Abri Lartet bone needle
The decorated bone needle from the Abri Lartet comes from the early Aurignacien (younger Paleolithic ) and is over 34,000 years old. The Abri Lartet , named after its discoverer Édouard Lartet , is a rocky roof in the Gorge d'Enfer in the municipality of Les Eyzies in the Dordogne in France .
The decorated needle with the flattened point is unique in Western Europe.
From the tip of the smooth, slightly curved needle begins a simple decoration, notched in the middle, which extends around the needle, on one side to the needle head.
A person could have worn them in their hair or they could have held clothing together as a garment clasp. The needle is in the British Museum .
The bone needle is at the beginning of a tradition that is u. a. in the graves in the mussel piles of the islands Île Téviec and Île d'Hœdic continues Mesolithic and is documented in the Irish Neolithic in the passage tombs there . Until the Iron and Viking Ages , bone needles with and without decorations were found in many cultures, for example in Clonmacnoise in Ireland or on the Brough of Birsay in Orkney . Some of the oldest pieces come from the Abri Lartet. Perforated bone pendants with notched decoration and scraps of ivory beads making have been found here among other artifacts .
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literature
D. Peyrony: Les Abris Lartet et du Poisson à Gorge d'Enfer (Dordogne). In: L'Anthropologie. 42, 1932, pp. 241-268. ff.
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Coordinates: 44 ° 56 ′ 12 ″ N , 1 ° 0 ′ 5 ″ E