M0015751: Examples of supposed Magdalenian writing on bony substances

Date:
January 1957
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WT/D/1/20/1/141/5
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M0015751: Examples of supposed Magdalenian writing on bony substances. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

Description

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.

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January 1957

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1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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.

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