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Object Number 72-20-40/6888
Display Title Bone spear point
Descriptions
Inventory Description Organic, bone, point, incised lines, barbed edges
Classification
  • Point
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Europe / France / Dordogne / <County> / Tursac / La Madeleine
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 1.8 x 13.3 x 1.1 cm (11/16 x 5 1/4 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 6888
Provenance
Collector Charles Lartet (1859)
Donor Donated by Museum of Comparative Zoology (1872)

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