Fragment of animal bone showing cut marks. [RH [OPS Move] 8/5/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Fragment of animal bone showing cut marks. [RH [OPS Move] 8/5/2017]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Poitou-Charentes Charente de Gardes-les-Pontaroux La Quina Trench B3
Person: Field collector Léon Henri-Martin; PRM source Léon Henri-Martin; PRM source Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic
Date collected: before end 1923
Acquisition information: Donated: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Animal Bone, Process Cutwork
Dimensions: Width: max 34 mm, Length: max 88 mm, Depth: max 18 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.62.72
Research and responses: Please note that the Dr Henri-Martin mentioned in primary documentation is not Germaine Henri-Martin (1902-1975) but her father Léon Henri-Martin (1864-1936), as indicated by the "excavated by himself" in the Accession Book entry. Germaine Henri-Martin continued to work at La Quina after her fathers death and was also associated with Dorothy Anne Elizabeth Garrod. For further information on all three individuals please see Biographies. For details on some of Léon Henri-Martin's work at La Quina see: Henri-Martin, L. 1906. Ossements utilisés par l'homme moustérien de la station de la Quina, Charente. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française Vol. 3, pp. 194-198. Further information on both Henri-Martins can be found in Biographies. [MN 02/10/2009]

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