MP Gallery - Markings, Signs, Graphemes; y) tata100ochredplaquebds39

• Tata, Hungary, 101-120,000 BP; beveled, polished and ochred mammoth molar 'plaque' (Vértes, L. 1964. Tata: eine mittelpaläolithische Travertin Siedlung in Ungarn. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; confirmed Marshack, A. 1976. Some implications of the Paleolithic symbolic evidence for the origin of language. Current Anthropology 22:188-191.)

Photo © François Bordes. Bordes, F. 1968. The old stone age. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Figure 39.