Cast of arrow-head.

Collection type: Object
Description: Cast of arrow-head.
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine
Person: Maker Museum of St. Germain-en-Laye; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1956 Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian
Date collected: By 1956
Acquisition information: Donated: 1956
Materials and processes: Material Plaster, Material Pigment, Process Cast, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length: max 152 mm, Width: max 14 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1956.2.4 Other numbers: 1025
Research and responses: The original tusk that this cast was made from appears in B. Plate IX figure 4 in Henry Christy and Édouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet, 1875 volume [also published with Thomas Rupert Jones], Reliquiae aquitanicae: Being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Pèrigord and the adjoining provinces of Southern France [published in London by Williams & Norgat]. This book can be accessed online at http://www.archive.org/details/reliquiaeaquitan00lartuoft. [MJD 05/02/2014]

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