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Etched Mesolithic grids from a rock shelter near Boissy-aux-Cailles in the Fontainebleau Forest. Broadly speaking, the Mesolithic engravings take the form of panels of straight grooves which are often organized into grids. In fewer cases, these grooves were presented as isolated lines or formed into crosses.
The group of over 700 sites of prehistoric Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, also known as Levantine art, were collectively declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998. The sites are in the eastern part of Spain and contain rock art dating to the Upper Paleolithic or (more likely) Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age. The art ...
With the partial exception of Vučedol, the Danubian cultures, which had been so buoyant just a few centuries ago, were wiped off the map of Europe. The rest of the period was the story of a mysterious phenomenon: the Beaker people , which seemed to be of a mercantile character and to have preferred being buried according to a very specific ...
Compared to the preceding Upper Paleolithic and the following Neolithic, there is rather less surviving art from the Mesolithic. The Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin , which probably spreads across from the Upper Paleolithic, is a widespread phenomenon, much less well known than the cave-paintings of the Upper Paleolithic, with which ...
The Azilian is a Mesolithic industry of the Franco-Cantabrian region of northern Spain and Southern France.It dates approximately 10,000–12,500 years ago. [1] Diagnostic artifacts from the culture include projectile points (microliths with rounded retouched backs), crude flat bone harpoons and pebbles with abstract decoration.
Name Location Culture Period Comment Franchthi Cave: Argolis, Balkans: c. 15,000 – 9,000 BP Previously inhabited during the Upper Paleolithic, continuously inhabited into the Neolithic.
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