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mirtocomune.bsky.social
Unknown - Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave, Upper Palaeolitic.
July 8, 2026 at 9:09 PM
sonja-grimm.bsky.social
If you are wondering who I am, a short intro: Focusing on lithics & spatial analysis in MA, I moved to chronology, palaeo-climatic & -environmental reconstruction coupled with transformation in material culture in my PhD & think about resilience since. From the start I'm into the Late #Palaeolitic.
November 16, 2024 at 3:23 PM
amjvanbaelen.bsky.social
With its small bifaces also a very interesting parallel for the nearby 🇧🇪 Middle #Palaeolitic site of Oosthoven-Heieinde
hanshuisman.bsky.social Hans Huisman @hanshuisman.bsky.social · Dec 17
Neanderthal site (surface finds of worked stone) on the shore of a thaw lake (dark grey) and sand dune (light grey) visible in GPR image. Esbeek, NL. Report came out last week.
December 17, 2024 at 8:25 PM
kendrawcandraw.bsky.social
Thinking about how art has always been with us and will always be with us
Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says Research on Dordogne cave art shows children learned to finger-paint in palaeolitic age, approximately 13,000 years ago and also if we can just: "Some of the children's flutings are high up on walls and on the ceilings, so they must have been held up to make them or have been sitting on someone's shoulders,* said Cooney. Flutings by the two-year-old suggest the child's hand was guided by an adult. Onfim left seventeen known birch bark items. Twelve of those have illustrations, five only text. One of the drawings features a knight on a horse, with Onfim's name written next to him, stabbing someone on the ground with a lance, with scholars speculating that Onfim pictured himself as the knight. The writings are clearly learning exercises: Onfim practiced by writing out the alphabet, repeating syllables, and writing psalms—texts that were presumably familiar to him.[8] His writing includes phrases such as "Lord, help your servant Onfim" and fragments from Psalms 6:2 and 27:3.[9] Most of Onfim's writing consists of citations from the Book of Psalms.[10] Onfim's illustrations include pictures of knights, horses, arrows, and slain enemies. One image, "a portrait of himself, disguised as a fantastic animal",[11] is found on item 199 (pictured above; it was originally the bottom of a basket made of birch bark), which contains a picture of a beast with a long neck, pointy ears, and a curly tail. The beast either has an arrow with feathers in its mouth or is spewing fire; one of the accompanying texts (the one below the box) says "I am a wild beast" (the text in the box says "Greetings from Onfim to Danilo", likely a friend or classmate of Onfim).[12] The number of fingers on the pictured people's hands varies from three to eight; Onfim had yet to learn how to count.[13]
March 31, 2024 at 12:12 AM
theneanderoll.bsky.social
My highly commended research will be appearing in the proceedings from the Unravelling the Palaeolitic conference 2024.

This is due to be published sometime in 2025.
November 23, 2024 at 2:34 PM