European Aurignacian Ethno-Linguistic Geography

Journal of Archaeological Science
Article in Press, Corrected Proof
doi:10.1016/j.jas.2005.11.017
Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

Aurignacian ethno-linguistic geography of Europe revealed by personal
ornaments

Marian Vanhaerena, b, , and Francesco d'Erricoc, d,

Abstract. Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
. . . . The
ethnic dimension of beadwork is conveyed through the use of distinct
bead types as well as by particular combinations and arrangements on
the body of bead types shared with one or more neighbouring groups.
One would expect these variants to leave detectable traces in the
archaeological record. To explore the potential of this approach, we
recorded the occurrence of 157 bead types at 98 European Aurignacian
sites. Seriation, correspondence, and GIS analyses of this database
identify a definite cline sweeping counter-clockwise from the
Northern Plains to the Eastern Alps via Western and Southern Europe
through fourteen geographically cohesive sets of sites. The sets most
distant from each other include Aurignacian sites from the Rhône
valley, Italy, Greece and Austria . . . . We argue that this
pattern, which is not explained by chronological differences between
sites or by differences in raw material availability, reflects the
ethnolinguistic diversity of the earliest Upper Palaeolithic
populations of Europe. Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd All rights
reserved.

Possible cultural evidence for dichotomous origins of the period.


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