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Finger Flutings in Gargas Cave, France
  • by
  • Kevin Sharpe
  • and
  • Leslie Van Gelder
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Methodology
  • Examine, re-examine, re-examine,…
  • Temporal order of units from overlays
  • No. fingers in unit
  • Left or right hand
  • 3-fingered width (→ age group, individual)
  • Finger tops (→ gender, individual)
  • Re-enactment (may → handedness, etc.)
  • Etc.
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Acknowledgements
  • Conservation Régionale de l’Archéologie, Toulouse, and the Mayor and Commune of Aventignan for permission to work in Gargas Cave.
  • Marie-Paule Abadie and Nicolas Ferrer of Gargas Cave, for discussions and guiding us in their caves.
  • Union Institute and University, for financial support through its faculty research grants.
  • Robert Bednarik, Jean Clottes, Francesco d’Errico, Sandor Gallus,* Michel Lorblanchet, Alexander Marshack,* and Hallam Movius Jr.,* for discussions and support over many years (* = deceased).