MP Gallery - Markings, Signs, Graphemes; x) arcysurcurfossilpyrit

Example of exotics (gems, crystals and fossils). The collection of exotic objects continues from the EP, such as at:

• Le Moustier, Les Merveilles and Spy; rock crystals in implements
• Grotte de l'Hyene, Arcy-sur-Cure, layer 15; Chatelperronian, 35-34,000 BP; iron pyrite cluster, fossil crinoid (Leroi-Gourhan 1967,39)
• Skhul and Qafzeh MP; Glycymeris shells (not edible species) (Bar-Yosef, O. 1997. Symbolic expressions in later prehistory of the Levant: Why are they so few? In M. Conkey, O. Soffer, D. Stratmann & N. G. Jablonski (eds.) Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, pp.161-171.

Objects below from Arcy-sur-Cure.

Illustration © (not sure who).