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1884.122.525

Fragment of a Solutrean laurel leaf point.

1884.122.525

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Collection type
Object
Description
Fragment of a Solutrean laurel leaf point.
Geographical reference
France
Europe > Western Europe > France
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic Solutrean
Date collected
1863
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 10 mm, Width: max 43 mm, Length: max 53 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.122.525 PR Cat other PR nos: 1591
Research and responses

Laugerie Haute: A rock shelter in the Vézère Valley near Les Eyzies Dordogne France which has yielded the richest Upper Palaeolithic sequence ever recorded ... [W Bray and D Trump, Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology, 1982 : 139] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

For details on the work undertaken by Henry Christy and Édouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet at this site and elsewhere in the south of France see their 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. [MN 06/10/2009]

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