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Painted Pebbles
Prehistoric painted pebbles are found from two unrelated cultures in Europe: * The Epipalaeolithic Azilian (sometimes called the "Painted Pebble culture") of north Spain and southern France, some 14,000 to 10,000 years ago *Pictish painted pebbles Painted pebbles are a class of Early Medieval artifact found in northern Scotland dating from the first millennium CE. Appearance They are small rounded beach pebbles made of quartzite, which have been painted with simple designs in a dye whi ... from north-east Scotland, some 1500 years ago {{Disambiguation Archaeological artifacts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictish Painted Pebbles
Painted pebbles are a class of Early Medieval artifact found in northern Scotland dating from the first millennium CE. Appearance They are small rounded beach pebbles made of quartzite, which have been painted with simple designs in a dye which is now dark brown in colour. The size varies from to . It has not proven possible to analyse the dye itself from the stains that remain. The motifs are carefully executed and the most common are dots and wavy lines. Other motifs are small circles, pentacles, crescents and triangles, showing strong relationships with the Pictish symbol stone motifs. Experimental archaeology suggests that the designs were likely to have been painted with peat tar. Distribution To date, 55 painted pebbles have been found. 11 of these were found in Caithness, 5 in Orkney and 27 in Shetland. Most have come from broch sites which have been shown to have had an extensive post-broch occupation. An ogham-inscribed spindle-whorl was associated with one fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azilian
The Azilian is a Mesolithic industry of the Franco-Cantabrian region of northern Spain and Southern France. It dates approximately 10,000–12,500 years ago. Diagnostic artifacts from the culture include projectile points (microliths with rounded retouched backs), crude flat bone harpoons and pebbles with abstract decoration. The latter were first found in the River Arize at the type-site for the culture, the ''Grotte du Mas d'Azil'' at Le Mas-d'Azil in the French Pyrenees (illustrated, now with a modern road running through it). These are the main type of Azilian art, showing a great reduction in scale and complexity from the Magdalenian Art of the Upper Palaeolithic. The industry can be classified as part of the Epipaleolithic or the Mesolithic periods, or of both. Archaeologists think the Azilian represents the tail end of the Magdalenian as the warming climate brought about changes in human behaviour in the area. The effects of melting ice sheets would have diminished t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
