LMX002 - MUSEUM-CLASS ICE AGE RED DEER FOSSIL ANTLER RACK WITH PARTIAL SKULL FROM EUROPE

Product Description

ID

Cervus elephus (RED DEER)

FOUND

River Gravel Deposit - Central Europe

AGE

LATE PLEISTOCENE:  20,000 - 10,000 years ago

SIZE

28" across

CONDITION

ZERO REPAIR OR FABRICATION

NOTE

EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS LEVEL OF
COMPLETENESS WITH AMAZINGLY, NO
REPAIR!

PERFECT FOR A MUSEUM OR TO DISPLAY 
WITH UPPER PALEOLITHIC HUMAN TOOLS
SINCE PREHISTORIC HUMANS HEAVILY RELIED
ON THIS ANIMAL FOR SURVIVAL.

CHOICE PRESERVATION AND COLOR

Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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In all our travels in Europe, we have seen very little large specimens of fossil RED DEER and certainly, a piece of this level of completeness is a RARE FIND!  This is a partial skull with UNBROKEN antlers still attached.  Along with the reindeer, the Red Deer were crucial animails to the survival of prehistoric humans all across Europe.  These animals were one of the main food sources hunted by Upper Paleolithic Cro-Magnons.  Later, in the Neolithic and into the Bronze Age, ancient humans would use their antlers to fashion into hammers to work stone and bronze.

Very few museums show impressive fossils of the Red Deer despite their importance in the fossil record and in prehistoric human history.  This is a rare chance to acquire a specimen worthy of a museum exhibit.

Despite the numbers of prehistoric herds, the fossils of the Red Deer are abnormally absent from the fossil record.  Antler pieces are sometimes found that are much smaller than this large rack, but that is about it.  Perhaps prehistoric humans were so complete and resourceful in hunting that every remain was used, leaving little behind.  They were more delicate in skeletal anatomy than bison or rhino certainly, but their sheer numbers were so great, you would think the fossils would be as common as horse, but they are not. 

NO REPAIR AND NO FABRICATION. 

This would make a phenomenal display piece laying alongside  primitive hunting weapons of prehistoric man!  The color is natural and is a rich golden brown.  This is a rare fossil from a beast that is seldom found in Late Pleistocene fossil collections.  A great compliment to a primitive man stone tool and weapon collection as these animals lived alongside humans, played a vital role for resources in human survival during the last Ice Age and were hunted / revered by both Neanderthal man and Cro-Magnon man.