La espátula de Boppard (Boppard, Rheinland-Pfalz, Alemania) en su contexto europeo a finales del Paleolítico superior

Abstract

[EN] A spatula recovered from the Late Palaeolithic site of Boppard is manufactured on a fragment of the plantar face of a metatarsal bone of red deer (Cervus elaphus). Along its narrow side, the tool exhibits numerous parallel notches at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the bone. These are arranged in groups separated by notch-free areas of bone. Comparable bone tools are described, mainly from Cantabrian Spain, but also from France, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republik and Sweden. The best paralells for the Boppard specimen are, insofar as they are dated, known from the Later Upper Palaeolithic.