M0015040: Representation of animals, Upper Palaeolithic period

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Representation of animals, Upper Palaeolithic period.

Reproductions of four photographs of representation of animals. Upper left: bovids sculpted on a block of limestone at Forneau du Diable, Bourdeilles, France. Upper right: oxen sculpted on a block of limestone at Forneau du Diable, Bourdeilles, France. Lower right: reindeer engraved on a cave wall at La Mouthe, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France. Lower left: head of cervid sculpted on limestone, in the museum at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France. From an unknown source.

August 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.6 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.

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