Archaeologists have examined the engraved limestone plaquettes excavated from Montastruc, a rockshelter site in southern France. These plaquettes are likely to have been made using stone tools by Magdalenian people, an early hunter-gatherer culture dating from between 23,000 and 14,000 years ago. The Montastruc plaquettes were incised with artistic designs around 15,000 years ago and […]
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Magdalenian Hunter-Gatherers Created Art by Firelight, Archaeologists Say
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