Head of a bison

Tête de bison. Abris sculptés de la Préhistoire.
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stone block depicting the head of a bison facing right with its tongue out. One notes the chignon sculpted in relief, the detail of the tip of the ear and the eye, as well as the muzzle turned slightly towards the viewer, a distinctive element of the Roc-aux-Sorciers sculptors. Stone block from the collapsed ceiling of the Taillebourg Cave, a sculpted shelter at Roc-aux-Sorciers (Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Vienne). Magdalenian block discovered in the rubble of the excavation carried out by Lucien Rousseau, by Suzanne de Saint-Mathurin in the 1950s, and currently on display in the Palaeolithic Gallery of the National Archaeology Museum Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

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© RMN - Grand Palais (musée d'Archéologie nationale) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

© RMN - Grand Palais (musée d'Archéologie nationale) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

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