New antler, shell, and tooth technology from La Grotte Du Placard (commune de vilhonneur, charente)

Abstract

The cave of Le Placard (Charente) has been explored by numerous generations of scholars over the past 150 years. These various explorations have exhumed a vast quantity of archeological material disseminated in public museums and private collections. Some have been the subject of detailed examination and published, but many are yet to be fully inventoried, let along thoroughly studied. This chapter provides an inventory and analysis of two such unpublished collections - curated at the Fine Arts Museum and at the Museum of the Archeological and Historical Society of the Charente - both located in Angoulême. The archeological material presented here includes various items of osseous industry, a pendant, and two shark teeth manuports.