Upper Palaeolithic tools 18 - 30,000 years old


L-R: a) Bone used to make needle blanks. b) Bone needle. c & d) Harpoon head and Barbed Point carved from antler. e & f) Two heads carved in mammoth ivory. All dating back to between 18,000 and 30,000 years old.


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