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野牛舔昆虫咬
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野牛舔昆虫咬

Bison Licking Insect Bite

年代
约 2 万年前
收藏
National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
地点
法国、National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
材质
antler
尺寸
7 × 10.5(高 × 宽,多为厘米)
国家
法国
描绘对象
西伯利亚野牛
馆藏编号
MNP004.11.3
厚度 / 深度
2.2 厘米

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作品介绍

Bison Licking Insect Bite is a prehistoric carving from the Upper Paleolithic, found at Abri de la Madeleine near Tursac in Dordogne, France, the type-site of the Magdalenian culture, which produced many fine small carvings in antler or bone.

Created sometime between 20,000 and 12,000 BP (15,000 BP according to the museum), it was formerly in the Musee des Antiquites Nationales, St. Germain-en-Laye, but has been transferred to the expanded National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil that opened in 2004, not far from its findspot. It is a carved and engraved fragment of a spear-thrower made of reindeer antler. It depicts the 10.5 cm figure of a bison, of the now extinct species steppe wisent (Bison priscus) with its head turned around and showing its tongue extended. It is thought the spear-thrower was broken into roughly its present shape before the carving was made from the fragment, hence the need to show the turned-back head of the animal in order to fit the existing structure.

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