Alexander Marshack, 86, Is Dead; Studied Stone Age Innovations
NY Times
Alexander Marshack, a self-taught anthropological researcher who first interpreted certain Stone Age artifacts as primitive calendars, advancing the notion that prehistoric man was more inventive than previously thought, died on Dec. 20 at the Jewish Home and Hospital in Manhattan. He was 86 and lived in Manhattan.
The cause was heart failure, said his wife, Elaine.
In the 1960’s, using novel scientific techniques, Mr. Marshack analyzed small incisions in plaques of bone, in southwest France, which dated from the Paleolithic Period, about 30,000 years ago, in the latter part of the last ice age.
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