M0004680: Five illustrations of stone age injuries from Neolithic period
- Date:
- 7 July 1936
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/37/82
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Stone age injuries in Moodies's Palaeopathology
Description
A reproduction of a photograph of a print illustration of stone age injuries found in "Paleopathology : an introduction to the study of ancient evidences of disease" by Roy L. Moodie. The five illustrations show: a) human lumbar vertebra of a Neolithic man pierced by a a flint arrowhead b) lumbar vertebra of a Neolithic man with a flin arrowhead embedded in the visceral surface c) lumbar of vertebra of a young reindeer from Neolithic period, pierced by a flint arrowhead d) Human tibia with an ornamented flint arrowhead embedded under a considerable amount of callus and e) injured rib of wild bull by the arrow of a late stone age hunter.
Publication/Creation
7 July 1936
Physical description
1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm
Related material
Wellcome holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative.
Notes
Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
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