'A second female sexual figuration has been found in a cramped cavity shelter in a quartzitic sandstone megaclast at Courdimanche, some 10 km from that recently described in the La Ségognole 3 shelter at Noisy-sur-Ecole'
#UpperPalaeolithic #rockcarving
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25003827
Necklaces from southern Spain, back to the #LastGlacialMaximum (c.20 Ka)
Made of scaphopod fossils, some shells covered with #red #ochre
Traces of #indigo processing in the #UpperPalaeolithic
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-blue-indigo-year-tools-paleolithic.html
A new face for the #Gravettian
'This article describes a sculpted head with a highly detailed face and headpiece, unearthed in 2021 at the Amiens-Renancourt 1 site. Since 2013, excavations at this Gravettian site have yielded one of the largest collections of female statuettes in Europe'
#archaeology #UpperPalaeolithic #figurine #chalk
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25003189?via%3Dihub
Exciting new paper here assessing ages for #puberty onset and #menarche among #UpperPalaeolithic #huntergatherers (from Russia, Czechia, Italy).
'Our results revealed that while puberty had begun by 13.5 years of age for the majority of individuals, there was a lot of variability, with the adolescents from Arene Candide (AC1 and AC16), both aged around 16 years when they died, taking several years longer to progress through puberty than their peers. Assessing the age of menarche was challenging due to the paucity of female adolescents, but based on the available evidence, it appears to have occurred between 16 and 17 years of age. For some, full adulthood had been achieved by 17–22 years, similar to the patterns seen in modern wealthy countries and in advance of historic populations living in urbanized environments.'
#adolescence #lifehistory #humanevolution #anthropology #archaeology #burials
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842400085X?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email
Engravings of fishing nets at Gönnersdorf 15,800 years ago
'A total of 406 decorated schist slabs have been found at the site, and while these have all been extensively studied in the past, the fishy features had until now gone unnoticed. However, using advanced imaging technologies like Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), the authors of a new study were able to identify the netted creatures on eight of the plaquettes.'
Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06923-7 #archaeology #Homosapiens #europe #Middle #UpperPalaeolithic #LRJ #assemblage #DNA
#Genome analysis of two skull fragments from the Buran Kaya III site in Crimea dating to 36,000 and 37,000 years ago show proximity to later #Gravettian populations. The Gravettian culture, known for producing female figurines referred to as "Venuses," stretched between 31,000 and 23,000 years ago.
#UpperPalaeolithic #Europe #Homosapiens
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-modern-humans-europe.html
Tuff, Flint, and Hazelnuts: Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Occupation at Netherhall Road, Maryport, Cumbria #UpperPalaeolithic #mesolithic #IntArch https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue59/4/full-text.html
Article of mine almost 20 years old on the linkage of women's 🩸and game animal 🩸in #huntergatherer ethnography and #rockart from S/E #Africa and #UpperPalaeolithic
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/sites/default/files/pdf/pub_power_rockart.pdf
Another super interesting paper by #BernieTaylor on #lunar #timekeeping and animal behaviour in #UpperPalaeolithic #rockart here
https://www.academia.edu/86645040/Lunar_Timekeeping_in_Upper_Paleolithic_Cave_Art
Well done Mr Bacon -- solving the #lunar 🌙 calendar notation recording species' reproductive cycles in the #UpperPalaeolithic
Now let's link in the imagery of #womens #menstrual cyclicity and we are on our way to reconstructing the Upper Paleolithic cosmology as an 'ideology of blood' 🩸
Paper linked 👇
