Animal bone fragment. Knuckle bone, with a clean break on one side. [MJD 16/05/2014]

Collection type: Object
Description: Animal bone fragment. Knuckle bone, with a clean break on one side. [MJD 16/05/2014]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Poitou-Charentes Charente de Gardes-les-Pontaroux La Quina
Person: Field collector Léon Henri-Martin; PRM source Léon Henri-Martin; PRM source Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Middle Palaeolithic
Date collected: before end 1923
Acquisition information: Donated: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Animal Bone
Dimensions: Length: max 95 mm, Depth: max 52 mm, Width: max 61 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.62.113
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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