A pendant manufactured with mammoth ivory decorated with holes and found in Poland is the oldest known example of jewelry ornament in Eurasia, as it dates back 41.500 years, in the early upper Paleolithic, as detailed in a study published this Thursday (25.eleven.2021) By Scientific Reports magazine.
The slope was found in 2010 in the Polish Cave of Stajnia -Sntest- together with a punch made of horse bone, according to the research team, led by the Max Planck Institute (Germany).Both objects, manufactured by Homo Sapiens, are the first known test of jewelry decoration in Eurasia and the appearance of symbolic behavior in human evolution.
Details, precision and creativity
The pendant decoration included patterns of more than fifty drilling marks in an irregular curve and two complete holes.The Hendiduras pattern, similar to that of the posterior jewels found in Europe, could represent hunting accounts (a mathematical counting system) or lunar annotations corresponding to the moon or the sun cycle.
"This piece of jewelry shows the great creativity and the extraordinary manual ability of the members of the Homo Sapiens group that occupied the site," said the co -author Wioletta Nowaczewska, from the University of Wrocław (Poland).
The thickness of the plate is about 3.7 millimeters, demonstrating "an amazing precision in carving the perforations and the two holes to carry it," he added.
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An abandoned object
The research team considers the possibility that the pendant manufactured with mammoth ivory was able.
The dating of this particular object, thanks to the most recent methodological advances of the radiocarbon, places it 41.500 years, when the first Homo Sapiens dispersions occurred in Europe.
Homo Sapiens did go through Poland
In the hypothesis about the first expansion of Homo Sapiens in Europe, the territory of Poland usually is excluded, which suggests that it remained desert for several millennia after the disappearance of the Neanderthals.
However, the ages of the ivory pendant and the bone punch found in the Stajnia cave "finally demonstrate that the dispersion of Homo Sapiens in Poland took place as soon as in central and western Europe," said Andrea Picin, of the Max InstituteEvolutionary Anthropology Planck.
For the expert, this result "will change the perspective on the ability to adapt these primitive groups and question the monocentric model of dissemination of artistic innovation in the Auriñaciense".
Ju (EF, New Scientist.com, Nature.com, elpais.com)
