Bone Pendant with Geometric Decoration Body personal ornaments Saint-Marcel type, Indre Magdalenian,21 000 to 14 000 years The pendants [...] often have geometric or realistic decorations that correspond to portable art themes… Y. Taborin, A. Leroi-Gourhan, Dictionnaire de la Préhistoire, P.U.F, Paris, 1988 Commentary : It is only from the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic that personal ornaments begin to play a significant role in prehistoric societies. Most of pendants are decorated with geometric motifs. The Saint Marcel pendant is adorned with concentric circles, connected semicircles and regularly spaced incisions. These graphic elements are found in similar forms at other sites and express a set of symbolic codes shared among different hunter-gatherer communities. In the Magdalanian, pendants with geometric motifs are cultural markers that indicate social status or kinship. Intensive traces of use and reuse can result from transmission between individuals, groups or generations. Technical informations Length: 05:54 Resolution : Full HD / 1920x1080 Video format : 16 / 9 Précédent Suivant
