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1884.76.71

Fossil bead, strung with others [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/5/2005]

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1884.76.71

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Collection type
Object
Description
Fossil bead, strung with others [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/5/2005]
Geographical reference
France
Europe > Western Europe > France
Picardie Somme Amiens
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1874 Archaeological period: Palaeolithic, uncertain
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Fossil, Material Bead, Process Strung
Dimensions
Diameter: max 15 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.76.71
Research and responses

As part of the Fell funded project 'Characterising the World Archaeology collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum 2009-2010' this object was recategorized as archaeological (previously considered ethnographic). [MN 14/01/2010]

Associated publications
For a report on the analysis of the PRM's collection of such beads, see 'Critical Reassessment of Putative Acheulean Porosphaera globularis beads', by Solange Rigaud, Francesco d'Errico, Marian Vanhaeren, and Christian Neumann, in Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 36, no. 1 (January 2009), pp. 25-34. (Printout of PDF file in RDF: Researchers: Rigaud.) [JC 15 3 2019]

Search terms: Animalia, Plant, Specimen, Geology, Bead, Fossil, Unidentified Object

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