EditorialHoxne handaxe, Lower Palaeolithic, about 400,000 years ago, from Hoxne, Suffolk, England. This handaxe has been carefully flaked on both faces to produce a pointed form. The two sharp cutting edges mean that the handaxe could have been used as a genera...
EditorialBuffalo and mare. Stone relief from Le Roc-de-Sens, Charents, France. Superior Solutrean, end of Early Stone Age (Palaeolithic). Size 160 x 150 cm.
EditorialPerforated baton with horse and fish engravings, Late Magdalenian, about 12,500 years old. Antler batons first appeared in the early Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe about 35,000 years ago. By the Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian period, about 1...
EditorialSpain. Upper Palaeolithic. Magdalenian (16000-15000). Scapula depicting a figure of a female deer. Made with a flint burin. From El Castillo Cave, Cantabria. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid.
EditorialPerforated baton with horse and fish engravings, Late Magdalenian, about 12,500 years old. Antler batons first appeared in the early Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe about 35,000 years ago. By the Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian period, about 1...
EditorialPerforated baton with horse and fish engravings, Late Magdalenian, about 12,500 years old. Antler batons first appeared in the early Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe about 35,000 years ago. By the Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian period, about 1...
EditorialThe walls of the cave of Magura are covered with cave-paintings showing men dancing and hunting. The rock-paintings date from various periods: late Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age.
EditorialCave of Las Chimeneas (complex of Cave of Monte Castillo). Upper Palaeolithic (22.000 -17000) BP. Soloutrean. Deer. Puente Viesgo. Cantabria, Spain.
EditorialSpain. Upper Palaeolithic. Magdalenian (16000-15000). Scapula depicting a figure of a female deer. Made with a flint burin. From El Castillo Cave, Cantabria. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid.
EditorialSaddle quern-stone used for grinding corn. (Quern-stones are a pair of stone tools for hand grinding a wide variety of materials. The lower, stationary, stone is called a quern, whilst the upper, mobile, stone is called a handstone.) Palaeolithic stone age.
EditorialDecorated bone pin, Early Aurignacian period, about 34,000 years old. Deliberately made jewellery is unknown in Old Stone Age sites in Europe before the start of the Upper Palaeolithic. Some of the oldest known pieces came from the Abri Lartet, a shelt...
EditorialBattling rams. Stone relief from Le Roc-de-Sens, Charente, France. Superior Solutrean, end of Early Stone Age (Palaeolithic). Size 100 x 50 cm.