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On this second day of the #EuropeanArchaeologyDays we focus on the bone industry of the Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic and the use of bones and antlers from hunted animals to make tools. Daniel Garrido Pimentel, Coordinator of the Prehistoric Caves of Cantabria, talks to us about the appearance of new tools for hunting, such as the javelin, and explains how it is made, how it is used and what its advantages are. Thanks to experimental archaeology we can see the different steps in the operational chain of javelins from the Magdalenian period, such as those from the Altamira cave. The experimental program and the study of the archaeological material carried out by Garrido have allowed us to identify and describe the marks reflected on the bone surface of the tools as well as the continuity, disappearance or incorporation of patterns in the Cantabrian sites studied. Their study entitled 'Typological classification and operational chain of bone instruments during the Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic: the Aitzbitarte IV and Bolinkoba model' has been published by the Ministry of Culture and Sport in Monograph 27 of the Altamira Museum. #JEA2021 #Altamira #BoneIndustry