ir prototypeswere the cornerstones of the portals of civilization; their discovery was the opensesame to those inventions to which man owes his present physical ameliora-tions. Whether it were apes or men that splintered the miocene flints of Thenay,*we can not doubt that when primitive man began… … Ill STONES. * The Abbe Bourgeois showed split flints from the miocene at Brussels, in 1873. THE AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST. 89 POLISHERS. The stone age arti-san had three generalmodes of fabricating histools and ornaments.Having discovered astone suitable for hispurpose, often one hav-ing a natural…
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