M0015751: Examples of supposed Magdalenian writing on bony substances

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Examples of supposed Magdalenian writing on bony substances

Drawings of four examples of supposed Magdalenian writing: (top) bird bone from Grotte du Piccard, Charente; (middle) reindeer antler from Grotte de Combe-Guillier La Cave; (bottom left) ivory from La Madeleine Tursac, Dordogne; (bottom right) reindeer antler from La Madeleine, Tursac, Dordogne. The first example is from MacCurdy, George Grant: Human origins : a manual of prehistory, volume 1, London : D. Appleton and Company, 1924. The others are from Peyrony, Denis: Elements de prehistoire, Paris: 1948.

January 1957

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.