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2020-04-08 18:37:27   •   ID: 2170

Grimaldi Scraper from Laugerie haute

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This Endscraper, maid of fine Bergeracois flint, was once part of the Collection of Emile Rivière and sold by his two sons during an auction in 1922, at the Hotel Drouot in Paris. Later it was incorporated into the collection of F. Champagne.

Because such items, during the early days of Prehistoric Research were found in large quantities at the Laugerie Haute Rock Shelter in Les Eyzies, they were called Grattoirs de Laugerie-Haute (or Grattoirs de Grimaldi).

They are small and flat scrapers, made on elongated flakes or small blades. The lateral circumference of these tools is characterized by a continuous, direct, abrupt or semi-abrupt retouche.

At Laugerie, the artifacts were part of the Solutrean strata. D. Peyrony once suggested, that they were an evidence of an invasion of “Negroid Grimaldiens”. „Negroid“ (prognatic) skulls were supposed to have been detected in 1901 in the “Grotte des Enfantes" (Grotta dei Fanciulli / Balzi Rossi, Italia at the French border). About the Grimaldi -see here: 1600

Leaving such such crude interpretations aside, the implements are nowadays designated as Grattoirs de Laugerie-Haute. In the greater Aquitaine, they are only occasionally present in the Upper Solutrean.

Provenance: Collection Champagne (FR)