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Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

Scientific reports, 2023-06, Vol.13 (1), p.9545-9545, Article 9545 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)
Author: Rigaud, Solange ; Rybin, Evgeny P ; Khatsenovich, Arina M ; Queffelec, Alain ; Paine, Clea H ; Gunchinsuren, Byambaa ; Talamo, Sahra ; Marchenko, Daria V ; Bolorbat, Tsedendorj ; Odsuren, Davaakhuu ; Gillam, J Christopher ; Izuho, Masami ; Fedorchenko, Alexander Yu ; Odgerel, Dashdorjgochoo ; Shelepaev, Roman ; Hublin, Jean-Jacques ; Zwyns, Nicolas
Subjects: Africa ; Archaeology ; Archaeology and Prehistory ; Europe ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Mongolia ; Paleolithic
Is Part Of: Scientific reports, 2023-06, Vol.13 (1), p.9545-9545, Article 9545
Description: Figurative depictions in art first occur ca. 50,000 years ago in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Considered by most as an advanced form of symbolic behavior, they are restricted to our species. Here, we report a piece of ornament interpreted as a phallus-like representation. It was found in a 42,000 ca.-year-old Upper Paleolithic archaeological layer at the open-air archaeological site of Tolbor-21, in Mongolia. Mineralogical, microscopic, and rugosimetric analyses points toward the allochthonous origin of the pendant and a complex functional history. Three-dimensional phallic pendants are unknown in the Paleolithic record, and this discovery predates the earliest known sexed anthropomorphic representation. It attests that hunter-gatherer communities used sex anatomical attributes as symbols at a very early stage of their dispersal in the region. The pendant was produced during a period that overlaps with age estimates for early introgression events between Homo sapiens and Denisovans, and in a region where such encounters are plausible.
Publisher: England: Nature Publishing Group
Language: English;French
Identifier: ISSN: 2045-2322
EISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36140-1
PMID: 37308668
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Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

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