Upper Palaeolithic portable art objects in Central Germany and supra-regional parallels

Braun, Ingmar M.

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“…Rouffignac Cave, Font de Gaume, Pech-Merle, France 60 ), Upper Paleolithic Venus depicted as highly schematic women’s bodies, only represented by vague curvy profiles (i.e. Monruz Switzerland, Gönnersdorf, Nebra, Germany 61 ), or the stone bird from Lingjing represented by a simplistic small bird profile 10 .…”

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Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

Rigaud

Rybin

Khatsenovich

et al. 2023

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Figurative depictions in art first occur ca. 50,000 years ago in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Considered by most as an advanced form of symbolic behavior, they are restricted to our species. Here, we report a piece of ornament interpreted as a phallus-like representation. It was found in a 42,000 ca.-year-old Upper Paleolithic archaeological layer at the open-air archaeological site of Tolbor-21, in Mongolia. Mineralogical, microscopic, and rugosimetric analyses points toward the allochthonous origin of the pendant and a complex functional history. Three-dimensional phallic pendants are unknown in the Paleolithic record, and this discovery predates the earliest known sexed anthropomorphic representation. It attests that hunter-gatherer communities used sex anatomical attributes as symbols at a very early stage of their dispersal in the region. The pendant was produced during a period that overlaps with age estimates for early introgression events between Homo sapiens and Denisovans, and in a region where such encounters are plausible.

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Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

Rigaud

Rybin

Khatsenovich

et al. 2023

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“…93 Most importantly, the rise of the service economy has led scholars to focus their attention on the immaterial and digital "containers" that underpin global commerce today, instead of the sturdy old boxes that remind us more of the technological feats of yesteryear. 94 Instead, I conclude this chapter with a plea for the interrogation of "old twentieth century" technological devices, especially their material implications. As I have explored more elsewhere, in the last decades across the social sciences and the humanities there have been important calls to reengage with the materiality of the social world, in the wake of the critique of the fascination of our intellectual age with discourse.…”

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“Keynesian” Shipping Containers?

Quiroga-Villamarín¹

2023

The Evolution of Transnational Rule-Makers Through Crises

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Containers are the material representations of the rhizomatic movement of global capital that characterizes the post-West. They are a concrete symbol of the transnational imaginary they embody. 1At present [1992] we are living through a curious combination of the technology of the late twentieth century, the free trade of the nineteenth, and the rebirth of the sort of interstitial centres characteristic of world trade in the Middle Ages. 2

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“…apart from the Kesslerloch, this type of spear thrower is only known in Central Europe from Teufelsbrücke (fig. 3: 2) in Thuringia in Central germany [Bosinski 1982;Braun 2012;2018;Cattelain 2005;Feustel 1980;Stodiek 1993]. However, the object from Teufelsbrücke dates from the upper Magdalenian [Cattelain 2005;Stodiek 1993].…”

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The Swiss Magdalenian portable art and supra-regional parallels

Braun¹

2020

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There are about fifty Magdalenian sites known in Switzerland. Most of these sites were discovered and excavated at the end of the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century. Consequently, it is not always possible today to establish clear research contexts and dating is often based on typo-chronological statements. The Swiss Magdalenian portable art can be divided into two main groups: engravings and figurative sculptures. Engravings mostly appear on reindeer antlers, bones, and rarely on stone or jet. They are more common than figurative sculptures. The majority of engravings are on everyday objects such as perforated batons and projectile points. They are mainly signs and other ornamental motifs. In addition, there are also figurative subjects such as animals and a animal-human representation. The term “figurative sculptures” refers to partially sculptured objects, such as decorated spear thrower ends and stylized female figurines. With the exception of a musk ox head no other evident animal sculptures have been found in Switzerland. Some of the Magdalenian portable art objects found in Switzerland show supra-regional parallels with finds from other parts of Europe. The aim of this article is to present the most important Swiss finds in a broader European geographical context.

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Upper Palaeolithic portable art objects in Central Germany and supra-regional parallels

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

“Keynesian” Shipping Containers?

The Swiss Magdalenian portable art and supra-regional parallels

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