Bone Point Fragment (NHMW-PRAE-49.545)

3D Model

3D scan of a 78,7 mm long fragment of the distal (upper) part of a bone point. It originated from layer 4 of the Willendorf II site in the Wachau Region in Lower Austria. It constitutes one of the numerous osseous artefacts found at the same site as the Venus of Willendorf (NHMW-Prae 44.686).

This object was digitized for the go!digital 3.0 project bITEM (Beyond the Item - Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in Museums and beyond).

Object: Bone point (after Hahn, 1993)

Inventory number: NHMW-PRAE-49.545

Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Prehistory Department, Stone Age Coll. (curator: Caroline Posch)

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Scanned and edited by Anna Haider, Viola Winkler and Nikola Brodtmann (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.