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    The Magdalenian culture existed from around 15,000-10,000 BC in Europe and is characterized by cave art, bone and ivory artwork, and barbed harpoons. The Magdalenians lived in semi-settled groups hunting reindeer, horses, and bison. They created stone tools, bone tools like spearheads and needles, and engaged in artistic production. Later Magdalenian art showed increasing naturalism and detail in cave engravings and polychrome cave paintings. The Magdalenian culture declined as the climate warmed and herd animals became scarce around 10,000 BC.

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    The Magdalenian culture existed from around 15,000-10,000 BC in Europe and is characterized by cave art, bone and ivory artwork, and barbed harpoons. The Magdalenians lived in semi-settled groups hunting reindeer, horses, and bison. They created stone tools, bone tools like spearheads and needles, and engaged in artistic production. Later Magdalenian art showed increasing naturalism and detail in cave engravings and polychrome cave paintings. The Magdalenian culture declined as the climate warmed and herd animals became scarce around 10,000 BC.

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    HISTORY

    • Magdalenian industry OBS dating from the upper paleolithic,


    about 15,000-10,000 B.C. And characterized by cave art,
    decorative work in bone and ivory, the marker being A barbed
    harpoon. Magdalenian culture, toolmaking industry and artistic
    tradition of upper paleolithic europe, which followed the
    solutrean industry and was succeeded by the simplified azilian;
    it represents the culmination of upper paleolithic cultural
    development in europe.
    • The magdalenians lived some 11,000 to 17,000 years ago, at A time when
    reindeer, wild horses, and bison formed large herds; the people appear to
    have lived A semisettled life surrounded by abundant food. They killed
    animals with spears, snares, and traps and lived in caves, rock shelters, or
    substantial dwellings in winter and in tents in summer. The great increase in
    art and decorative forms indicates the magdalenians had leisure time. They
    also experienced A population explosion, living in riverside villages of 400 to
    600 persons; it has been estimated that the population of france increased
    from about 15,000 persons in solutrean times to over 50,000 in magdalenian
    times. Uniface blade and three end scrapers. Stone age: magdalenian the
    rock shelter of la madeleine, near les eyzies (dordogne), is the type
    magdalenian locality.
    • This magdalenian stone tools include small geometrically shaped
    implements (E.G., Triangles, semilunar blades) probably set into bone or
    antler handles for use, burins (A sort of chisel), scrapers, borers, backed
    bladelets, and shouldered and leaf-shaped projectile points. Bone was
    used extensively to make wedges, adzes, hammers, spearheads with link
    shafts, barbed points and harpoons, eyed needles, jewelry, and hooked
    rods probably used as spear throwers. Bone tools were often engraved
    with animal images. The widespread resumption of artistic production in
    the early magdalenian period was marked at first by A return to simple
    line drawing and A retreat from the aurignacian achievements in modeling
    and polychromy.
    • Generally, coarse black drawings with little concern for detail or finish
    characterized monumental cave art in this early phase. It may be distinguished
    as part of A later school by its continuation of solutrean plastic tendencies and
    its correct draftsmanship in the treatment of feet and horns and of perspective
    in general. Later, however, as the new school consolidated itself, there was an
    increasing and striking naturalism in all the arts.
    • The small arts, already at a high level in the aurignacian era, reached a climax in
    the magdalenian period, with delicate, detailed engravings and carvings in the
    round; in engravings two or more animals were often represented together in a
    recognizable scene. The outstanding achievement of magdalenian art, however,
    was the cave engraving and polychrome painting of its late phase.
    • There was little interest in formal composition or relationships between
    figures, but the figures themselves, especially in painting, were
    remarkably beautiful, with lively realism, excellent rendering of volumes,
    subtle expressive poses, and sophisticated design. Some of the finest
    examples of this late painting are at altamira (q.V.), A cave in northern
    spain. Magdalenian culture disappeared as the cool, near-glacial climate
    warmed at the end of the fourth (würm) glacial period (c. 10,000 BC),
    and herd animals became scarce. It has been suggested that the
    complexity of the later cave art represents an attempt by magdalenian
    man using “sympathetic magic” to cause the animals to once more
    become abundant.

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