No such technological, and presumably cultural, uniformity ever occurred again during the late Ice Age. A remarkable continuity in Aurignacian technological practices extended over a distance of more than twenty-five hundred miles (around four thousand kilometers), from the Near East to northwestern Spain and as far north as England. Even in her day, when much less was known about the late Ice Age, the wide distribution of Aurignacian sites through Europe was in noticeable contrast to the distribution of the sites of later Cro-Magnon societies. Stone tool industry and artistic tradition of Upper Paleolithic Europe, named after the village of Aurignac in southern France where the tradition was first identified. She boldly argued that the Aurignacians were the first modern humans to migrate into Europe, where they displaced the Neanderthals. Before World War II, Dorothy Garrod identified Aurignacian occupation levels at Mugharet el-Wad, on Mount Carmel in the Near East. People fabricating similar artifacts, including split-based points, settled over an enormous area of Europe, from Kostenki in the east to the Atlantic in the west. ![]() Blades and burins were made by the punch technique and came in several sizes. Flakes were retouched to make nosed scrapers, carinate (ridged) scrapers, and end scrapers. ![]() "Unlike many such groupings, the Aurignacian is no local culture confiend solely to southwest France. The Aurignacian differs from other Upper Paleolithic industries mainly in a preponderance of stone flake tools rather than blades.
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