The earliest recorded case of impacted wisdom teeth belongs to the renowned "Magdalenian Girl," a nearly complete 13,000- to 15,000-year-old skeleton excavated in France in 1911and acquired by The ...

Although the Magdalenian in much of north-west Europe is commonly characterised as the period of the ‘reindeer hunters’ this is unlikely to have been the case in Iberia. Other lines of evidence showed ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The category of "animal species" is at the heart of traditional interpretations of Palaeolithic art. In this context, animal depictions have ...

IN continuation of the exploration of the palaeolithic cave of Isturitz (Basses Pyrenees) by Dr. R. de Saint-Perier, of which the Magdalenian levels in the Hall of St. Martin have already been ...

This woman who has everyone so excited, where is her head? “It's in my Subaru Forester, riding in the back seat with the seat belt,” says anthropologist JP Brown, conservator for Chicago's Field ...

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Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...

IN 1930, Dr. A. Cheynier described a newly-discovered industry of Early Magdalenian age, located at Badegoule in the valley of the Vézère, characterised by a large number of end- and side-scrapers ...

A conch shell found in a cave used by the Magdalenian people of the late Upper Palaeolithic was originally thought to be a cup, but a new analysis suggests they used it as a kind of horn. That would ...

A recent study on the funerary practices of early humans during the Magdalenian period in Europe suggests that cannibalism may have been a deliberate cultural practice rather than driven by survival ...

Prehistoric people who lived around 15,000 years ago likely used firelight to animate their artwork and enhance their storytelling, according to a study published last week. Researchers from the ...

British Museum Quarterly is a scholarly journal published by the British Museum from 1926-1973. It is a journal dealing with recent British Museum acquisitions and research concerning the Museum's ...