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1907.14.33.4

Bone implement fragment, a polisher. [NC 19/7/2019]

1907.14.33.4

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bone implement fragment, a polisher. [NC 19/7/2019]
Long description
Bone implement fragment, a polisher. [NC 19/7/2019]
Geographical reference
France
Europe > Western Europe > France
Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected
By 1907
Acquisition information
Donated: 1907
Materials and processes
Material Bone, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 89 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1907.14.33.4
Research and responses

This object was looked at by Abigail Desmond (DPhil student in Palaeolithic Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford) on 21/1/2017. The object was identified as a polisher. [NC 19/2/2017]

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, Polisher

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