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2016.136.1

Piece of carved antler.

2016.136.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Piece of carved antler.
Long description
Piece of carved antler. The antler is carved with six barbs on opposite sides. The antler has been broken and fixed together. The tip is broken. The butt end is tapered. [MJD (Verve) 24/10/2016]
Geographical reference
France
Europe > Western Europe > France
Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine
Person
Field collector Henry Christy
Field collector Edouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet
PRM source Unknown Source
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian
Date collected
1863
Acquisition information
Found unentered: 24/10/2016
Materials and processes
Material Reindeer Antler Animal, Process Carved
Dimensions
Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 142 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2016.136.1
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]

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