Surface analysis of an eagle talon from Krapina

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Radovčić, Davorka, Birarda, Giovanni, Sršen, Ankica Oros, Vaccari, Lisa, Radovčić, Jakov, Frayer, David W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Research 2020
• Subjects: Archaeology; Evolution; Ochre; Talon; White-tailed eagle
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30537; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62938-4

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The Krapina white-tailed eagle talons represent a kind of jewelry worn by Krapina Neandertals some 130,000 years ago. New inspection of one Krapina talon (386.1) revealed a fiber, sealed by a thin silicate coating,...