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  2. Magdalenian - Wikipedia

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    Magdalenian people dwelt in tents such as this one of Pincevent (France) that dates to 12,000 years ago. [6] Debate continues about the nature of the earliest Magdalenian assemblages, and it remains questionable whether the Badegoulian culture is the earliest phase of Magdalenian culture.

  3. Magdalenian Girl - Wikipedia

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    156 cm (5 ft 1 + 1⁄2 in) [1] " 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 ...

  4. Creswellian culture - Wikipedia

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    The Creswellian is a British Upper Palaeolithic culture named after the type site of Creswell Crags in Derbyshire by Dorothy Garrod in 1926. [3] It is also known as the British Late Magdalenian. [4] According to Andreas Maier: "In current research, the Creswellian and Hamburgian are considered to be independent but closely related entities ...

  5. Magdalene Laundries in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Irish Magdalene Laundry, c. early 1900s. The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, [1] which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house "fallen women", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in ...

  6. Mary Magdalene - Wikipedia

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    Mary Magdalene[a] (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to His crucifixion and resurrection. [1] She is mentioned by name twelve times in the canonical gospels, more than most of the ...

  7. Marsoulas Cave - Wikipedia

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    Marsoulas Cave. /  43.10306°N 0.98611°E  / 43.10306; 0.98611. The Marsoulas Cave in southwestern France, near Marsoulas in the Haute-Garonne, [ 1] is a small cave notable for its archaeological wealth, including Paleolithic cave paintings and ornaments from the Magdalenian. [ 2] It consists of a straight gallery about 100 m (330 ft ...

  8. Pincevent - Wikipedia

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    Pincevent. Coordinates: 48°22′5″N 2°53′40″E. Pincevent is an archaeological site in the commune of La Grande-Paroisse in France, near the town of Montereau-Fault-Yonne (Seine-et-Marne). It was excavated from 1964 onward by a team of the Centre des Recherches Préhistoriques of the University of Paris, led by André Leroi-Gourhan.

  9. Red Lady of El Mirón - Wikipedia

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    The Red Lady of El Mirón is a skeleton belonging to a woman of Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) found at El Mirón Cave in eastern Cantabria, Spain.