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1907.68.12

Cast of stone tool

1907.68.12

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Collection type
Object
Description
Cast of stone tool
Geographical reference
Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy
Liguria Imperia Ventimiglia Grimaldi Balzi Rossi [Baoussi-Rossi]
Person
Field collector Robert Ferris Damon
PRM source Robert Ferris Damon
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1907 Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic Solutrean
Date collected
Before 1907
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1907
Materials and processes
Material Plaster, Material Pigment, Process Cast, Process Painted
Dimensions
Depth: max 5 mm, Length 41 mm, Width: max 9 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1907.68.12
Research and responses

There are at least six sites from which the original object that this cast was produced from may have been collected. Baoussi-Rossi is in Italy, for details on the site please see M Sauters 1983 article 'A propos de la presentation de la sepulture double de la grotte des Enfants a m Baoussi-Roussi (Grimaldi, Italie)' (Bull. Soc. Preh. Fr. Vol. 80: pp 139-140). [MN 30/09/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Reproduction, Cast

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