Pierced stick decorated with horses from La Madeleine

Bâton percé avec chevaux de La Madeleine. abri de La Madeleine, à Tursac. Abris sculptés de la Préhistoire.
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Pierced stick discovered by Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy during excavation of the Magdalenian layers (ca. 15,000 years BP) in the La Madeleine Shelter at Tursac (Dordogne). This stick, which was perhaps used to straighten sagaie points, was made from reindeer antler and then decorated with low-relief engravings. Each side depicts a line of horses with large heads and jaws.

A cast of this object is displayed in the Palaeolithic Gallery of the National Archaeology Museum - Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Length = 32.1 cm; Width = 6.2 cm; Thickness = 3.4 cm. MAN 8 162

© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Archéologie nationale) / Loïc Hamon

© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Archéologie nationale) / Loïc Hamon

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