Un poignard en os humain dans le Chalcolithique Pyrénéen de Bédeilhac (Ariège)

Malvesin-Fabre, G.; Nougier, Louis-René; Robert, Romain

doi:10.3406/bspf.1953.5148

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“…78-83). The two take exactly the same stand as Malvesin-Fabre et al who had insisted that "les mutilations de Gargas sont réelles, et non pas simulées" ("Gargas mutilations are real, not simulated": [22], p. 12). This view is reiterated as late as the 1990s: "les doigts sont amputés et non pliés" ("Fingers are amputated, not folded": [51], p. 54).…”

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confidence: 82%

“…The appeal here was to ethnography from diverse places, including North America and Australia ( [22], p. 5, pp. [12][13][14].…”

Section: Mutilation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, this does not alter the fact that early interpreters-predisposed as they were to exaggerate differences between the prehistoric past and post-Enlightenment present-too readily leapt to ritual amputation to explain incomplete hands. From the outset, Malvesin-Fabre et al make us aware of their profound culture-shock, shared by other Europeans, at the prospect of voluntary maiming: among the Franco-Cantabrian caves Gargas continued to stand out as the Temple of the Hand, exhibiting the shuddering spectacle of "des mains mutilées, des mains aux nombreuses phalanges sectionées, des mains devenues de terribles moignons et dont la seule vue cause un malaise profond et indéfinissable" ( [22], p. 3; for an Australian parallel to this reaction see Dobrez,[3], p. 311).…”

Section: Mutilation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hand Traces: Technical Aspects of Positive and Negative Hand-Marking in Rock Art

Dobrez

2014

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Affordances necessary for the making of hand traces in the form of stencils and prints-primarily the availability of pigment and a suitable surface-bear on our understanding of their emergence as early exograms. Matters relating to the question of how pigment was/is applied, the placement and embellishment of images, the procurement and preparation of ochre, and the selecting and priming of surfaces, are discussed here-as well as the intriguing occurrence of variant hands. Advantage is taken of Australia's position as a zone of ongoing hand-marking practice to suggest what can be learned from ethnography. Finally, avenues for future research are proposed with a view to opening out a discussion of external information storage possibilities in relation to hand traces.

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“…The appeal here was to ethnography from diverse places, including North America and Australia ( [22], p. 5, pp. [12][13][14].…”

Section: Mutilation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hand Traces: Technical Aspects of Positive and Negative Hand-Marking in Rock Art

Dobrez

2014

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“…There is a 25 cm long dagger made of a human fibula in the cave of Bédeilhac, situated either in the Chalcolithic (Malvesin-Fabre et al, 1953) or in the early Bronze age (Guilaine, 1972). Also Guilaine in his work refers to a dagger from the Bronze age in the Tuteil Cave (Midi-Pyrénées) made out of a human ulna.…”

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Proofs of Long-Distance Relations between Central Europe and Inland Iberian Peninsula during Neolithic and Bronze Age. Evidences from the Material Culture of the Site of El Portalón (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

Ruiz¹,

Pérez-Romero²,

Carretero³

et al. 2015

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El Portalón of Cueva Mayor is one of the present-day entrances to the Cueva Mayor-Cueva del Silo karst system located in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). It is an important archaeological site with extended Holocene occupation which has been subjected to a number of excavations since the nineteen seventies. From its significant collection of bone and antler industry, for this work, we have chosen artefacts indicating local production and others evidencing contact between this part of the Iberian Peninsula and other areas of the Mediterranean Basin.Wishing to emphasise this symbiotic relationship, we have likewise presented a special collection of Neolithic Boquique pottery. The data confirm that, far from being occasional, the relationship of the groups living in the area around the Atapuerca Mountains continues unbroken for several cultural episodes.

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Un couteau aménagé dans un radius humain protohistorique découvert aux grottes de Goyet (Gesves, province de Namur, Belgique)

Toussaint¹

2005

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A tool manufactured on a human radius was discovered between 1935 and 1945 in the caves of Goyet (province of Namur, Belgium). A splinter from the artefact yielded an AMS date of 2420 ± 40 BP (OxA-8875), i.e. between 760 and 400 ВС after calibration at 1 σ and between 770 and 390 ВС at 2 σ. Such a result dates the object to the Iron Age, although the size of the standard deviation due to plateaux on the calibration curve prevents greater precision. The tool was shaped by using the left radius from an adult, perhaps male. The distal end of the bone was removed during tool preparation. On the distal part, a partial longitudinal edge is present, prepared by scraping of the palmar and dorsal surfaces and practically aligned with the prolongation of the interosseous crest, from which, however, it is easily distinguished. The lateral surface of the bone is a longitudinal back opposite the prepared edge. Unworked on the central part of the object, this back was, however, worked on the most distal part to contribute to the formation of the point. The object cannot thus be regarded as a dagger stricto sensu. In spite of the relative shortness of the worked edge, it corresponds rather to the definition of a knife. The object is typologically exceptional. On the basis of archaeological literature, it is the only sharp- pointed tool created on a radius known for the prehistoric and protohistoric periods in Europe and North Africa; the few other tools made from human long bones are typically on fibulae and, more rarely, on ulnae and humeri. These comparable tools are moreover characterized primarily by their point, which often qualified them as daggers, while the originality of the Goyet object is to associate the point with a worked edge opposed to a natural back.

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Un poignard en os humain dans le Chalcolithique Pyrénéen de Bédeilhac (Ariège)

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Hand Traces: Technical Aspects of Positive and Negative Hand-Marking in Rock Art

Hand Traces: Technical Aspects of Positive and Negative Hand-Marking in Rock Art

Proofs of Long-Distance Relations between Central Europe and Inland Iberian Peninsula during Neolithic and Bronze Age. Evidences from the Material Culture of the Site of El Portalón (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

Un couteau aménagé dans un radius humain protohistorique découvert aux grottes de Goyet (Gesves, province de Namur, Belgique)

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Un poignard en os humain dans le Chalcolithique Pyrénéen de Bédeilhac (Ariège)

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Hand Traces: Technical Aspects of Positive and Negative Hand-Marking in Rock Art

Hand Traces: Technical Aspects of Positive and Negative Hand-Marking in Rock Art

Proofs of Long-Distance Relations between Central Europe and Inland Iberian Peninsula during Neolithic and Bronze Age. Evidences from the Material Culture of the Site of El Portal&#243;n (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

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