Skeleton of the Magdalenian Girl, an early modern human from the Magdalenian period, discovered in the Cap Blanc rock shelter
Born
c. 13000–11000 BC
Died
c. 13000–11000 BC (age 25–35)
Dordogne region, modern France
Burial place
Cap Blanc rock shelter
Other names
Magdalenian Woman
Known for
impacted wisdom teeth
Height
156 cm (5 ft 1+1⁄2 in)[1]
Hominin fossil found in Dordogne, France
"Magdalenian Girl" or "Magdalenian Woman" (French: Femme magdalénienne)[2][3] is the common name for a human skeleton, dated to the boundary between the Upper Paleolithic and the early Mesolithic, ca. 15,000 to 13,000 years old, in the Magdalenian period. The remains were discovered in 1911 in the Dordogne region of southwestern France in a limestone cave known as the Cap Blanc rock shelter.[4]
The find was made when a workman drove a pickaxe into the cliff face in the rock shelter, shattering the skull.[5] It is the most complete Upper Paleolithic skeleton in Northern Europe.
When Magdalenian Girl was acquired in 1926 for the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois by Henry Field, then curator of Physical Anthropology, it was hailed as one of the most significant acquisitions the museum ever made. On the first day the precious specimen was exhibited, tens of thousands of visitors flocked to the museum to see it.
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