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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> A new creativity is also seen in the exploitation of raw materials ? bone antler ivory and wood. Whilst Neanderthals sometimes used these materials they did not exploit their ‘malleability’: the new raw materials can be carved and bent into an endless variety of shapes. Quite suddenly at the Transition excavators of archaeological sites begin to find bone ivory and antler awls ‘batons beads pendants bracelets “pins’ and exquisitely carved statuettes. As the American archaeologist Randall White puts it: ‘Aurignacian body orna- mentation explodes onto the scene in southwest France during the early Aurignacian…It appears to have been complex conceptually symbolically technically and logistically right from the very beginning. In other words there was a kind of cognitive quantum leap. The techniques employed to make these objects were far from simple. For instance stone burins were used to gouge out long splinters of bone or mammoth ivory that could then be fashioned into needles and so forth. Some of these objects are remarkably fine. For example people collected fox wolf and bear teeth and then carefully bored through the roots of the teeth to make pendants and necklaces. (SP)