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1884.124.45

Stone tool or weapon


1884.124.45

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool or weapon
Geographical reference
Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic, uncertain
Date collected
1863
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 7 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Length: max 46 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.124.45 PR Cat other PR nos: ?1592
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, Flake