Creswellian culture

Creswellien (English Creswellian ) is a endpaläolithische stage of culture, which was spread 12500-8000 BC in southern England and Wales. It is named after the Creswell Crags in Derbyshire, England.

Description

In the deposits of the Mother- Grundy - Parlour cave Mousterian devices were divided into three layers found, also lay a layer of leaf spitz -like devices and scrapers of the type Aurignacian, thereon a layer containing Font -Robert - character ( Gravettian ) and top of the layer of Creswellien what a piece of ivory spearhead belongs to Magdalenian art. The only later discovered cave art, whose age is estimated to be over 12,000 years includes symbols that can be interpreted as stylized representations of the female genitalia. You probably served religious rituals.

The south of England was free of ice in the final period of the last ice age and the lower by about 100 m sea level raised to the island location. Years ago, about 15,000 Magdalenienleute therefore migrated from the south into northern France, Belgium, southern England and in the North German Plain. In the North German Plain, the penknife groups Tjonger the group and in England the Creswellien were out in the Netherlands.

The Creswellien has in the inventory of finds certain similarities with the Hamburg culture and also has links to Tjonger group. All groups show impacts of the Magdalenian. Typical tools are triangle - trapezoid -segment and pen knife, knife with a buckled back, also scrapers, gravers, tines and blades with geometric severity and with one or two working edges and double row harpoons. Some pieces of bone have engravings.

Fragmentary fossil bones were found in the cave of Gough. The excavations of 1986-1987 show that human bones were mixed with animal bones. These and other modifications indicate that both humans and animals were eaten. Which, although as Ernährungskannibalismus but interprets differences in the skull treatment compared to other places ritual cannibalism set out as a potential member.