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Late Magdalenian feminine flint plaquettes from Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jan Fiedorczuk ,
Bodil Bratlund ,
Else Kolstrup  and
Romuald Schild
Jan Fiedorczuk
Affiliation:
1Institute of Archaeology & Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-140 Warsaw, Poland
Bodil Bratlund
Affiliation:
2Rissnavägen 57, SE-16342, Spånga, Sweden
Else Kolstrup
Affiliation:
3Physical Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, S-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
Romuald Schild
Affiliation:
1Institute of Archaeology & Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-140 Warsaw, Poland
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The remains of a hunting site dated to 15000 years ago, captured in an ice wedge, included woolly rhinoceros, horse and arctic fox. Also present were 30 flint plaquettes with curvy feminine outlines. The authors show that these unworn flint profiles can be assigned to a canon of Magdalenian art that extends over much of northern Europe.

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PolandPalaeolithicMagdalenianartfigurinesflint
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Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 311 , 1 March 2007 , pp. 97 - 105
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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