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Engraved bone

14050-12050 BC

National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira

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.

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National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira

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