Anthropologists Discover 38,000 Year-Old Engraving On A Limestone Slab

[Judi Lynn]

Anthropologists Discover 38,000 Year-Old Engraving On A Limestone Slab
28 January 2017, 6:43 am EST By Andrew Norman Tech Times




An international team of anthropologists has uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image, above, in a southwestern French rockshelter—a finding that marks some of the earliest known graphic imagery found in Western Eurasia and offers insights into the nature of modern humans during this period. The limestone slab engraved with image of an aurochs, or extinct wild cow, was discovered at Abri Blanchard in 201 ( Musée national de Préhistoire collections - photo MNP - Ph. Jugie )

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The remarkable discovery was made in a rockshelter located in the southwest of France. This will help is assessing nature of human beings dwelling in that period. A rockshelter is a shallow opening quite similar to a cave at the base of a bluff or cliff. Sometimes it is also referred as crepuscular cave, rockhouse, abri and a bluff shelter.

This engraving is one of the oldest hand etched pictures found in Western Eurasia. Engraving is a practice of decorating a hard and flat surface by cutting grooves into it.

"The discovery sheds new light on regional patterning of art and ornamentation across Europe at a time when the first modern humans to enter Europe dispersed westward and northward across the continent," says Randall White an anthropologist from New York University, who was also the leader of the team that conducted the excavation work in Vézère Valley, France.

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http://www.techtimes.com/articles/194876/20170128/anthropologists-discover-38-000-year-old-engraving-on-a-limestone-slab.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. Anthropologists uncover art by (really) old masters

Anthropologists uncover art by (really) old masters
38,000 year-old engravings discovered
Date:
January 27, 2017
Source:
New York University


An international team of anthropologists has uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image in a southwestern French rockshelter -- a finding that marks some of the earliest known graphic imagery found in Western Eurasia and offers insights into the nature of modern humans during this period.

"The discovery sheds new light on regional patterning of art and ornamentation across Europe at a time when the first modern humans to enter Europe dispersed westward and northward across the continent," explains NYU anthropologist Randall White, who led the excavation in France's Vézère Valley.

The findings, which appear in the journal Quaternary International, center on the early modern humans' Aurignacian culture, which existed from approximately 43,000 to 33,000 years ago.

Abri Blanchard, the French site of the recently uncovered engraving, a slab bearing a complex image of an aurochs, or wild cow, surrounded by rows of dots, was previously excavated in the early 20th century. White and his team members began their methodical exploration of remaining deposits at the site in 2011, with the discovery occurring in 2012.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170127112921.htm

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