Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7439777 | L'Anthropologie | 2018 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
The Upper Palaeolithic material made from mammoth ivory comprises many hunting weapons, mostly spear points and a few big hand spears, mainly from Eastern Europe notably Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia⦠Two objects stand out through their uniqueness. The first one is a fragment of a spearthrower, the only one made in ivory, decorated in semi round, in the shape of a young bovid, probably a bison. It dates to the Middle Magdalenian and comes from the La Madeleine shelter in Dordogne (France). The second one is a non-returning boomerang with a striated handle, dating to the Early Gravettian and coming from the ObÅazowa cave in Poland. Its morphology and morphometry are very like some Australian examples.
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Authors
Pierre Cattelain,