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The article reports on the shell wind musical instrument made by a member of the Paleolithic Magdalenian culture from a sea snail shell. Topics covered include the discovery of the musical instrument in Marsoulas Cave in France's Pyrenees Mountains in 1931, the findings in the reexamination of the shell by a team of researchers directed by Carole Fritz and the resonant notes produced by a musicologist using the instrument.

Focuses on the efforts of the author in proving the claim of French archaeologist Robert Arambourou that the Duruthy rock shelter served as a major base camp for Magdalenian hunter bands during the last ice-age. Aim to establish the seasonal hunting pattern of ice-age men in the Pyrenean region; Deposits found at the excavation site; Description of the area, fauna, and soil strata during the last ice-age.

The article discusses research by archaeologists Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel González Morales, reported in the "Journal of Archaeological Science," on the discovery of a fossil Magdalenian woman of the Upper Paleolithic period, named the Red Lady, in the El Mirón cave in northern Spain. It says the fossil's arrangement indicates she had a relatively elaborate burial. Topics include further research on the site, reported in the same journal, on topics including pollen and cave art.

The article offers brief information on the Red Lady of El Mirón, the remains of a prehistoric woman found in northern Spain, dealing with topics including how the remains were found in the El Mirón Cave in Spain, how the woman was a Magdalenian and rock carvings found near the remains.

The article reports on an archaeological discovery associated with fifteen thousand years old engraved stone art of Magdalenian culture in Jersey, Channel Island; a team of British archaeologists have found this ice age art conducting excavation work in Jersey.

The article discusses research published in the "Journal of Human Evolution" on possible ritual cannibalism during the Magdalenian period based on an analysis of a 14,700-year-old human remains from Gough's Cave in Somerset, England.

The article discusses evidence of ritualistic cannibalism found at an archaeological site called Gough's Cave in England. Anthropologist Silvia Bello and her team found human tooth marks and marks from stone tools on human remains in the cave, which Bello says provides evidence of cannibalistic burial practices. Details on the Magdalenian culture and on other excavations at the Gough's Cave site are presented.