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Author Late Magdalenian engravers

Date of creation c. 12,000 BP

The Taï Plaque

An engraved bovine rib fragment from the Grotte du Taï, France, bearing over a thousand tiny incisions on one face — among the densest mark-sequences known from the end of the Upper Palaeolithic, and, like the notched bones of Abri Cellier and La Marche, read within the broader debate over Palaeolithic notational systems.

The Taï Plaque

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

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