Conard, "Testing models for the beginnings of the
Aurignacian and the advent of figurative art and music: The radiocarbon chronology of Geissenklosterle", Journal of Human Evolution, Vol.
Based on further analyses presented in Honolulu at the 2013 annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Tostevin suspects Middle Eastern humans or Neandertals made triangular stone darts for spear-throwers that for some reason later got replaced by rectangular
Aurignacian stone darts.
"Early
Aurignacian humans functioned, more or less, like humans today," explained New York University anthropology professor Randall White, one of the study's co-authors.
They focus on the Early Upper Palaeolithic, encompass a wide region within Central Eastern Europe, and concentrate on the early phases of the
Aurignacian and the transition to the Gravettian.
Aurignacian lithic economy and early modem human mobility: new perspectives from classic sites in the Vezere valley of France.
(14.) Conard NJ "A female figurine from the basal
Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany." Nature 2009; 459: 248-252.
During this interval, the modern-aspect humans developed a distinctive Upper Paleolithic variant technology termed the
Aurignacian. (31) After about 60,000 BP, anatomically modern humans with
Aurignacian technology moved into Europe and displaced the Neanderthals there.
We can now conclude that music played an important role in
Aurignacian life in the Ach and Lone valleys, commented Nicholas Conard, a professor at the University of Tubingen and lead author of the study.
(White notes that "Experiments conducted with elephant ivory at New York University [NYU], using faithful replicas of
Aurignacian tool-forms, suggest an average time per basket-shaped bead of well in excess of an hour" [554].) Art for the peoples of the early Upper Paleolithic had nothing to do with bare-breasted senoritas couched coyly against backgrounds of black velvet: Their art, as the anthropologist David Stout has argued about the art of modern "primitives," was intended, not to push the "pleasure buttons" (Pinker, How 525), but most probably to evoke awe.
Thou art that." Blowing horse head = vulva, thus: a blowing horse head vulva, "Convulsive beauty will be veiled-erotic, fixed-exploding, magic-circumstantial or it will not be." The exploding and the fixed at 30,000 B.P., the
Aurignacian "hydrogen jukebox."
One archaeologist, Yanik Le Guillou, has remarked on the visual association between the work of bears and that of
Aurignacian people: "It is interesting to note," he says simply, "the systematic connection of animal clawmarks and engravings, as if the former had attracted the latter." In one location, out of sight from the prepared pathway, are finely engraved lines that "could," he says, if included with clawmarks on which they've been superimposed, "make the shape of a mammoth." This seems to me a fascinating variation on a common paleolithic practice: to follow the pre-existent line, or crack, or bulge, and with paint or blade, to complete whatever is already, incipiently, present.