1908.36.14

Collection type

Object

Description

Reindeer bone or horn tool, flattened and incised at one end. [El.B 20/10/2011]

Long description

Reindeer bone or horn tool, flattened and incised at one end. Was broken into two pieces and glued back together again, presumably before it came into the museum since the Pre-PRM label is pasted over the joint. [El.B 20/10/2011]

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 Henry Balfour

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1863 Archaeological period: Palaeolithic

Date collected

1863

Acquisition information

Donated: 1908

Materials and processes

Material Reindeer Antler Animal, Material Reindeer Bone Animal, Process Carved, Process Incised

Dimensions

Width: max 11 mm, Length: max 134 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1908.36.14

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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