Jörg Orschiedt, Stefan K. Kozłowski, Marta Polowicz-Bobak, Darek Bobak, Tim Schüler & Thomas Terberger
Human remains from the Magdalenian of Maszycka cave – a new approach
Only a very limited number of human remains are known from the Magdalenian of Central Europe. The
burial of Mittlere Klause is dated well before the Magdalenian (c. 18.500 BP) and AMS- dates have assigned
the double burial of Bonn-Oberkassel to the transitional period of the early Federmessergruppen (c. 12.200
to 11.600 BP). The neonatus from Wilczyce in Poland found underneath a dwelling structure of a camp site
(OxA-16729: 12.870 ±60 BP), is the only possible Magdalenian inhumation grave.
Scattered human bones sometimes with traces of manipulation (Brillenhöhle: c. 12.500 BP; Burghöhle
Dietfurt: c. 12.200 BP) probably belong to secondary burials and indicate a complex treatment of human
bodies during the Late Magdalenian. In this context human remains from Maszycka cave in southern Poland
are of outstanding importance. Bones of a minimum of 9 individuals were detected by early eld work in
the late 19th century and later by St. K. Kozłowski in the 1960s. Results of an ongoing re-investigation of
the material are presented including the discussion of possible traces of manipulation. It is becoming
increasingly clear that Maszycka cave provides the most important record of Magdalenian human remains
of Central Europe reliably dated to c. 16.400 to 16.000 calBC (c. 15.000 BP).
References:
Irish, J. l. D., Bratlund, B., Schild, R., Kolstrup, E., Królik, H., Mańka, D. and Boroń, T.: A late Magdalenian
perinatal human skeleton from Wilczyce, Poland. Journal of Human Evolution 55, 2008, 736-740.
Kozłowski, S.K., Polowicz-Bobak, M., Bobak, D., Terberger, T.: New information from Maszycka cave,
southern Poland and the late glacial recolonization of Central Europe. Quaternary International, in
press.
Street, M., Terberger, T., Orschiedt, J.: A critical review of the German Palaeolithic hominin record. Journal
of Human Evolution 51, 2006, 551-579.
Andreas Pastoors and Gerd-C. Weniger
The Wendel collection. A photo library of franco-cantabrian cave art in the Neanderthal Museum.
(Mettmann)
From 1964 up to his death in 1980 Heinrich Wendel was the head of setting at the Deutsche Oper in Düs-
seldorf and one of Germany’s most famous stage designers. The designing of space via light and projection
art had a major part in his creative work. In this connection he travelled the franco-cantabrian region sev-
eral times between 1964 and 1970, in search of inspiration for his work from prehistoric cave art.
All the time he proceeded in a highly professional way and worked with scientic precision following a uni-
form conception. He also took pictures in the non-public areas of the caves. In course of time he generated
an extensive photo library of about 3000 pictures. This photo library not only documents the state of pres-
ervation of the cave art in about 50 caves but also shows cave art from the perspective of the stage de-
signer: Cave art ’mise en scène‘ by transforming a natural space into architecture, into a stage.
More than 20 years after Heinrich Wendel’s death this photo library was endowed on the Neanderthal
Museum for scientic revision and conservation.
Since 2012 the major part of the Wendel Collection is now accessible in the NESPOS Pleistocene database.
Jean-Marc Pétillon, Sylvain Ducasse
From the Badegoulian to the Magdalenian in the French Southwest: new perspectives in antler-
working techniques
Throughout most of the European Upper Paleolithic, antler splinters, used as blanks for several tool types
(especially projectile points), were manufactured using the groove and splinter technique (GST). The Ba-
degoulian, however, appears as an interruption in this continuum: according to the original denition of this
post-Solutrean, pre-Magdalenian archeological culture, one of its distinctive features is the absence of the
GST and the manufacture of antler blanks by knapping only. However, this conception has been recently
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