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Innovative Osseous Technologies of the Early Upper Palaeolithic of the Swabian Jura – The Age of Ivory

Innovative Osseous Technologies of the Early Upper Palaeolithic of the Swabian Jura – The Age of Ivory
Author(s)
Sibylle Wolf 1, 2 ✉,
Keiko Kitagawa 1, 2, 3,
Rudolf Walter 2,
Agnes Fatz 1,
Nicholas J. Conard 1, 2, 3
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The Swabian Aurignacian is well known for its vast assemblages of functional and symbolic artefacts made from mammoth ivory. This contrasts with the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic technologies that contain sparse evidence for the manufacture and use of tools made from osseous materials. Only with the early Upper Palaeolithic did hominins begin to use ivory for a wide range of tools related to hunting and subsistence, and artefacts used in the symbolic sphere...