Upper Paleolithic of Romania from the Perspective of Bone and Antler Industry: Projectile Points
Upper Paleolithic of Romania from the Perspective of Bone and Antler Industry: Projectile Points

Summary/Abstract: "In the past half a century, excavations at Upper Paleolithic open-air and cave sites in Romania (approx. 32/30–24 kya BP = Aurignacian; 24–12 kya BP = Gravettian) have considerably enriched what is known about this bone and antler industry (Beldiman 1999a; Păunescu 1989; Beldiman, sous presse). Nowadays, the repertory consists of about 90 objects of various kinds: tools, weapons, pieces of portable art and adornment as well as débitage debris, etc. In these new favourable conditions it was possible to propose a repertory for this time period and to discuss the parameters of such artifacts in light of an actual methodological approach. Recently this set of data has been systematically analyzed producing the first coherent image of the problematics related to artifacts made from osseous raw materials (Beldiman 1999a)."[...]

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