Re: Roasted mammoth was served in 29,000 B.C. in what is today the Czech Republic
- From: Jack Linthicum <jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 06:51:00 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 5, 9:05 am, Lisbeth Andersson <lis...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:d4f5394c-9a3e-4ddb-84d7-c72f96b05cd0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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<...>> Perforated, decorative pebbles, ceramic pieces and fragments of
fired clay were also excavated. The living unit's occupants left
their fingerprints on some of the clay pieces, which they
decorated with impressions made from reindeer hair and textiles.
<...>
This part is interesting. What textiles was used at that time?
Lisbeth.
This may not totally answer your question but...
http://paleo.revues.org/index607.html
11In addition, the lithic industries are accompanied by a rich and
varied industries of organic materials. In case of the bone/ivory/
antler industry, the morphological variability suggests a multiplicity
of functions (Klíma 1997; Zelinkova 2007), but the interpretation,
including the archeological nomenclature of certain implements, is
still poorly understood. Recently, Brühl (2005) suggested that some of
the “shovel-shaped” tools may in fact be blunt bone projectiles aimed
for hunting fur animals without damaging the skins, whereas Steguweit
(2005) interpreted some of the ivory “cylinders” ar soft hammers. The
discovery of textile imprints on surface of certain ceramic fragments
may, logically, imply a variety of textile-producing functions for the
bone industry (Soffer & Adovasio 2004). However, we still lack a
systematic description and nomenclature of the bone industry in
general.
42Additional evidence is conserved as imprints on surface of the
ceramic pieces. Microscopic examinations confirmed the existence of
regular structures that are interpreted as simple textile imprints
(Adovasio et al. 2005; Kovacic et al. 2005) and animal hair.
Dematoglypic studies suggest that young people and children were
present – and active – around the ceramic production processes (Králík
& Novotny 2005). This coincides well with some of the Western European
data from painted caves, where the presence of children has also been
documented. I do not wish to suggest that children were the producers
of this art, neither of the “big” parietal art of the West nor of the
miniatures of Moravia, but it should be taken into an account that the
symbolic art production was a complex process assisted by the whole
community. And - as today - children were probably anxious to touch
everything directly.
ADOVASIO J.M., SOFFER O., HYLAND D.C. 2005 - Textiles and cordage. In:
Pavlov I – Southeast. A window into the Gravettian lifestyles. Dol.
Vest. Stud. 14, Brno, p. 432-443.
KOVACIC V., GRABMÜLLEROVÁ J., BAJZÍK, V. 2005 - Photographic evidence
of the textile imprints. In: Pavlov I – Southeast. A window into the
Gravettian lifestyles. Dol. Vest. Stud. 14, Brno, p. 444-448.
SOFFER O., ADOVASIO J.M. 2004 – Textiles and Upper Paleolithic lives.
A focus on the perishable and the invisible. In: The Gravettian along
the Danube. Dol. Vest. Stud. 11, Brno, p. 270-282.
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