Station paléolithique de la Ferrassie (Dordogne)

Sequential Incisions on a Cave Bear Bone from the Middle Paleolithic of Pešturina Cave, Serbia

“…Bones with parallel notches are relatively abundant at Mousterian sites in Western Europe such as Ermitage (Pradel and Pradel 1954), La Ferrasie (Capitán and Peyrony 1912), Le Moustier (Peyrony 1930;Langley et al 2008), La Quina (Marshack 1991;d'Errico et al 2012a), Vergisson IV (d'Errico et al 2003) Vaufrey (Vicent 1988), Unikote, La Chapelle-aux-Saints, and Marillac (Duport 1973;d'Errico 1998d'Errico , 2003d'Errico et al 2009;Zilhão 2007). Sets of notches and incisions have been identified on bone awls, points, ribs, tubes from the Châtelperonain layers of Grotte du Renne, Arcysur-Cure (d 'Errico 1998: 25;Julien et al in press).…”

Technological, elemental and colorimetric analysis of an engraved ochre fragment from the Middle Stone Age levels of Klasies River Cave 1, South Africa

“…Cases in point for the Lower Palaeolithic are the sequentially notched long bone shaft fragments from the Lower Pleistocene site of Kozarnika (Guadelli and Guadelli, 2004) and a mammoth shaft fragment from Bilzingsleben which exhibits a 'fanlike' engraved motif (Mania and Mania, 1988;Behm-Blancke, 1983;Steguweit, 1999). Among the objects found at Mousterian sites, the Tata nummulite which has a cross formed by a line perpendicularly crossing a natural crack (Vértes, 1964;Marshack, 1976), sequential incisions from Suard (Crémades, 1996), Saint Anne I (Raynal and Seguy, 1986), Vaufrey (Vicent, 1988), Oldisleben 1 (Günther, 1994), Le Moustier (Peyrony, 1930), Lartet (Debénath and Duport, 1971), Marillac (Duport, 1973), Le Petit Puymoyen, (Debénath and Duport, 1971), La Quina (Martin, 1910;Marshack, 1991), Cotencher (Dubois and Stehlin, 1933), La Ferrassie (Capitán and Peyrony, 1912;Bordes, 1969), L'Ermitage (Pradel and Pradel, 1954), Tagliente (Leonardi, 1988), Turské Mastale (Neustupny, 1948), Temnata (Crémades et al, 1995), Prolom II (Stepanchuk, 1993), Axlor (Barandiarán and García-Diez, 2007) and Vergisson IV (d' Errico et al, 2003;Soressi and d'Errico, 2007;Vandermeersch et al, 2008) are noteworthy. The only known examples from the Near East comprise a cortex of a flint flake engraved with a set of concentric lines from Quneitra (Goren-Inbar, 1990;Marshack, 1996;d'Errico et al, 2003) in a level dated to ca.…”

Variability and Function among Gravette Points from Southwestern France

“…Location Movius, 1958-1964Peyrony & Capitan, 1896-1929Peyrony & Capitan, 1902Lalanne, 1908-1914Peyrony, 1912-1913Lacorre, 1930-1939, 1945-1949Coste & Tabanou, 1880s Jude & Arambourou, 1948-1955Hauser, before 1914Bourion, 1920-1921 Coiffard, before 1900 334). Unless otherwise specified, the term "Gravette point" refers here inclusively to Types 48-50.…”

“…a) Musee National de Prehistoire, Les Eyzies; (b) Musee d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux; (c) Musee des Antiquites Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye; (d) Musee de Brantdme; (e) Institut de Paleontologie Humaine, Paris; (0 Institut du Quaternaire, University de Bordeaux I. Sources:(1)Movius, ed., 1975; (2)Bricker 1973; (3)David 1984; (4) Peyrony 1934; (5)Capitan and Peyrony 1912; (6) Lalanne and Bouyssonie 1941-1946; (7) de Sonneville-Bordes 1960; (8) Peyrony 1939; (9) Lacorre 1960; (10) Jude and Arambourou 1964; (11)Bouyssonie 1948; (12) Bouyssonie and de Sonneville-Bordes 1957; (13) Bordes and Labrot 1967. …”