new years visit to my favourite magdalenian site: the petersfels in the brudertal (engen, germany). the 20 degrees we had today didn't feel very ice agey, though... 🥵

#magdalenian #paleolithic #archaeology #caves #iceage #nature #reindeerhunters

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@twitter.com: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_Palart-550

Circa 1 Human Era:
> The #Magdalenian Culture did the paintings at #Lascaux Cave. It has been suggested that the complexity of the later cave art represents an attempt by Magdalenian humans using “sympathetic magic” to cause the animals they had hunted to almost extinction or which were dying because of the end of the last ice age, to once more become abundant.

#HumanEra #calendarReform #holocene
https://www.easytimeline.org

Circa 1 Human Era: The #Magdalenian Culture disappeared as the cool, near-glacial climate warmed at the end of the Fourth (Würm) Glacial Period, and herd animals became scarce.
>Magdalenian Culture sites have been found in #France and Portugal in the west to Poland in the east.
> Use of bone and ivory for various implements, already begun in the #Solutrean epoch, increased. Bone instruments included spear-points, harpoon-heads, borers, hooks, and needles.

#HumanEra
www.easytimeline.org

RT @EvoAdapta@twitter.com

🗞️New paper!

" Interconnected Magdalenian societies as revealed by the circulation of whale bone artefacts in the Pyreneo-Cantabrian region” published in Quaternary Science Reviews 🐳

Let’s open a thread! 👇

#Archaeology #prehistory #palaeolithic #magdalenian
#FossilFriday

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EvoAdapta/status/1332302680816037889