Department of Anthropology photograph collection relating to Paleolithic sites
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 160, USNM ACC 124072
name: label: Collector
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
label: Collector
content: Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
label: Collector
content: Russell, James Townsend
place: label: Place
content: England
label: Place
content: Java
label: Place
content: France
topic: label: Topic
content: Paleolithic period -- France
label: Topic
content: Paleolithic period -- England
creator: label: Collector
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Prints (copy prints)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1933
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: This collection was found in the office of Smithsonian anthropologist Gus Van Beek, and transferred to the National Anthropological Archives, 1979. It was accessioned by the Department of Anthropology in 1933 (accession 124072).
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.160
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs documenting archeological sites and diagrams of excavations.  Depicted Paleolithic archeological sites include: Pithecanthropus site in Trinil, Java; Piltdown site in Suffolk (or Sussex), England; Heidelberg site in Heidelberg, Germany; Moustier site in Dordogne, France; La Chapelle aux Saints site in Coreze, France; La Quina sitein Charante, France; Galilee Skull site on the Sea of Galilee; Laugerie Haute in Dordogne, France; and La Madeleine in Dordogne, France.  The prints were made by the Smithsonian laboratory for the Synoptic Series in the Old World Archeological exhibits, from photographs furnished by Ales Hrdlicka and J. Townsend Russell.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: This collection has been relocated from Photo Lot 79-38.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Originals for some of these drawings and photographs as well as additional drawings and photographs of Paleolithic sites can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 157 and the Ales Hrdlicka papers.