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The Aurignacian (/ ɔːr ɪ ɡ ˈ n eɪ ʃ ən /) is an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic associated with Early European modern humans (EEMH) lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago.
Louis Meroc wrote in 1963: "The site of Aurignac 2 was inhabited before the collapse of the first cave, which was certainly only a small appendage of a much larger set of shelters. Based on the current state of knowledge, we assume, that the caves of Aurignac have, apart from the Aurignacian settlers, been unknown to later Paleolithic populations."
The Levantine Aurignacian (35,000-29,000 BP, calibrated, 32,000-26,000 BP, non-calibrated) [6] is an Upper Paleolithic culture of the Near-Eastern Levant that evolved from the Emiran culture. [6] It was named so because of the similarity of stone tools with the Aurignacian culture in Europe. [ 6 ]
Cro-Magnon 1 (Musée de l'Homme, Paris) Two views of Cro-Magnon 2 (1875) [7]In 1868, workmen found animal bones, flint tools, and human skulls in the rock shelter. French geologist Louis Lartet was called for excavations, and found the partial skeletons of four prehistoric adults and one infant, along with perforated shells used as ornaments, an object made from ivory, and worked reindeer antler.
View history; Tools. Tools. move ... Aurignacian (35–29 ka ... Volume 4 of the Portuguese Magazine of Archaeology from 2001 examined a Solutrean female individual ...
The open-air site Breitenbach is located at the northern boundary of the Aurignacian oikumene, from which only few sites are currently known.It is also one of the few Aurignacian open-air sites known from Central Europe – knowledge about modern human spatial behaviour and subsistence practices during the Aurignacian derives primarily from cave sites.
Articles relating to the Aurignacian, an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic which is associated with Early European modern humans (EEMH), lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago. Pages in category "Aurignacian"
Articles relating to the Levantine Aurignacian (35,000-29,000 BP), an Upper Paleolithic culture of the Near-Eastern Levant that evolved from the Emiran culture. It was named so because of the similarity of its stone tools with the Aurignacian culture in Europe.