Steatite is a soft, variously coloured and sometimes translucid mineral. It is found in mountainous areas, within metamorphic outcrops, and occasionally as river pebbles. Talcum powder is made by scratching and grinding it. During the Upper Palaeolithic, it was used to make pendants and figurines. Talcum powder was possibly used for tanning hides, but this cannot be definitely proved. Steatite items were found in the Balzi Rossi sites, at the frontier between Italy and France, but most of them were excavated long ago. We discuss the place of origin and stratigraphic position of each of them, and draw comparisons with similar artifacts found in other Italian and French sites. Working techniques, and specially perforating techniques, became m...
The aim of archaeology is the reconstruction of past cultures and the processes behind cultures. Con...
Flat and piercing tips made of polished rock and bone are typical of the Late Neolithic in the Weste...
Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean...
Steatite is a soft, variously coloured and sometimes translucid mineral. It is found in mountainous ...
International audienceSteatite is a soft, variously coloured and sometimes translucid mineral. It is...
The study of ornaments made out of minerals has concerned a quite abundant material : some 35,000 ob...
International audienceThe study of ornaments made out of minerals has concerned a quite abundant mat...
The paper offers an analysis of the employment of steatite in western Emilia during the Middle Neoli...
Multidisciplinary studies realized these last years about cave sites of Madonna dell'Arma, Arma dell...
International audienceMiddle Paleolithic local raw materials status: Technological and morphofunctio...
Les Planes (Lot-et-Garonne, France) has yielded a Middle Paleolithic assemblage including few objets...
International audienceThe Mousterian cultures in italian Liguria: Analysis of lithic material of thr...
A considerable number of steatite artefacts, mainly ornaments, have been found in the territory of t...
This paper introduces first results and comments concerning the Proto-Aurignacian lithic assemblage ...
The site of Riparo Dalmeri yielded numerous flint, bone, and shell artifacts, as well as faunal and ...
The aim of archaeology is the reconstruction of past cultures and the processes behind cultures. Con...
Flat and piercing tips made of polished rock and bone are typical of the Late Neolithic in the Weste...
Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean...
Steatite is a soft, variously coloured and sometimes translucid mineral. It is found in mountainous ...
International audienceSteatite is a soft, variously coloured and sometimes translucid mineral. It is...
The study of ornaments made out of minerals has concerned a quite abundant material : some 35,000 ob...
International audienceThe study of ornaments made out of minerals has concerned a quite abundant mat...
The paper offers an analysis of the employment of steatite in western Emilia during the Middle Neoli...
Multidisciplinary studies realized these last years about cave sites of Madonna dell'Arma, Arma dell...
International audienceMiddle Paleolithic local raw materials status: Technological and morphofunctio...
Les Planes (Lot-et-Garonne, France) has yielded a Middle Paleolithic assemblage including few objets...
International audienceThe Mousterian cultures in italian Liguria: Analysis of lithic material of thr...
A considerable number of steatite artefacts, mainly ornaments, have been found in the territory of t...
This paper introduces first results and comments concerning the Proto-Aurignacian lithic assemblage ...
The site of Riparo Dalmeri yielded numerous flint, bone, and shell artifacts, as well as faunal and ...
The aim of archaeology is the reconstruction of past cultures and the processes behind cultures. Con...
Flat and piercing tips made of polished rock and bone are typical of the Late Neolithic in the Weste...
Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean...