Las varillas decoradas magdalenienses de Ezkuzta (País Vasco)

Abstract

In the excavation of Ezkuzta’s cave (Azpeitia/Guipuzcoa; in northeastern Cantabrian corridor) three made smoothed rods (french. baguettes demi-rondes) of cervidae’s antler (reindeer?) were found: two completes and fragments of the third one. His formulae of decoration correspond with some of Isturitz and of other sites of the french Pyrenees: they are curvilinear or spiraliform ruts in two of them and fine lines grouped in faeces in other one. These themes are considered to be cultural markers of the Pyrenean middle Magdalenien, between aprox. 14500 and 13300 years BP.