M0015041: Incised representations of animals, Upper Palaeolithic period

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

Reproduction of four photographs of incised representations of animals. Upper left: red deer incised on a cave wall, Grotte des Combarelles, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France. Upper right: equid incised on a cave wall, Grotte des Combarelles, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France. Lower left: bison incised on a cave wall, Grotte de la Greze, Marquay, France. Lower left: cervid deeply and widely engraved on stone, Belcayne, 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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