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Author Aurignacian toolmakers

Date of creation c. 32,000 BCE

Abri Cellier Notched Bones

Two bone fragments from the Abri Cellier rock shelter in the Dordogne, France, each carved along one edge with a long, regular series of parallel notches. Excavated in 1927 by the Logan Museum of Anthropology's George Collie, Abri Cellier is one of several Aurignacian sites in southwest France — alongside Abri Blanchard and La Marche — whose notched bones have been read as early notational or tallying sequences.

Abri Cellier Notched Bones

Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College

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