Nucleus (uncertain)
EU464
From: France | Dordogne (uncertain) | Roches de Sergeac
Curatorial Section: European
| Object Number | EU464 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Aurignacian (uncertain) |
| Provenience | France | Dordogne (uncertain) | Roches de Sergeac |
| Period | Aurignacian (uncertain) |
| Section | European |
| Materials | Flint |
| Description | Original Card: Flint Object - Nucleus or nucleiform grattoir; if the latter, heavy and crude. France. Upper Palaeolithic. Revised Card: Flint Block - Probably served as a nucleus and later as scraper-possibly also as large burin. Thick, heavy. Three-sided. White patination. France, probably Dordogne, Roches de Sergeac. Probably Aurignacian. |
| Height | 5.2 cm |
| Length | 11.6 cm |
| Width | 5.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Louis Didon, 1913 |
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