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- Title
Magdalenian Children: Projectile Points, Portable Art and Playthings.
- Authors
Langley, Michelle C.
- Abstract
Children, no doubt, were a significant component of Upper Palaeolithic societies. Despite this fact, however, serious identification and consideration of material culture which may have belonged to children - at least at one time during their use-life - have not been undertaken. This situation extends to the best represented and most intensively studied of the European Palaeolithic techno-complexes, the Magdalenian (c.21,000-14,000 cal BP), and consequently, we know very little about the children of this enigmatic people. As play, including object play, is a 'true cultural universal', we can be certain that Magdalenian children integrated objects into their games, with these playthings later incorporated into the archaeological record. Through examining ethnographic accounts of recent hunter-gatherer children and reconsidering archaeological assemblages in light of these data, this paper suggests that Magdalenian playthings probably included full-sized adult weapon tips and - more significantly - pieces of what archaeologists term 'art mobilier'.
- Subjects
MAGDALENIAN culture; HISTORY of children; CHILD psychology; PALEOLITHIC Period; MATERIAL culture
- Publication
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2018, Vol 37, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0262-5253
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ojoa.12128