15000Y.O: EUROPEAN PALAEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN FLINT BURIN

Wonderful flint angle burin from the
European Palaeolithic Magdalenian Culture, dating around 13000 bc.
Late Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities occupying much of northern and western Europe during the period 16000–10000 bc. The classic Magdalenian is concentrated in southern France and northern Spain, but it can also be recognized extending northwards into Britain and eastwards into the North European Plain in Germany, Poland, and as far as the Sudost River in Russia. The name is taken from the type-site rock-shelter of La Madeleine in the Dordogne Valley of southwest France. The Magdalenian stone industry is characterized by small geometrically shaped implements, especially triangles and semilunar blades, that were probably set into bone or antler handles for use, burins, scrapers, borers, backed bladelets, and shouldered and leaf-shaped projectile points. Bone was used extensively to make wedges, adzes, hammers, spear heads with link shafts, barbed points and harpoons, eyed needles, and jewellery. Their economy was based on reindeer hunting and fishing, and there is evidence of occupied caves as well as open sites. Some of the finest cave art in France and northern Spain can be attributed to these communities, as can a great many decorated bone and ivory pieces.
The Magdalenian followed the Solutrean and Aurignacian
and was succeeded by the simplified Azilian.
Magdalenian culture disappeared as the cool, near-glacial climate
of the late Devensian Stage warmed and the animal herds
the communities depended upon became scarce.
The length of this terrific white blue patinated flint burin is 52 mms.
Provenance is an old collection.
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this wonderful Middle European artifact.
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