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The La Marche Antler Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Alexander Marshack and
Francesco d'Errico
Alexander Marshack
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and EthnologyHarvard University11 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Francesco d'Errico
Affiliation:
UMR 9933 of the CNRSInstitut du QuaternaireAvenue des Facultès 33405 Talence, France
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Abstract

In the last issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal (Vol. 5:2, October 1995) Francesco d'Errico presented a new analysis of the La Marche antler, one of the most intriguing examples of Palaeolithic ‘notation’. That article has stimulated the following response from Alexander Marshack, who for many years has been a leading researcher in this field. On p. 111 below, Francesco d'Errico replies to Marshack's critique.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , April 1996, pp. 99 - 117
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1996

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