian sites also contain extensive evidence for the hunting of red deer, horse and other large mammals present in Europe towards the end of the last ice age.
		The earliest phases are recognised by the varying proportion of blades and specific varieties of scrapers, the middle phases marked by the emergence of a microlithic component (particularly the distinctive denticulated microliths) and the later phases by the presence of uniserial (phase 5) and biserial 'harpoons' (phase 6) made of bone, antler and ivory.
		As well as flint tools, the Magdalenians are best known for their elaborate worked bone, antler and ivory which served both functional and aesthetic purposes including bâtons de commandement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magdalenian (603 words)

	Magdalenian Girl is a woman and therefore has oldest recorded case of impacted wisdom teeth
		For years this rare, early anatomically modern human skeleton was thought to be that of a girl because her wisdom teeth had not erupted, an event that typically occurs between 18 and 22 years of age.
		New analysis of Magdalenian Girl's bones, however, has lead Field Museum scientists to conclude that she was not a girl but actually a 25- to 35-year-old woman at the time of her death.
		Magdalenian Girl, also known as the Cap Blanc skeleton, continues to reveal significant information about our early human relatives — and she may not be done yet.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-03/fm-mgi030206.php (1239 words)

	Cave painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When Europeans first encountered the Magdalenian paintings of the Altamira cave, Cantabria,pmg Spain in 1879, they were considered to be hoaxes by academics.
		Cave art may have begun in the Aurignacian period (Hohle Fels, Germany), but reached its apogee in the late Magdalenian (Lascaux, France).
		The paintings were drawn with red and yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide and charcoal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cave_painting (856 words)

	Cave Paintings
		Magdalenian artists did produce work in the open air, six examples of which, all engravings, have survived.
		Some Magdalenian artists clearly understood both the anatomy of the animals they depicted and their principles of motion, the result of intense observation over many years and of a self discipline in rendering which suggests a long apprenticeship and extensive study.
		That helps to explain why Magdalenian societies were prepared to devote such a high proportion of their scarce surplus resources to the creation of these art galleries.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/C/cave.html (2378 words)

	Our 13,000-year-old toothache
		Magdalenian Girl is one of the showpieces in a new $17 million exhibit that opens Friday at the Field Museum.
		The Magdalenian Girl skeleton will be shown in the fetal position in which it was discovered in Cap Blanc in Southern France in 1911, rather than supine as it has been in the past.
		Magdalenian Girl was discovered in 1911 in Southwestern France.
	www.suntimes.com /output/news/cst-nws-tooth07.html (766 words)

	LiveScience.com - New Wisdom on Ancient Skeleton's Teeth
		For years, these bones dating from 13,000 to 15,000 years ago were thought to be from a girl because her wisdom teeth had not yet erupted, something that typically should happen between the ages of 18 and 22.
		And the Magdalenian Girl's impacted wisdom teeth, which had failed to emerge at the normal time, provide new clues about the dietary changes of humans.
		The Magdalenian Girl was discovered in 1911 in southwestern France in the Cap Blanc rock shelter and is considered the most complete Upper Paleolithic skeleton in North America.
	www.livescience.com /humanbiology/060307_magdalenian_girl.html (481 words)

	Human Recolonisation of Europe: Back into the North
		The basic typology of the Magdalenian in its ‘core’ area (south-western France) is traditionally divided into six stages, generally accepted as having at least some genuine chronological significance (these are usually noted in Roman numerals), the final stage being subdivided into groups ‘a’ and ‘b’.
		Although in other areas of Europe the Magdalenian has been clearly defined chronologically by the use of radiocarbon dating, at the outset of this review in 1990 there were few radiocarbon dates for the Magdalenian in Belgium (a total of 15 were claimed: see Table 1).
		The lithic and worked bone material is certainly typologically Magdalenian and it perhaps corresponds most closely with Magdalenian V within the ‘classic’ sequence (based on the presence of a uniserial harpoon/barbed point made of reindeer antler Nº 1513 Musée Curtis, University of Liège) (Doize 1960).
	web.onetel.com /~ruthcharles/pps.htm (8987 words)

	Azilian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Azilian is a name given by archaeologists to an industry of the terminal Palaeolithic and early Mesolithic in northern Spain and southern France.
		It probably dates to the period of the Allerød Oscillation around 10,000 years ago and followed the Magdalenian culture.
		Archaeologists think the Azilian represents the tail end of the Magdalenian as the warming climate brought about changes in human behaviour in the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azilian (270 words)

	Wisdom Teeth Have Some Value After All \| Science Buzz
		It had been previously believed that the Magdalenian Girl was under the age of 18 at the time of her death because her wisdom teeth had not grown in, which usually happens between the ages of 18 and 22 (I was 20).
		But after a new analysis of the skull, scientists now believe the Magdalenian Girl was actually between the ages of 25 and 35 when she died.
		The skeleton of the Magdalenian Girl, the most complete Upper Paleolithic skeleton available for study in North America, is a part of the new permanent exhibition at the Field Museum called Evolving Planet.
	ltc.smm.org /buzz/blog/wisdom_teeth_have_some_value_after_all (782 words)

	Paleolithic Art in France a paper by Jean Clottes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Their images are often precise, personalised and identifiable in all their details (sexes, ages, attitudes), whether they be Magdalenian bison in the Ariege or Aurignacian lions and rhinos in the Chauvet Cave, 18,000 years earlier.
		Clay modellings are all dated to the Middle or Late Magdalenian and they are all found within a restricted area, in four caves of the Ariege Pyrenees : Labouiche, Bedeilhac, Montespan and Le Tuc d’Audoubert.
		The pigment was then crushed and mixed with a binder to ensure the fluidity of the paint which was then either applied with a finger or with a brush made with animal hair, or blown through the mouth (stencilling).
	www.bradshawfoundation.com /clottes/page2.html (1251 words)

	The Prehistoric Society - Book Review
		This is, at least, in accord with the typological nature of the lithic assemblage, which appears to be transitional between the Middle and Upper Magdalenian.
		The dominance of backed bladelets over burins is exceptional for the later Magdalenian of the wider area, although in other respects the assemblage is broadly comparable to contemporary (i.e.
		One of these (from which the 14C date came) was surrounded by large limestone blocks that appear to have functioned to delineate and shield the hearth.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /prehistoric/reviews/04_03_pettitt.htm (2090 words)

	Antiquity, Reviews: Footprints of the horse-people: new research on Upper Palaeolithic France
		Tosello's Late Magdalenian sample is largely taken from Limeuil and the upper levels of La Madeleine, supplemented by the Grotte des Eyzies and Le Soucy.
		Their apparently complex movement around major occupation sites suggests that their role/s in Magdalenian life were spatially embedded in more prosaic activities, an all-pervasive mediation between the multiple aspects of the Magdalenian mundane and spiritual world.
		The Late Magdalenian community of the Rocher de la Caille was part of a far-flung procurement network characteristic of the period.
	antiquity.ac.uk /reviews/pettitt.html (3068 words)

	parcours art prehistorique pyrenees version anglaise
		The itinerary of the exhibition follows the chronological evolution of the Magdalenian culture over the whole Pyrenean territory, through the three main French areas of the present time : Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon.
		The valleys of the Northern slopes of the Pyrenees, still directly under the influence of the last glaciers, are abandonned by men for the Cantabric coast which benefits of a milder climate, owing to the proximity of the sea.
		The Middle Magdalenian era (from 14 500 to 13 000) sees the development of the conquest and mastery of the territory.
	www.culture.gouv.fr /culture/app/eng/parcours.htm (615 words)

	origin decorative art
		The most beautiful tools are the propellers of the Magdalenian, that are authentic sculptures, and true works of art.
		It would have to be succeeded in to identify more civilizations, that are evolued in parallel, and that have their origins in the Acheulean.
		A third civilization of the time of the Magdalenians, dated 14.000 years, is that one of El Juyo (Santander, Spain) that has given a bi-faced zooanthropomorphic lithic sculpture, completely different for cultural tradition from the others identified in France.
	www.paleolithicartmagazine.org /pagina64.html (4451 words)

	Grotte Chauvet Archaeologically Dated - Main Page
		The red one is characterized by signs like dots, handprints, bracket- or breast-like signs etc. and static animal silhouettes, the fl one by other types of signs and species of animals, by naturalism and sometimes by powerful movement.
		It is exactly comparable to the bestiary of Lascaux, dated by good reasons to Final Solutrean and Early Magdalenian, and to a smaller degree to the engravings of Paraplló Cave of the same period.
		Figure 10:Horses of Grotte Chauvet and horses of Late Solutrean and Early Magdalenian: Grotte Chauvet: Chauvet et al.
	www.uf.uni-erlangen.de /chauvet/chauvet.html (5728 words)

	Digestive Facts - Ancient Wisdom Teeth Reveal Humans' Changing Diet
		For years, it was believed that Magdalenian Girl, excavated in France in 1911, was a girl because her wisdom teeth had not erupted.
		Therefore, Field Museum scientists concluded that Magdalenian Girl was actually a 25- to 35-year-old woman.
		Magdalenian Girl will be placed on permanent display as part of Evolving Planet, a new Field Museum exhibit depicting the story of life on Earth.
	www.digestivefacts.com /ms/news/531412/main.html (405 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Unusual findings in Magdalenian site
		The site is dated back to 15,500 BCE, in the early Magdalenian period but further work is being done in superior levels that also show similar uncommon remains, yet to be fully studied.
		The site is threatened by a stonequarry and, in principle, this excavation was a rescue operation, yet after realizing the uniqueness and importance of the site it seems that the authorities are going to intervene and prevent the quarry from destroying it.
		They surely didn't came from afar, as the core of Magdalenian culture is in Les Ezyes (Dordogne), where Aurignacian evolved locally into Magdalenian in the 21,000-17,000 BCE period.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5928&PN=1 (576 words)

	(old typology of the art) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the first two tipologies of the sculpture of the lower and middle Paleolithic (Gaietto 1974, 1982), it was followed the use of the official science, however, putting in evidence (1982) that there were types of art with different traditions, staying together in different territories.
		The sculpture of El Juyo, therefore, is contemporary to the zoomorphic magdalenian cave paintings, but it is not magdalenian, and I have classified it in the newtonian civilization, of which later on I will give the definition.
		The magdalenian Civilization and the newtonian Civilization, 14.000 years ago, had two different traditions in the artistic application (the first, the painting; the second, the sculpture), in the represented subjects, and, consequently also in the religion; two traditions that are continued until today.
	www.museoorigini.it /pagina39.html (367 words)

	UFO Area - Jewel of the Magdalenian Period Discovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Berria, 4 October 2005 -- A necklace and pendants made 15,500 years ago have been discovered in the Praile I cave; it is the most important Upper Paleolithic find in the Basque Country in recent years.
		A Magdalenian treasure of the Upper Paleolithic has lain hidden for the last 15,500 years in the Praile I cave in Deba (Gipuzkoa).
		The Praile I cave was discovered in 1983 by Mikel Sasieta and Juan Arruabarrena, members of the Munibe group of Azkoitia (Gipuzkoa), and is one of the Paleolithic’s most significant archeological clusters.
	www.ufoarea.com /aas_jewel.html (224 words)

	Pottery - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Pottery found in the Japanese islands has been dated, by uncalibrated radiocarbon dating, to around the 11th millennium BC, in the Japanese Palaeolithic at the beginning of the Jomon period.
		In Europe, burnt clay was already known in the late Palaeolithic (Magdalenian) and was used for female figurines, like the "Venus" of Dolni Vestonice, as well as figures of animals.
		In Palestine, Syria, and south-eastern Turkey, the earliest finds of clay pots date from Neolithic times, around the 8th millennium BC (fl burnished ware).
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/o/t/Pottery.html (2757 words)

	The Pont-d’Arc Venus – Aurignacian, Gravettian or Magdalenian
		If we accept that the fl paintings of Chauvet Cave are of Magdalenian origin as we have maintained since 1995, all problems are solved without any difficulties: there exist some representations of women presenting their sexuality which are nearly identical and well-dated to the Magdalenian:
		It seems to be a clear hint to the Magdalenian age of the composition in the Chauvet Cave.
		If we do not trust blindly in the results of radiocarbon and AMS dates and do not close our eyes to obvious parallels between the art of Magdalenian and the fl series of Chauvet Cave we are forced to insist that the venus of Pont-d’Arc is a Magdalenian drawing.
	www.uf.uni-erlangen.de /chauvet/chauvetvenus.htm (993 words)

	Dramatic story of the Glozel Tablets controversy
		A large number of inscribed clay tablets (along with some clay bricks, pottery, and stone axes of Magdalenian extraction) had been unearthed in a field by a 16-year-old French lad by the name of Emile Fradin.
		Writing on the tablets was similar to Phoenician, and the pottery incised with pictures of reindeer and panthers, both of which had been extinct in Europe for 10,000-12,000 years.
		Moreover, the agreement between the Magdalenian artifacts and the depiction of Ice Age animals favor the antiquity of the find.
	www.atlantisquest.com /glozel.html (960 words)

	Magdalenian - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Magdalenian" at HighBeam.
		Bois Laiterie Cave and the Magdalenian of Belgium.
		Perforated Homalopoma sanguineum from Tito Bustillo (Asturias): mobility of Magdalenian groups in northern Spain.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-magdlnian.html (187 words)

	conférences art prehistorique pyrenees version anglaise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This major site of the Magdalenian period encloses the famous anthropomorphic figure of the « Sorcerer » in the Trois-Frères cave, the two clay bisons of the Tuc d’Audubert cave and numerous traces left by prehistoric men.
		Alfonso Moure-Romanillo, professor of Prehistory at Santander University mentions the Magdalenian art from the Spanish viewpoint.
		He provides information on recent archaeological discoveries on the Cantabric coast, a main area for understanding the Magdalenian art of the Pyrenees.
	www.culture.gouv.fr /culture/app/eng/conferen.htm (223 words)

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