- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Horse tooth
- Geographical reference
- Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil Laugerie Haute
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Henry Christy
- Field collector Edouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- 1863
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Horse Tooth Animal
- Dimensions
- Width: max 33 mm, Length: max 46 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.122.555
- Research and responses
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]
Search terms: Tool, Animalia, Animal Part
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