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Engraved bone
14050-12050 BC
National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira
Santillana del Mar (Cantabria, Spain), Spain
This flat bone - perhaps part of a scapula - has been worked to give the shape of a head of hind. Later, with a burin, the details of the head have been engraved to get a naturalistic image. The break in the area of the ears perhaps happened where there was a hole to hang the figure.
Details
- Title: Engraved bone
- Date Created: 14050-12050 BC
- Provenance: Cave of El Juyo (Cantabria, Spain)
- Type: Bone industry
- External Link: CERES
- Medium: Bone
- Rights: National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira
- Cultural Context: Lower Magdalenian
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