M0004680: Five illustrations of stone age injuries from Neolithic period

Date:
7 July 1936
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WT/D/1/20/1/37/82
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M0004680: Five illustrations of stone age injuries from Neolithic period. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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

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Wellcome holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative.

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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.

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