{"id":"PALART425-001","label":"La Madeleine chevron fragment","people_or_site":"La Madeleine (Tursac)","country_current":"France","historic_region":"Dordogne / Tursac; Magdalenian attribution","macroregion":"Europe / Southwest France","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"Thin, perforated bone fragment, broken across the body; 3.5 × 1.1 × 0.3 cm.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"bm_palart_425","source_type":"british_museum_object","source_url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_Palart-425?selectedImageId=694933001","page_or_plate":"British Museum collection object Palart.425","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Abri de la Madeleine, Tursac, Dordogne; the British Museum record names the findspot but provides no coordinates.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Magdalenian takes its name from this shelter under the cliff above the Vézère, the last great culture of Ice Age Europe. This thin strip of bone, three and a half centimetres long, came from it. Two aligned runs of multi-line chevrons were cut across it, and the start of a third; the body they were cut into broke away long ago, leaving the pattern and the perforation standing beside the fracture.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 15,000–9000 BC","date_qualification":"Broad Magdalenian cultural attribution; object not directly dated.","date_basis":"cultural_phase","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"British Museum, Palart.425 collection record (Magdalenian attribution)","sources":[{"citation":"British Museum, collection object Palart.425: decorated Magdalenian bone pendant fragment, excavated by Henry Christy and Édouard Lartet at La Madeleine (Tursac) in 1863","url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_Palart-425?selectedImageId=694933001"}],"source_citations":"British Museum, collection object Palart.425: decorated Magdalenian bone pendant fragment, excavated by Henry Christy and Édouard Lartet at La Madeleine (Tursac) in 1863","source_display":"British Museum, collection object Palart.425: decorated Magdalenian bone pendant fragment, excavated by Henry Christy and Édouard Lartet at La Madeleine (Tursac) in 1863","date_citation_display":"British Museum, Palart.425 collection record (Magdalenian attribution)","object_display":"Thin, perforated bone fragment, broken across the body; 3.5 × 1.1 × 0.3 cm.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"madeleine","display_name":"La Madeleine chevron fragment","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PALART425-001.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PALART425-001_thumb.jpg","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (Palart.425)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_Palart-425?selectedImageId=694933001","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The perforated, chevron-marked bone fragment from La Madeleine.","last_modified":"2026-09-13"},"slug":"palart425-001-la-madeleine-tursac"}