[Bonetools] baguette demi-ronde

[Marina Evora]

Dear Alice,

In my opinion this artifact is not a pre-form of a projectile point, it is 
one half of a projectile point that together with another similar one would 
form a specific point - baguette demi-ronde - but it could be a magdalenian 
artifact and not a solutrean.

Lapa da Rainha is an old excavation site and  has stratigraphy problems, it 
only has two radiocarbon dates: 20.300 +- 330BP (layer 5) and 25.580 / +1820 
/ - 1490BP (layer 4). The 4th layer is more recent than the 5th one, but the 
C14 dates are inverted, and there are other 3 layers more recent then the 
4th that have no C14 dates. So this artifact could have been found in a 
mixed sediment not noticed or reported at the time. That is why I think 
there is a chance it could be a magdalenian artifact.

Also Dr. J-M Pétillon posted a msg suggesting it could be magdalenian and 
with parallels very similar to the portuguese one.

Best,
Marina



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> Dear Marina,
>       If I understand your terminology, you think this is an unfinished 
> object?
> I know absolutely nothing about Upper Paleolithic bone tool technology but
> could this be a pre-form for some kind of projectile point?
>
> Best,
> Alice
>
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