Examples of supposed Magdalenian writing on bony substances.

Top: bird bone from Grotte du Piccard, Charente. (After Piette and G.G. MacCurdy, Human Origins, New York, 1924, volume 1, page 200, figure 179.) Middle: reindeer antler from Grotte de Combe-Guillier La Cave (hot). (After Vire and D. Peyrony, Elements de Prehistorire, 1948, page 109, figure 72.) Bottom left: ivory from La Madeleine Tursac, Dordogne. (After D. Perony, Elements de Prehistoire, 1948, page 109, Figure 72.) Bottom right reindeer antler from La Madeleine, Tursac, Dordogne. (After Lartet and christy and D. Peyrony, Elements de Prehistoire, 1948, page 109, figure 72.)