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SUBMITTER: Tejero JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5960287 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tejero José-Miguel JM Belfer-Cohen Anna A Bar-Yosef Ofer O Gutkin Vitaly V Rabinovich Rivka R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180430 20
The Levantine Aurignacian is a unique phenomenon in the local Upper Paleolithic sequence, showing greater similarity to the West European classic Aurignacian than to the local Levantine archaeological entities preceding and following it. Herewith we highlight another unique characteristic of this entity, namely, the presence of symbolic objects in the form of notched bones (mostly gazelle scapulae) from the Aurignacian levels of Hayonim Cave, Lower Galilee, Israel. Through both macroscopic and m ...[more]