Engineered ‘landmarks’ associated with Late Paleolithic engraved shelters

Thiry, Médard; Milnes, Anthony

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104490

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104490

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Engineered ‘landmarks’ associated with Late Paleolithic engraved shelters

Médard Thiry,

Anthony Milnes

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Palaeolithic Map Engraved for Staging Water Flows in a Paris Basin Shelter

Thiry,

Milnes

2024

Oxford J Archaeology

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SummaryThe Ségognole 3 shelter lies within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in a lag deposit in the Paris Basin. It displays a female sexual configuration associated with a horse engraving, stylistically attributed to the Upper Palaeolithic. Recent studies have demonstrated that modifications to the natural features of the shelter had been undertaken to cause water to flow through what is seen as the vulva. New investigations reported here describe additional modifications to natural features in the shelter to direct rainwater infiltration to a network of channels engraved onto the shelter floor to form a functioning representation of watercourses. The carved motifs and their relationship with natural features in the sandstone of the shelter can be compared with major geomorphological features in the surrounding landscape. The engraved floor is not quite a map but more like a model in miniature of the surrounding landscape, potentially a world‐first 3D‐model of a Palaeolithic territory.

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Palaeolithic Map Engraved for Staging Water Flows in a Paris Basin Shelter

Thiry,

Milnes

2024

Oxford J Archaeology

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Engineered ‘landmarks’ associated with Late Paleolithic engraved shelters

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Palaeolithic Map Engraved for Staging Water Flows in a Paris Basin Shelter

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