tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post8811833868388735242..comments2024-03-28T23:22:41.774-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Aurignacian artMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-67390562620017921702012-04-05T20:58:28.680-05:002012-04-05T20:58:28.680-05:00That elephant is galloping. Elephants cannot gall...That elephant is galloping. Elephants cannot gallop in our present world...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-20404616876249889872011-06-15T13:20:28.771-05:002011-06-15T13:20:28.771-05:00From a 2006 article on livescience.com:
The troub...From a 2006 article on livescience.com:<br /><br />The trouble is that this trend leaves "a great big hole" in the fossil record when it comes to the early Aurignacian, Hawks said. The only group in Europe at the right time and place to have made the jewelry and tools attributed to early Aurignacian culture is the Neanderthals, he said.<br />...<br />Most likely, the later Aurignacian "was made by a population with genetic input from both Neandertals and modern humans from outside Europe, because the skeletal remains of later Aurignacian people have the features of both groups," Hawks says. "I would predict that the early Aurignacian people were actually more Neanderthal-like. Until we have skeletal remains, we won't know.<br /><br />http://www.livescience.com/743-neanderthals-humans-met.htmlSlartibartfastibastnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-29088399541279230352010-12-01T03:08:58.073-06:002010-12-01T03:08:58.073-06:00From the same time and region - oldest musical ins...From the same time and region - oldest musical instrument - article includes a sound clip (from a replica)<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105823127Dirachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15346168931079493942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-15853293986425589302010-11-30T18:17:02.900-06:002010-11-30T18:17:02.900-06:00Thank you so much for the clarification, MJ. I re...Thank you so much for the clarification, MJ. I remember as I was posting the piece being puzzled by the Neanderthal tag, because my understanding had been that Neanderthals sites have never yielded crafted material. I was in too much of a hurry (as usual) to track the history of this piece.<br /><br />And thanks as well for the link to John Hawks' blog. I have an amateur's avocational interest in archaeology -- and I note that John is a fellow Madisonian. It's a small world...Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-42163187242099101342010-11-30T17:39:19.386-06:002010-11-30T17:39:19.386-06:00I forgot to thank you for posting this photo, that...I forgot to thank you for posting this photo, that I didn't know. Great image, that I'll be using on my own classes.MJ Valentehttp://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-42242166096099516552010-11-30T17:37:20.392-06:002010-11-30T17:37:20.392-06:00In reality it's not "Neanderthal art"...In reality it's not "Neanderthal art", but "art in the Neanderthal Museum". :) This little figure (3.7 cm long) wasn't made by Neanderthals but by modern humans that lived in (nowadays modern) Germany.<br /><br />Although Neanderthals, specially the later ones, already buried their dead (with associated rituals) and manufactured some ornaments, the kind of more developed pieces of art (like the mammoth figure in the photo) is typical of the first known “Homo sapiens sapiens” culture in Europe: the Aurignacian.<br /><br />You can find out more about this particular find in John Hawks Weblog (a great blog to follow if you are into prehistoric archaeology / paleoanthropology).<br /><br />http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/archaeology/upper/vogelherd_mammoth_sculpture_2007.htmlMJ Valentehttp://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.com