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  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE
  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE
  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE
  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE
  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE
  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE
  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE
  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE
  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE
  • UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE UP024 - RARE UPPER PALEOLITHIC MAGDALENIAN BURIN ART-MAKING TOOL FROM FAMOUS FRENCH CAVE ART SITE

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    Product Description

    ID
    Flake Tool
    FOUND
    Grotte du Placard - Vilhonneur, France
    "The Placard Cave"
    AGE
    UPPER PALEOLITHIC (MAGDALENIAN):
    10,000 - 17,000 years ago
    SIZE
    2.2" long
    CONDITION
    INTACT AND COMPLETE - NO REPAIR
    OR RESTORATION. INTACT MINERAL
    DEPOSITS.
    NOTE
    A TOOL SPECIFICALLY USED TO 
    CREATE OBJECTS OF ART BY
    ENGRAVING!

    INGENIOUS DOUBLE-ENDED
    USE DESIGN!

    VERY FAMOUS CAVE ART SITE
    CLOSED AND PROTECTED SINCE 1989.
    RARE COMPLETE SPECIMENS FROM
    THE FORMER COLLECTION OF
    LOUIS FREVILLE.
    INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX - Actual Item - One Only

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    This is a RARE Magdalenian flake tool from an extremely famous prehistoric art cave in France.  It is a DOUBLE-ENDED BURIN and GRAVER made on a STRUCK BLADE.  The large pointed end is a classic Upper Paleolithic design burin type tool which is noted by its chisel-shaped cutting point. The other end features an expertly flaked small graver point.  Both tool types were used to engrave soft materials.  A tool like this would have been used to make objects of prehistoric art similar to the famous prehistoric art engravings and carvings known in antler, bone and ivory.  Not only is this tool with incredible provenance from a well-known prehistoric art cave site but the tool itself, is specifically designed to product prehistoric art objects.  The double-ended dual purpose nature of this RARE specimen further enhances its value as a fantastic and desirable Cro-Magnon tool of importance in prehistoric design and artistic creation.

    Such a tool was made by Cro-Magnon humans who once lived in this famous decorated cave site which had been earlier, occupied by Neanderthals during the Mousterian Tool phase.  An excellent and rare specimen with famous provenance, it displays traits only found on authentic specimens with mineral and sediment deposits throughout.  NO RESTORATION AND NO REPAIR.

    The Grotte du Placard or (the Placard Cave) was first discovered in 1853.  It is a very famous prehistoric cave in Charente, France bearing art made by humans over 17,000 years ago.  It is one of the most important caves housing prehistoric cave art with abstract signs (aviforms), dating back to the era of Solutrean art.  Traditionally grouped together with three other archeological sites of Franco-Cantabrian cave art, all four of the sites contain similar bird-like abstract symbols.  The other sites include Pech Merle Cave (25,000 BCE), Cougnac Cave (23,000 BCE), and Cosquer Cave (25,000 BCE).  Because Placard Cave is the only one of the four rock shelters whose rock art has been directly dated (to 17,500-18,000 BCE), the strange aviforms it contains are now known as "Placard-type signs", even though the earliest art of this type was created at Pech Merle, during the Gravettian.  

    The Grotte du Placard has been extensively excavated with more than a dozen levels dating from the Middle Paleolithic to later, higher levels, especially Magdalenian and Solutrean Periods.  The French Association for the Advancement of Science funded early excavations in 1902.  The subdivisions of the Upper Paleolithic presented by Henri Breuil the 1912 Geneva Convention are partly based on the results of excavations of the Grotte du Placard.  Excavations were also done in 1958 by Jean Roche at the request of Jean Piveteau and again, in 1987 following the discovery of a reindeer and cattle engravings and a not yet excavated gallery.  Human remains have been found in this cave including Neanderthal and mostly, Cro-Magnon.  Many bones of Homo sapiens dating from the Solutrean ( Upper Paleolithic ) have been found, including skulls fashioned into cups.  A frieze of about 5 meters long was excavated in 1990 on the walls buried in the Solutrean layer. The drawings are made by very fine incisions. Many horses, deer, ibex, deer, chamois, a saiga of cattle, aurochs and a two buffalo heads sticking out their tongues, are represented. Sieving the excavated material allowed recovery of 640 carved stones, which showed that all of the walls were engraved.  A dozen "bird-shaped" signs are also present. Painted red, they are identical to those found in the caves of Pech Merle and Cougnac. This suggests a cultural group or a common artist(s) attended these remote caves of over 150 km apart. Similar signs were found in the Cosquer cave in Marseille, 500 km away.

    No collection of Paleolithic tools would be complete without the inclusion of examples dating to the Upper Paleolithic Period.  This was an era of many of the most famous human development milestones.  In this period, the technology developing around the planet took place at slightly different times but globally, humanity was taking a huge turn for the better, and in overall unison.  A new level of tool production and craftsmanship emerged unlike ever seen before.  Modern humans first arrive on the scene and with them, they bring many new inventions - most notable is the concept of artistic expression as seen in the famous cave paintings that were only produced in this era.

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