M0015039: Representation of animals and anthropomorphs, Upper Palaeolithic period

Date:
August 1956
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/134/26
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About this work

Also known as

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

Description

Reproductions of four photographs of representation of animals and anthropomorphs, Upper left: part of a frieze of horses sculpted in rock at Cap Blanc rock shelter, Marquay, France. Upper right: anthropomorphs engraved on a piece of stone, Grotte de la Roche. Lower left: lioness and cervid incised on cave wall, Grotte des Combarelles, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France. Lower right: mammoth incised on cave wall, Grotte des Combarelles, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France. From an unknown source.

Publication/Creation

August 1956

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.6 cm

Notes

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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